Task Complexity and Informing Science: A Synthesis

Gill, T. Grandon; Hicks, Richard C.

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“…These tasks reflect goals to be achieved or instructions to be performed (Gill and Hicks, 2006). They ideally relate to what trainees want to learn, invite them to use different skills and leave some room to decide on methods and/or activities to solve related problems (Barrack and Mount, 2013;Bartram and Roe, 2008;Eraut, 2007;Rawaswami and Dreher, 2007;Van Merriënboer and Kirschner, 2013).…”

Section: Selecting and Sequencing Tasksmentioning

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“…Normally, these tasks are highly structured, familiar and of a routine nature, and thus experienced by the trainee as being not too complex. Simple tasks generally prevent cognitive overload, because little ability is sufficient to meet the task requirements (Gill and Hicks, 2006).…”

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“…Such new, non-routine tasks often are less or ill-structured, and demand more of the cognitive system to perform them as required (Gill and Hicks, 2006). Performing them may cause some stress, because trainees will experience that their actual knowledge, skills and attitudes are yet inadequate to solve related problems properly (Gill and Hicks, 2006;MacGowan et al, 2007).…”

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European Journal of Training and Development

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Section: Selecting and Sequencing Tasksmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Selecting and Sequencing Tasksmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…The significance of design task complexity Gill and Murphy (2011) Objective Complexity rests on three primary sources (Wood, 1989):…”

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Putting Personal Knowledge Management under the Macroscope of Informing Science

Schmitt¹

2015

InSITE Conference

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The paper introduces a novel Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) concept and prototype system. The system's objective is to aid life-long-learning, resourcefulness, creativity, and teamwork of individuals throughout their academic and professional life and as contributors and beneficiaries of organizational and societal performance. Such a scope offers appealing and viable opportunities for stakeholders in the educational, professional, and developmental context.To further validate the underlying PKM application design, the systems thinking techniques of the transdiscipline of Informing Science (IS) are employed. By applying Cohen's IS-Framework, Leavitt's Diamond Model, the IS-Meta Approach, and Gill's and Murphy's Three Dimensions of Design Task Complexity, the more specific KM models and methodologies central to the PKMS concept are aligned, introduced, and visualized. The extent of this introduction offers an essential overview, which can be deepened and broadened by using the cited URL and DOI links pointing to the available resources of the author's prior publications.The paper emphasizes the differences of the proposed meme-based PKM System compared to its traditional organizational document-centric counterparts as well as its inherent complementing synergies. As a result, it shows how the system is closing in on Vannevar Bush's still unfulfilled vison of the 'Memex', an as-close-as-it-gets imaginary ancestor celebrating its 70 th anniversary as an inspiring idea never realized. It also addresses the scenario recently put forward by Levy which foresees a decentralizing revolution of knowledge management that gives more power and autonomy to individuals and self-organized groups. Accordingly, it also touches on the PKM potential in terms of Kuhn's Scientific Revolutions and Disruptive Innovations.

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“…The initial inspiration for the series of articles being presented is a 2006 article in Informing Science titled "Task Complexity and Informing Science: A Synthesis" (Gill & Hicks, 2006). Based upon their analysis of several hundred articles that either defined or applied the task complexity construct, the authors concluded that there was no possible consensus definition.…”

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Research Themes in Complex Informing

Gill

Cohen

2008

InformingSciJ

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This paper introduces a six paper series that examines the manner in which complexity impacts the informing process. Two of these papers specifically consider how the objective complexity of the domain being studied changes the nature of the solution-with domains consisting of many interacting elements and changing criteria for success tending to produce highly rugged fitness landscapes that violate the normal assumptions of decomposability that we make in our research and incorporate into our theories. A third paper considers how the concept of utility impacts informing and is impacted by complexity. Another pair of papers examines, first, how the structure of a client's mental models-referred to as structural complexity-changes with repetitive task performance and, then, how various cognitive filters work in concert with this structure during the informing process. The final paper specifically considers client-to-client informing processes, using the diffusion literature to argue that they are indispensible to complex informing and further mapping different models to different levels of informing complexity. Collectively, it is hoped that these papers will spur further research into the processes that enable complex informing.

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Task Complexity and Informing Science: A Synthesis

Cited by 44 publications

References 91 publications

Constituent aspects of workplace guidance in secondary VET

Constituent aspects of workplace guidance in secondary VET

Putting Personal Knowledge Management under the Macroscope of Informing Science

Research Themes in Complex Informing

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