Week 5

I guess this week's lecture is the most impt of all since the lecturer placed much emphasis on this particular topic.

We learnt abt Needs Assessment, the idea of seeing what is wrong with a current learning system, identifying problems (if any) and providing recommendations/solutions to improve the system.

The following are the broad steps which i have summarized when conducting a needs assessment using the 3-faced Model:

Problem-Model:
Firstly, determine if there is any problem with the system by looking at results, sales, customer feedback etc.

Next, see if these problems are related to performances/achievements on learners' training/learning environments.

Next, see if we can use "learning" to tackle the problem.

And then, see if there are currently any instructions in place within the systems to achieve these learning goals. If there is, something could be wrong with the system and we shud proceed to check for discrepancy - Proceed to Discrepancy Model. If no, we need to implement new things to the system - Proceed to the Innovations Model.

For Discrepancy, we have to to think of look at what went wrong with the current instructions, is it properly and effectively in place? We may have to tweak it or improvise it before we can see results.

For Innovations Model, we simply need to think of new ways of teaching and instruction and input into the system.

This 3 face model will than go into a cyclical mode, looking and identifying problems as and when needed.