The majority of my research and scholarly presentations are based on principles from the Toyota Production System applied to Instructional Technology. Over the past several years I have been researching the link between the principles of lean manufacturing and those of instructional technology. I have found that there are strong correlations between the evolution of the manufacturing industry from craft to mass to lean productions and the instructional technology industry as it begins to transition from craft to mass to lean instructional production methods.
Publications
Nguyen, F., Woll, C. A. (2006) A Practitioner’s Guide for Designing Performance Support Systems. Performance Improvement, 45(9), 37-45.
Mahesh, V., Woll, C. A. (2007) Blended Learning in High Tech Manufacturing: A case study of cost benefits and production efficiency. Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks 11(2), 43-60.
Presentations
Woll, C. A. (Feb, 2007). Blended learning in high tech manufacturing. ASTD TechKnowledge: Las Vegas, NV.
Hanzel, M. & Woll, C. A. (Feb, 2007). The eLearning developer's toolbox: Making sense of the authoring tool landscape. ASTD TechKnowledge: Las Vegas, NV.Woll, C. A. (July 2004). How Intel implements its blended learning: The vision for collaboration on blended learning methodology. Presented at the Technician Performance Improvement Council at the SAME-TEC 2004 Convention: Santa Clara, CA. http://tpic.org.
Woll, C. A., & Allen, S. (November, 2002). Organizational learning through the use of continuous feedback loops. Presented at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology: Dallas, TX. http://www.aect.org.
Allen, S., Woll, C. A. (November, 2002). An argument for self-organizing instructional design teams: What instructional technology can learn from self-organizing systems such as Lean manufacturing. Presented at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology: Dallas, TX. http://www.aect.org.
Soulier, S. J., Woll, C. A., Aplanalp, J. (November, 2002). Tfolio - Demonstrating the use of electronic portfolios to assess technology integration. Presented at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology: Dallas, TX. http://www.aect.org.
Soulier, S. J., Woll, C. A., Aplanalp, J. (November, 2002). Tfolio - Using electronic portfolios to assess technology integration. Presented at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology: Dallas, TX. http://www.aect.org.
Woll, C. A. (August, 2002). Value in instructional production systems. Presented at the Instructional Technology Institute: Logan, UT. http://itinstitute.usu.edu.
Woll, C. A. (March, 2002). Lessons from Lean Manufacturing for Instructional Design. Presented at Online Instruction for the 21st Century: Connecting Instructional Design to International Standards for Content Reusability: Provo, UT. http://moliere.byu.edu/id2scorm.
Lean Resources
The Toyota Way:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Toyota_WayLearning Organization in Action:
http://www.si.umich.edu/ICOS/Presentations/20050325/The Toyota Production System:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Production_SystemThinking Production System:
http://www.toyotageorgetown.com/tps.aspLean Terms and Definitions:
http://nwlean.net/leandefs.htmLean Library:
http://www.leanlibrary.com/
Literature
Liker, J. 2004. The Toyota Way. McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.
Morgan, J. M. and Liker, J. 2006. The Toyota Product Development System: Integrating People, Process and Technology, Productivity Press
Womack, James P., Daniel T. Jones, and Daniel Roos. The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production. New York: HarperPerennial, 1991.
Womack, James P., and Daniel T. Jones. Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.
Spear, S., and HK Bowen. "Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System." The Harvard Business Review 97 (September-October, 1999).
Liker, Jeffrey K. (Ed.). Becoming Lean: Inside Stories of U.S. Manufacturers. Portland, OR: Productivity Press, 1997.
Ohno, Taiichi. Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production. Portland, OR: Productivity Press, 1988.
Rother, Mike, and John Shook. Learning to See: Value Stream Mapping to Add Value and Eliminate Muda. Brookline, MA: Lean Enterprises Institute, Inc., 1999.
Imai M. (1997) Gemba Kaizen : A Commonsense Low-cost Approach to Management, New York: McGraw-Hill
Senge, Peter M. The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization. New York: Doubleday, 1990
Goldratt, E. The Goal (1992). North River Press. Great Barrington, Ma.
