It's all about everyday

I had a course, project management, with Ashley last semester. I love her passion and ideas. I've always wondering how can be so many interesting ideas pop up in her mind since we pretty much have a similar background, undergraduate major has nothing to do with IDD&E, get involved in this field only two years. Her notebook gave me the answer I think. It all about everyday, every detail in life. This reminds me a famous old saying in China, the palest ink is way better than the best memory. And this is exactly the quality that an instructional designer needs to has. Keep record of everyday, change something, create something, and learn from your surrounding. Because our job is to create better stuff that allow people to learn better.

Model Update

Web 2.0 and Model Update

Obviously the whole globe is entering an OPEN era of internet. With more web 2.0 tools and open source applications used in educational area, web-based ISD model becomes a new trend of instructional material to be applied in the process of learning. It is more like an open system for learners to open their mind to no matter input or output what they get within the entire system.

For the update of my model,
Orientation
I considered my model is prescriptive since this model is used to describe how the interns in ET project are able to clarify their teaching objectives in order to achieve better teaching outcome such as help students to pass some standard English tests.

Knowledge Structure
My model will be a circle includes basically two areas, identify the problem and solve the problem. The process of ADDIE will be implemented within the two areas from identify to solve. And last reach the best solution for the stated problem.

Expertise Level
Novice. The model is designed for interns, mostly college students who are interested in educational fields and passionate about being a instructor to help non-native English speaker learning English. Therefore, my model is focuses on novice.

Context
NGO - AIESEC - ET Program - Interns

Level
My model is used within the Interns department of ET program. Thus the model can be broke down into several units which can be modified in order to accommodate different steps.

I am still working on the diagrams to make it more understandable. Making it into a circle is not easy for sure...but I am making progress of the details right now.

Web Conference with Patrick

It was thrilled to have a teleconference with Patrick from Price Waterhouse Cooper (PWC). What makes more excited is Patrick was an international student who is now working in American industry. He truly introduced us tons of useful information of working in evaluation and assessment department in a leading enterprise. As an international student, I am always confused of how to be chose and accepted in a American company. PWC is a worldwide cooperation building relationships that create value for business. Students always feel proud entering PWC after they graduated in China. I am interested in technology-based learning, and am willing to working in industry after I finished my study. Completing my master's study makes me considering to learn more about evaluation and analysis. Patrick's talk encouraged me to pursue my dream in order to work well with different experts from different background.

As for my ISD model for this semester, I am going to use Romi's FEA model to create my since my case is more focuses on Front-End-Analysis. With the possible causes and possible solutions from my analysis, my model will be more like a circle on instead of with arrows and squares.

ID Model Update

This post will answer Questions on the handout in order to help better understanding my model.

The goal of my model is clarifying the objectives for the interns in ET program to achieve better teaching outcomes when they are teaching English in a foreign country.
My supa-system goals:
More foreign school principals are willing to consider absorbing foreign teachers (with or without previous teaching experiences) to teach English in their school.
Method of delivery:
For my ID model, a workshop will be created including cross-culture knowledge introduction, former interns' experiences (case study), as well as a peer support group will be built in order to deliver this model to more interns or potential interns.
Merrill's First Principle will be my method of instruction.

I am still working on the sketch of my model. I will keep posting.

Status report

System

ET (Educational Traineeship) is my system.
Interns who participate in the ET program is my subsystem.
NGO AIESEC (Association Internationale des Étudiants en Sciences Économiques et Commerciales) as an organization is my supersystem.

Communication Channels

ET program coordinator <-->Interns
Interns <--> School teachers in another country

Context

The context of this model is educational. It will be implemented within the ET program interns who are college students. The assumption of my model is that some of the interns in ET program fail in their academics due to the culture adaption issues and the program coordinator is willing to provide more information and cross-culture knowledge before he/she send interns to other countries. The program manager is the key factor for the diffusion of the workshop. With the support of the manager, more resources and budget I would have for the implementation of the model.

Role

In my model, the developer is the ET program coordinator. This is the one who is in charge of sending those interns to another country for studying. He/She decided when and where those interns is going to study.

Intended Audiences

The intended audience is the program manager. ET program coordinator will present the model to the manager in order to have the budget of conducting his plan of creating a intercultural communication workshop. In this way, program coordinator is able to implement the model into the real case before sending interns abroad.

Purpose

Some of the interns who are attending the ET program studying abroad fail in their academics due to multi-culture adaption. This model is used to help interns who are choosing participate in ET program have better psychological preparation for the future problems they are going to encounter in a foreign country. Besides, this model is also used to introduce more cross-culture knowledges to interns in the ET program.

Pressing Issues

The issues that I am facing is time constraints. Since the head office of this program locates in China, time difference will be an issue of communicating with people in the program.

Diffusion - What I learn from the game

This class makes me starting looking back of the days before I came to US. I've always served as a class monitor or student representative when I was in college and high school. It is always my job to diffuse the latest news from my teacher or college advisor to my classmates. And for sure deliver what my classmates desired to my upper level. But I've never carefully realized how it is essential and indispensable to accomplish a "job".

I enjoyed the game so much. We misunderstood the chart listing AWARENESS, INTEREST, and TRIAL/APPRASIAL first.  This direct led to the waste of several weeks due to the inappropriate pick of personal information. But what we came across later that why can't we talk to everyone working in school before doing anything since each one of them involved in this new tutoring program if the program is adopted. In fact, what our objective is to let them adopt this new tutoring program. With the basic knowledge and awareness of the program, it will be easier to implement other activities. Besides, it doesn't take long to talk to everyone compare to some weeks might be wasted if you didn't talk to the right person. This is what of the most importance I learned from this game. Someone might be consider it's a waste of time since you could choose better strategies to achieve better outcomes. But from my perspective, getting everyone's attention will be my first thing to do for DIFFUSION.