ASSIGNMENT
1. Identify and describe the key barriers to success involved in achieving the goal stated in the representative problem above.
2. Identify and describe the key factors that are likely to become part of an implementation plan for this problem situation; include in the description of each key factor any recurrent and non-recurrent tasks likely to be involved.
3. Indicate and describe the relationships among the key factors that have been identified.
4. Indicate what things are likely to change in the period involved in implementing
the plan.
5. Create an annotated concept map that reflects the things indicated in response to
the previous four tasks.
6. Reflect on your responses and your concept map, and then describe the assumptions you have made and what resources would be required to implement the solution you have in mind.
Links
The Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) website has extensive resources for instructors and the use of technology to support instruction—www.aect.org
The American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) website has extensive resources for professional trainers—www.astd.org
The International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI) website has extensive resources pertaining to training and performance improvement—www.ispi.org
Other Resources
The Association for Psychological Science website with many resources pertaining to various disciplines within psychology, including educational psychology—http://psych.hanover.edu/APS/teaching.html childstudy.net website with extensive treatment of classic theories of child development—http://childstudy. net/tutorial.php
K. H. Grobman’s website for resources and links pertaining to developmental psychology—www.devpsy.org/sitemap.html
References
Gagné, R. M. (1985). The conditions of learning (4th ed.). New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.
Gagné, R. M., & Merrill, M. D. (1990). Integrative goals for instructional design. Educational Technology
Research and Development, 38(1), 23–30
