Chapter 3

Question 1

What might be most important method for a TD professional to stay in touch with technology?

Answer 1

Network with peers internally and externally through social media and at conferences

Question 2

What aspects of technology should a TD professional consider to ensure successful implementation of an organizations learning technology.

Answer 2

The organization’s technology capabilities
The learners’ access to technology
New technological developments

Question 3

EPSS and LCM’s are primarily designed to…

Answer 3

Manage learning content, both provide tools for developing learning objects and storing them soy they may be used to construct personalized learning opportunities.

Question 4

If you were developing a course and wanted to encourage reflective observation, which strategy might be appropriate?

Answer 4

Ask learners to post comments to the course WIKI. Reflective observation generally takes place after contact with some sort of stimulus.

Question 5

Augmented reality can be used to….

Answer 5

Tag objects in the real world with additional information.

Question 6

What is a principal consideration in judging “fair use” of printed materials?

Answer 6

The use does not diminish the value of the original document. In the US copyright depends on the lifetime of the author plus some additional years of coverage. The goal protections is to keep reproduction from diminishing the economic value of work.

Question 7

Learning analytics is…

Answer 7

Information for personalizing course content.

Question 8

In designing a learning opportunity what question is most important to ask?

Answer 8

Is a technological approach the most practical for achieving the intended change or behavior.

Question 9

What is the purpose of the flipped classroom?

Answer 9

To use class time to encourage learners to focus on higher orders of learning. Expectation is that learners will complete basic stages of learning. Remembering and understanding on their own outside of class and use class time for applying, analyzing, evaluation, and creating new things using their basic knowledge.

Question 10

Despite Shirky’s argument for banning devices from the classroom, what is the best reason to allow them?

Answer 10

Learners with learning disabilities who use those devices would not have to disclose their disability.

Question 11

What is the difference between teleconferencing and web conferencing?

Answer 11

Teleconferencing facilities require a dedicated satellite dish for connection.

Question 12

VOIP is….

Answer 12

Web based telephony (voice over internet proitical)

Question 13

Are the internet and the web interchangeable?

Answer 13

No, the web is a method for sharing info on the internet. The internet is a very large network of connections, while the web uses HTTP protical to share information.

Question 14

What refers to web 2.0?

Answer 14

An expansion of the types of interactive media used on the web.

Question 15

Cloud based fire sharing be considered a social medium?

Answer 15

Yes, because it allows people in multiple places to collaborate.

Question 16

EDUCAUSE list laptop computers among devices that enable mobile learning. Why might others not include laptops on the list?

Answer 16

Because older ones use keyboards, touch pads, and mice as input devices. Modern laptops often have touchscreens and onscreen keyboards. But earlier ones use older formats of input that make them similar to desktop computers, which are not mobile.

Question 17

What is a benefit of using mobile learning?

Answer 17

It changes the dynamic to one of co-creation.

Question 18

Talent management is a way to….

Answer 18

Connect the organizations productivity with the deployment of its personal.

Question 19

An exclusive talent management strategy would….

Answer 19

Track performance and focus on improving the skills of the most productive workers.

Question 20

According to Cappelli and Keller, what is the drawback associated with hiring people outside to fill strategic jobs?

Answer 20

It leaves the organization at the mercy of the labor market.

Question 21

Performance management is….

Answer 21

A component of talent management

Question 22

Why does KM fit in a chapter on learning technologies?

Answer 22

Knowledge is the basis for organizations productivity. Does not matter what the organization produces. Its success depends on the collective knowledge of its employees. How that knowledge is managed so that is is accessible to employees is critical to their abilities to perform well.

Question 23

One of the principal goals of knowledge management as a process is to….

Answer 23

Capture what employees know in a for that others can access.

Question 24

What is a way to codify tacit knowledge?

Answer 24

Saving the contents of an electronic whiteboard after a brainstorming session.

Question 25

Where would an EPSS fit as a technological support in Evans and colleagues cycle of knowledge development?

Answer 25

Identify & create, Store & use, Share & Improve

Question 26

What is a data warehouse?

Answer 26

Information gathered by smaller units of an organization.

Question 27

A decision support system…

Answer 27

Uses statistical techniques to narrow choices.