Human Performance Technology with Guy Wallace
Alexander Salas, CPTD, CTT
Instructional Systems Designer | LinkedIn Top Voice | Speaker | eLearning Developer
Human Performance Technology or HPT is the use of science and tools to enable performance in the workplace. It goes beyond course development and it comes out of the golden era of Systems Approach to Training (SAT) in the 70s. There are several authors to recognize out of a time where instructional systems design reached is most advanced practice. Guy Wallace has been an HPT practitioner for about 45+ years and we explore some of the influences that led to such impactful practice in Learning and Development.
1919 The Instructor, The Man and The Job
In 1919, Charles Rickettson Allen aka C.R. Allen, a vocational educator tasked with training lay people on how to build ships to support the U.S. World War One efforts, publishes The Instructor, The Man and The Job. This book establishes many of the foundational concepts known today as best practices in HPT and instructional design.
1940s Training Within Industry and Ralph Tyler's Systemic Curriculum Evaluations
Training Within Industry or TWI was the second time, training became the differentiating quality this time helping the US win World War Two. On the academic front Professor Ralph Tyler writes several seminal pieces on systemic curriculum design.
1970s IPISD and HPT
The Interservice Procedures for Instructional Systems Development model is published and gives birth to what is known today as the ADDIE process. From this point on and much of the 80s, several flavors of HPT are seen. Another notion of it is Human Performance Engineering or HPE.
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Check out Episode 19 with Guy Wallace where he explains the evolution and purpose of HPT in more detail.
Learning Technologist - Instructional Designer
1 年Great post on two great professionals. Thanks for this.
I really enjoyed your interview with Guy Wallace, Alexander Salas. Guy and I connected here in Charlotte, NC about 5 years ago or earlier, and we have been mutually supportive of one another since. In fact, he interviewed me on his Podcast relative to his HPT interest in my work. Besides his length of time in this field, I too enjoy his historical perspectives. But I especially enjoyed understanding how he tied my experiences to my current work. Keep up the interesting work, Alexander.