Organizational Performance and Workplace Learning faculty members participated in several presentations at the annual international conference of the Association for Educational Communications Technology (AECT) held in Las Vegas, Nevada, Oct. 17-21, 2016.
In the photo, Lisa Giacumo, Boise State; Kay Persichitte, University of Wyoming; Steven Villachica, Boise State; Quincy Conley, Boise State; and Kent Sabo, Clark County (Nevada) School District, participated in a panel discussion titled “Instructional Design for Education and the Workplace: Cousins, But Not Twins.” They provided guidance on the differences in instructional design practice in business and educational contexts. In other words, performance improvement specialists, educational technologists, and instructional designers ply their craft in both educational and workplace settings. Drawing on a shared evidence-based knowledge base, instructional designers often assume that their practices don’t vary significantly between the two settings. The panel explored the nuances of instructional design in these settings, places where theories, practice and context are the same — and different.