Part 1. How do you feel about your implementation and evaluation plans? Did they work well for you? How was the teamwork, and how would you assess your own performance?

The implementation plan opened more ideas and thoughts to create a better solution to the system problem. Thinking broadly about the setting/systems where the learning technology will be used, the learning technologies to be used, training and supporting users, and the just-in-time training and support was drawn. Any existing barriers needed to be sorted or overcome as objectives had to be achieved as planned. The system needed to be analyzed to solve the problem by transforming for possible changes or strategies that would improve the system. The system also had to be evaluated for effectiveness and efficiency. The training value had to be determined when the evaluation defined the technology. The Kirkpatrick model provided a broader understanding of evaluating the system training value with the return on investment. I was impressed by how the same Kirkpatrick model combined the Phillips methodology to find the return on investment.

Working within a team during and outside the class was a great experience. Working together as a team with assignments brought much information that you would not have gathered alone and made a lot of improvement and mind-breaking ideas as we discussed the soft system methodology and system thinking which was new to the whole class. At first, the thought of the complexity model was later enlightened to be a more straightforward analysis when the group discussed and did the soft system methodology for the darkest hour. We discussed the action items and developed the system according to our preferences; the darkest hour group project provided vital knowledge to proceed with individual task 1 and build the system.

Part 2. What kind of research agenda would you develop tied to the system analysis, implementation, and evaluation. Will you try to do this kind of research in the future? Why or why not?

As my research agenda, I would like to improve this system to build further and to identify steps of the program effectiveness, plus develop task 3 for a journal publication. I would also like to initiate and build the instructional design systems to go live in the future so that relevant knowledge will be available to the designer by assignment or novice designer, which would help the overall instructional design field. Instructional designers have many hats to wear, and a piece of growing knowledge is required with the advancement of technology and the evolution of student needs. I have designed and developed many manual operations for automation in my previous jobs. I like to promote and produce higher efficiency, accuracy, reliability, and productivity, reducing time and cost for the organization.