This website was developed for students in the Department of Educational Technology Department of San Diego State University. More specifically, this virtual environment was designed as a distance learning tool for Educational Technology 540 students. (You can thank us later for alleviating your parking woes and freeing you up for a night.) Enjoy yourself, have fun with the concepts. Think about how you can use job aids in your organization, your office, your daily lives. Allison Rossett served as a subject matter expert for this site. For additional information about job aids, please read:
Examples from various sources are used in each section. Also, key concepts are separated by headings such as this
All pages have icons at the bottom that link back to the beginning of each section and the table of contents. If you get lost, click on these icons to return to a place you know.
At the end of each section is a practice opportunity. Click on the practice icon 
to try out your skills.
If you are coming here just to brush up on some definitions or look at some example job aids for your project, feel free to go where you like. Additionally, in our resources section, we have provided some web sites that budding Ed Techer's are sure to like. If you find some great job aids that you think we should include in this site, please e:mail us.
The third and fourth sections are crucial if you are in the process of developing your job aids for ET 540. Think of it as a job aid on making job aids.
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