Early on, learning sciences came from the situated learning perspective. They pushed a "keep the doctrine pure" kind of line and viewed themselves as the "cool kids club," so to speak.
A lot of what is happening is fairly political. With a little bit of political power, they can make some inroads.
Territorial battles? Preservation of status? People who graduate from LS programs typically get the same jobs as Instructional Technology.
I had an interesting experience this weekend where I felt like I had to bear testimony of what I believe about learning and what I've seen in the lives of learners with whom I've worked. (Paul Sparks)
Do I want to research? practice? evaluate?
human performance technologist - finding out what works and what doesn't
competencies, salaries - where jobs are and what they are like (read online HPT)
post in Careers section of blog - salary survey
Tifany, Kevin, Rob, Richard, John
Salary & Job Description
Skills
Industry/Environment
Team/Individual
Clients
Lifestyle
What part of the the IPT program name do you relate with and what would you change? (Psychology? Philosophy? )
A central tenet of our field is HELP. We are learning to do things in this program to take these principles and applications into other fields.
Roots of the discipline -
IT - anchored in behaviorism during WWII era.
IT does research in the service of design (helping people learn)
LS does design in the service of research (creating knowledge about how people learn) - primary motive is research.
Both have research that involves design
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