Section 5: Trends and Issues in Various Settings

Section 5 of your textbook focuses on trends and issues where instructional designers are likely to become employed to include business and industry, the military, the medical field, P-12 education, and higher education. This week's posting will focus primarily on military and education; however, I encourage you to read the chapter in the medical field as it's important to be aware of changes going on outside of education.

• Chapter 18 discusses instructional design in business and industry. Give an example of rapid prototyping and discuss how this could be used in education.

Rapid prototyping are models that are used during the start up process when designing a product. This process allows customer to be involved in the beginning development. Rapid prototyping help with increasing communication and decrease cost and time.  This can be used in education. For example if a district decided to invest in a new curriculum or a new technology, they can form a small prototyping group to get opinions from teachers to make sure product is effective and enhancing learning.

• Chapter 19 discusses instructional design opportunities in military education and training environments. Pretend you are hired as a consultant for the military. They want to use technology in its training, but electronic access is not always available. Using the Full Spectrum diagram, what alternatives could you suggest for a successful program?

Depending on the type of training, I believe military training should be hands on. If it was combat training for military medical personal, I would incorporate role playing to make the training visual and interactive. Also you can never go wrong with traditional paper and pen training. I would also show videos to make training more real life and hands on.

• GSTE. Outline a staff development activity that will introduce both methodologies to your colleagues.

• Navigating through the ranks of a faculty member in higher education can be tricky. A good institution has support for its faculty and provides faculty development opportunities to grow and learn. Research three different university offices for faculty development. Answer the following questions for each office:

University	Southern Methodist University-SMU	University of North Texas at Dallas	Clark Atlanta University
What are the different names used for faculty development?	Professional Development-Develop You	Training and Development and Certification Programs for supervisory positions	Organizational   Development
What division is it under?	Human Resource	Client Services- Business Service Center	Departments-Title II-Programs
What services does it offer?	Professional Development Workshops Skill building	- provide a variety of training and educational activities, classes, and seminars for University faculty and staff, which assists our constituents in improving institutional effectiveness	Training and development opportunities. Training areas of focus: 1. Leadership and Management 2. Institutional Advancement 3. Enrollment Management 4. Human Resources 5. Business and Fiscal Affairs 6. Process Improvement 7. Compliance
How often are programs given and what specifically are they?	Training offered monthly both morning and evening hour Calendar are on the website for schedule training s http://smu.edu/hr/develop/PDW/pdw.asp	Training offered monthly both morning and evening Calendar are on the website for schedule training http://bsc.untsystem.edu/training-development	http://www.cau.edu/Departments_TitleIII_Programs_orgdevelpment.aspx