Volume 1
Issue 4
Dec.01,2000
In this Issue:
The End of A Semester: Program Leader's Notes
Learning at a Distance: Barry W. Shields
Interview with Recent IS Alumni: John Parker
Interview: International Students' Perspectives on IS @ FSU
AECT Conference: Denver -- FSU Well Represented
SAChat -- A Look At Things To Come
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Upcoming Articles: January 2001
* Dr. Marcy P. Driscoll, Department Chair, takes a look at the changes in the IS Program.
* Meet newest faculty member, Dr. Abbas Darabi
* Continued news from:
- current IS Distance Learning students
- current International students
* Introducing the Peer-Reviewed Journal of the IS@FSU Program
Credits:
The goal of the ISUnion project is to develop a virtual community of dialogue among Instructional Systems alumni, faculty and students of the Florida State University.
...State of Florida
...College of Education...Educational Research Department
...and You!
Dr. W. James Popham
Late Wednesday afternoon on November 8th, Dr. James Popham spoke to the students and faculty of the Educational Research Department. His topic, High Stakes Testing and its Implications in the State of Florida.
Popham was in town for the Florida Educational Research Association (FERA) Annual Conference, where he presented on Measurement Maxims for Florida Educators. Dr. Popham, a UCLA Emeritus Professor, is well-known in the arena of high stakes testing.
The community of education professional are strongly encouraged to become better educated in the use, as well as aware of the misuse of standardized tests to measure the educational quality of schools in the State of Florida.
FULL STORYIS @ FSU
Barry W. Shields
The FSU ODL program focuses on instructional design as an emerging profession. It's an excellent foundational program. It's flexible, includes an appropriate amount of the right content, and it's very interactive. The program is allowing me to become a thought leader within NCR as we move closer to becoming an organization that has all business units following our tailored course development model.
Florida State has taken a highly respected Instructional Systems program, combined it with the Internet, and delivered instruction to students in many different geographical areas. That's exactly what we do at NCR University. We offer the same open learning environment for our students that the ODL program offers. One of the reasons I chose FSU is because the ODL mission is so similar to the NCR University mission. FULL STORY
Fall 2000
Program Leader's Notes
John M. Keller
Without a doubt, there has been more program development activity this semester than in any of the other 16 years that I have been at Florida State University. Highlights of this activity are
- the development of this electronic newsletter together with the forum, and the publication series,
- the continued development of our portfolio requirement for the masters comprehensive examination, and
- the growth of our distance learning program in open and distance learning.
Evaluation Specialist
Intel Corporation
Story by Shawn TewksburyAs an "Evaluation Specialist" in a training department at Intel Corporation, John Parker (1999) talks about the role of a Performance Technologist in a "still tied to training" world. "I view myself as an evaluator and performance consultant. My job is to provide program, system, and/or course evaluation products and services to different internal customers. I think it is important to think beyond the role of an evaluator and look at determining needs, their causes, and possible solutions."
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