How Shall We Define Human Performance Technology?

• In Event: OTP - Defining Performance Improvement

Short Description

Periodically, authors who identify as part of the emerging field of Human Performance Technology (HPT) attempt to create a verbal definition of HPT. Given a plethora of candidate definitions, how does one choose which definition, if any, is most suitable?
In this presentation, evaluation criteria for HPT definitions will be proposed, and then 30 HPT definitions will be reviewed based on the criteria. As a conclusion, the most suitable HPT definition will be proposed.

Author

• Sung "Pil" Kang, University of New Mexico