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.

Week 3 - What Need Matters

Front-End-Analysis always be brought up when you are getting started with designing a piece of instruction. Is this problem can be solved by a training course? What possible causes lead to the performance problem, the GAP between the current outcomes and the desired outcomes? The Gap is a Need, something we have to discover and analyze.

For the model I want to create is relevant to a NGO case. What I want to focus is the low performance of enrolled students in Education project in AIESEC. Therefore, the system of my model will be NGO AIESEC. While the subsystem will be Education project. Discovering the Need requires precise analyze of the background information, the current operation of this project, as well as the performance gap revealed in the performance problem.

IDE632 Week 2

My version of the AIMS and Means of "Instructional Development" is To achieve desired learning objectives by means of instructional strategies. Since what do during the whole process of instructional development is based on what our learning objectives are, we should applied different instructional strategies to make sure the instructional development makes sense.

For the module 1, what I am still a bit confused about is whether System "X" an OPEN/CLOSED system. As far as I am concerned, system "X" can be an OPEN system for it involves people like we discussed before about Education, Training, and Instruction.

Still I have a lot to process for Module 1, as well as trying to fill the practical terms such as system, suprasystem into my practical project.