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Tutoring at a Distance: Modelling as a Tool to Control Chaos
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Bertin, Jean-Claude; Narcy-Combes, Jean-Paul – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2012
This article builds on a previous article published in 2007, which aimed at clarifying the concept of tutoring. Based on a new epistemological stance (emergentism) the authors will here show how the various components of the computer-assisted language learning situation form a complex chaotic system. They advocate that modelling is a way of…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Computer Assisted Instruction, Models, Systems Approach
An Exploration of the Impact of an Open Governance Approach on Strategic Decision Making, Collaboration, Organizational Change, and Sustainability
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Hensley, Kendra – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Total quality management based governance models tend to focus on incremental improvements within the boundaries of a single organization. This may limit the benefits of information technology because they are not complex enough to address business or performance problems that extend beyond the boundaries of a single organization. The research…
Descriptors: Total Quality Management, Cooperation, Interviews, Program Effectiveness
Man-Environment Systems
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Campbell, Robert D.; Roark, A. L. – Man-Environment Systems, 1974
Any man-environment system is made up of subsets of the sets man, nature, artifacts, and symbols, and the set of interactions among these elements. (Author)
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Human Factors Engineering, Interaction Process Analysis, Models
The Management of Change: Preparing for Automation
Cowen, Sandra; Rummler, Geary A. – Training and Development Journal, 1974
Since the human performer is usually essential to the operation of a new system, the authors propose a model human performance system which, they claim, makes it possible to deal with people as rationally as with machines. The implications of this system for training in response to change are discussed. (SA)
Descriptors: Automation, Change Agents, Educational Needs, Human Factors Engineering
The Big 5: The Evolution of the Performance Systems Model
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Tosti, Donald T. – Performance Improvement, 2005
Human Performance Technology (HPT) consists of a few principles and a host of applications. The power of HPT comes from the fact that it is fundamental to an understanding of all forms of purposeful activity, ranging from the actions of an individual to the actions of an international organization. As a practical discipline, HPT began some 40…
Descriptors: Performance Technology, Systems Approach, Human Factors Engineering, Systems Development
The Systemic-Structural Theory of Activity: Applications to the Study of Human Work
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Bedny, Gregory Z.; Harris, Steven Robert – Mind, Culture, and Activity, 2005
This article offers an introduction to the central concepts and principles of the Systemic-Structural Theory of Activity (SSTA), an activity-theoretical approach specifically tailored to the analysis and design of human work. In activity theory, cognition is understood both as a process and as a structured system of actions. Building on the…
Descriptors: Human Factors Engineering, Design, Problem Solving, Man Machine Systems
New Look at Education Systems Analysis in Our Schools and Colleges.
Pfeiffer, John – 1968
A demand for more and better education has driven educators to seek the help of systems analysis in the process of decision making. Basic to the entire systems notion is the concept of a model, a simplified but controllable version of the real world. The systems approach, once the problem is defined, is to specify the subfunctions and…
Descriptors: Critical Path Method, Data Analysis, Decision Making, Educational Administration