Dr. Donald J. Winiecki is a professor in the Instructional & Performance Technology Department in the College of Engineering at Boise State University, and an adjunct professor in the Department of Sociology. He holds an Ed.D. in Instructional Technology from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Central Queensland University in Rockhampton, QLD, Australia. Dr. Winiecki teaches courses in needs assessment and ethnographic research in organizations, and his current research focuses on the system of values and beliefs in human performance technology and the impacts of technology in social and organizational settings. He has presented papers at conferences for the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Pacific Sociological Association (PSA).
Articles
Synthesizing Soft Systems Methodology and Human Performance Technology (with Glen Scott), Performance Improvement Quarterly (2012)
Human performance technology (HPT), like other concepts, models, and frameworks that we use to describe...
Mapping Conversation Patterns in the Asynchronous Classroom, International Journal of Humanities and Social Science (2012)
Distance education via asynchronous learning networks (ALNs) is an increasingly common method of educational delivery....
Root Causes of Errant Ordered Radiology Exams: Results of a Needs Assessment (with Benjamin D. Duman, Seung Youn Chyung, and Steven W. Villachica), Performance Improvement (2011)
A comprehensive needs assessment was conducted at ATA hospital to determine the root causes of...
Rational, Natural, and Open: Organizational System Typologies and Their Relevance for Performance Improvement Professionals, Performance Improvement (2010)
The work of human performance technology (HPT) is always conducted in an organization of some...
How Should Organizational Leaders Use Employee Engagement Survey Data? (with Shelley A. Gable, Seung Youn Chyung, and Anthony Marker), Performance Improvement (2010)
This evaluation study explores how a nonprofit health insurance provider responds to the results of...
Books
Discipline and Governmentality at Work: Making the Subject and Subjectivity in Modern Tertiary Labour, Faculty Authored Books (2006)
Drawn from ethnographic research using post-structural analytics, this book describes how a collection of technologies...
Contributions to Books
Using Ethnographic Forms of Research to Study the Social World and to Make Social Theories Studyable, Contemporary Studies in Ethnography (2009)
Systems, Measures, and Workers: Producing and Obscuring the System and Making Systemic Performance Improvement Difficult, Handbook of Human Performance Technology: Principles, Practices, and Potential (2006)
Early in the preparation of this chapter, James A. Pershing, the editor of this volume,...
Using Narrative Strategies to Enhance Interactivity Online (with Linda Lohr and Kathy Miller), Research on Enhancing the Interactivity of Online Learning (2006)
This chapter explores the use of narrative as an instructional strategy for enhancing interactivity in...
Instructional Discussions in Online Education: Practical and Research-Oriented Perspectives, Handbook of Distance Education (2003)
It can be argued that discussion is one of the oldest forms of instruction (Gall...
Recent Presentations
Expert Witnesses and Courtroom Discourse: Membership Categorization Devices and the Creation of the Subject and Subjectivity, 107th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (2012)
The expert witness in legal proceedings is both a historically necessary part of modern legal...
Mapping Conversation Patterns in the Asynchronous, Computer-Mediated Classroom (with Michael Blain), 107th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (2012)
Distance education via asynchronous learning networks (ALNs) is an increasingly common method of educational delivery....