Dr. Jeff M. AllenProfessor and Director

Center for Knowledge SolutionsJeff.Allen@unt.edu

Skype & Google+: drjeffallen

Learning and Learning and PerformancePerformance

InnovationInnovation

My passion is learning and performance innovation

My students require an integration of my research into my teaching to provide first-hand experience with reading, interpreting, and creating new theories and practices that guide learning and performance.

I research, teach and provide service in the area of learning and performance innovations for education and the workforce.  

This integration provides a seamless transition from the theories of the classroom into the everyday innovative process and practices of the corporate and educational workplaces.

Research Constructs

Learning Performance

TechnologyOrganization

Development

Definitions & Definitions & BackgroundsBackgrounds

Innovation

the utilization of theory, system, processes, and tools that advance society by improving skill sets, promoting global and local connectivity, and increasing productivity and knowledge.

Learning Innovation

encompasses creative, replicable and effective strategies, techniques, tools, or systems used to efficiently enhance the knowledge acquisition process of learners.

Performance Innovation

encompasses creative, replicable and effective strategies geared towards reaching desired goals through human behavioral change and the measurement of this change.

ChaChangengeis an is an eventevent

InnovatiInnovation is an on is an attitudeattitude

Change Event

Communication

LearningLearning

Technology

Natives

Information

Natives

Social Networking

Personal Learning Network

Critical Skills

Trilling (2008)

Computing Fluency

Critical Thinking

Cross-cultural Understanding

Career and learning Self-reliance CreativityCollaboration,

Teamwork, Leadership

Innovation

Problem-solving

Information Fluency

Communication Technology Fluency

Self Learning

Models of self-learning are numerous and research in this area is vast, yet the key to learning is “self”

Allen, J., Bracey, P., & Gavrilova, M. (2010)

self-directed, self-regulation, self-planned, self-teaching, self-educated, self-management, self-guided, self-instruction, self-reflection, self-evaluation

EnhancementWork-based LearningProvides opportunities to achieve employment-related competencies, and often takes place with classroom learning in the form of work experience or workplace mentoring.

Problem-based LearningTeaches curriculum concepts through a project during which students enhance their own learning through inquiry and research.

Service LearningEncompasses the process of learning through the experience of rendering service to address problems within the school or community, and actively reflecting upon the experience.

Allen, J., Bracey, P., & Gavrilova, M. (2010)Bell (2010)

National Service Learning Center (2010)

InnovationInnovation

Innovation Adoption

Rogers (2003)

Early Adopters

Early Majority

2.5%(+13.5%) 16%

Innovators

Late Majority

Laggards

(+34%) 50%(+34%) 50%(+34%) 84%(16%) 100%

Obstacles & Solutions

Lack of TimeLack of MoneyStatus QuoPerceived ValueEngagementTransparency

Early PlanningDesign for StakeholderRisk AnalysisContingency PlanEvaluation SystemEngagementTransparency

Devane (2007)

Pamela Bracey

Ashwini Gojer

Laura Pasquini

John Turner

Tekiesha Zimmerman

2012 Research Team

Dr. Pamela Bracey

Resources

Allen, J., Bracey, P., & Pasquini, L. (2012). Learning and Performance Innovation. In Wang, V. C. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of E-Leadership, Counseling and Training. (pp. 48-64). doi:10.4018/978-1-61350-068-2.ch005

Allen, J., Gojer, A. J., Gavrilova-Aguilar, M., & Philpot, D. (2012). Sustaining Organizational Innovation. In Wang, V. C. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of E-Leadership, Counseling and Training. (pp. 514-531). doi:10.4018/978-1-61350-068-2.ch038

Allen, J., Bracey, P., & Gavrilova, M. (2010). Learning in 2010: Instructional Challenges for Adult Career and Technical Education. International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology (IJAVET), 1(4), 48-62. doi:10.4018/javet.2010100104

LeadershipThis I believe to be true:

Leadership is earned through trust not through a given job title.

Leaders are both formal and informal.

A leader of scholars must first be a champion their unit: . . . must embrace shared governance.

. . . must have vision.

. . . must inspire the faculty and convince administration.

. . . must lead by example.

. . . must guide and nurture young scholars.

. . . must be able to observe, diagnose and remedy in an ambiguous

environment of change.

. . . must manage for efficiency and while supporting innovation.

Personal Mission Statement

My mission is to balance the goals of my personal and professional life while continually gaining new knowledge. This effort to balance my goals should not dilute the quality of my goals, but should enhance the quality of life for my family, co-workers, friends, and students.