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Electronic
Performance Support (EPSS)
What is an EPSS?
By
Chet Leighton
This article provides a general definition
of EPSS and explains why it has become such a hot topic for organizational
development, human resources, performance technology, and training development
professionals.
http://it2.coe.uga.edu/EPSS/Whatis.html
Types of Electronic
Performance Support Systems:
Their Characteristics and Range of
Designs
By
Deborah Alpert Sleight
This article defines an EPSS and describes
the key characteristics required in order for a program to be called an EPSS. It
defines a range of technologies that could be classified as EPSS.
http://www.msu.edu/~sleightd/epss_copy.html
Performance Technology
By
Ivor K. Davies
This article describes Performance
Technology and shows how it relates to Instructional
Technology.
http://www.ittheory.com/ptdavies.htm
Dynamism in Electronic
Performance Support Systems (PDF)
By
James Laffey
This article
introduces a model of dynamic electronic performance support systems. It reviews
the attributes of current performance support systems, describes lessons learned
from a project that explored a dynamic model of learning and support, and
presents design principles for dynamic performance
support.
Building a Demonstration
Multimedia Electronic Performance Support System
By
Lawrence J Najjar, Jennifer J. Ockerman, & J
ChristopherThompson
This paper describes
the process, hardware, and software that a team used to create a simple EPSS. It
also describes the rationale behind the design decisions and lists the lessons
that were learned from this experience.
http://mime1.gtri.gatech.edu/mime/papers/edmedia1l.html
EPSSworld – a Global
Knowledge Resource Site
By Dr Ashok
Banerj
Information and
knowledge dissemination about the field of EPSS is still very scarce. The
purpose of EPSSworld is to bridge this gap and to create an EPSS-related
information repository covering design, developments, examples, tools, and
research.
http://www.epssworld.com/