Dr. Andrew S. Gibbons
Andrew S. Gibbons
Associate Professor................................................................... President
Department of Instructional Technology...........................Cedars Associates
Utah State University.................................................1475 East 1260 North
Logan Utah 84322-2830.................................................Logan, Utah 84341
(801) 797-2393 (Phone)...........................................(801) 755-3115 (Phone)
(801) 797-2693 (Fax)
gibbons@cc.usu.edu (E-mail)
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Instructional Psychology; Brigham Young University, 1974.
Public School Educator, two years, Springville Middle School (7th Grade English).
B.A., English/Chemistry/Teaching Certificate; Brigham Young University, 1969.
Undergraduate work, Zoology/Chemistry; Arizona State University, 1962-64.
PUBLICATIONS AND RELATED ACTIVITIES
ISLAND MULTIMEDIA ASSOCIATES
CONSULTATIONS: CEDARS ASSOCIATES
Clients consulted include: Apple Computer, Simon and Schuster/Paramount Publishing, USAF,
Pepsico, Boeing, Novell, American Stores, Intermountain Health Care, Performx (a Canadian
corporation serving Air Canada and the Province of New Brunswick), American Chemical
Society/National Science Foundation.
CONSULTATIONS: WICAT SYSTEMS
Clients consulted include: Timken Steel, American Express, AT&T, Westinghouse Idaho
Nuclear, General Dynamics, McDonnell-Douglas, Southern California Edison, Hughes Aircraft,
Canadian Corrections (Prisons) Division, U.S. Government (all military services and many
government agencies), Ford Aerospace, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, National
Semiconductor, Northern Telecom, major domestic airlines (Northwest, Continental, TWA,
American) and international airlines (SwissAir, Scandinavian Airlines, All Nippon Airways).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY
Associate Professor, Instructional Technology Program, January, 1993 to present.
Senior Designer, ID2 Development Team, January, 1993 to present.
Faculty Search Committee Chairman, 1996.
AECT Student Chapter, Advisor, 1995-96.
Advisor: HETI Mathematics Project, March, 1995 to Present.
Advising the design and development of an interface and underlying shell logic structure for
instruction, practice, and assessment of High School and College-level Pre-Calculus Algebra.
Shell will make possible the production of high volumes of problems which are adaptive at
runtime to the individual student. Project includes the provision of flexible expert feedback’s Higher
Education Technology Initiative (HETI) for $300,000.
Project Leader: Weather CD-ROM Project, January, 1995 to June, 1995.
Planned the dissemination of an innovative CD-ROM instructional product to Utah public
schools. CD prepared by the Utah State Climatologist, Don Jensen, provides state weather
archival data covering a period of 50 years which is accessed using an interesting and easy-to-
use graphical user interface. Supervised the preparation of problem materials requiring the CD’s
data for solution by students. Planned and assisted in the distribution of the CD to Utah schools.
Project Leader/Advisor: Hill AFB Project, June 1994 to January, 1995.
Supervised students designing and developing computer-based instructional materials for use by
the U. S. Air Force in the areas of aviation operations, maintenance, and hazardous materials
handling.
Design Team Member: ID2 Research Team Language Shell Project, June, 1993 to June, 1994.
Worked with a team of three designers to design an interactive authoring shell interface to use
re-purposed foreign-language video materials for the creation of interactive language learning
exercises. Key challenges were to incorporate current cognitive research into the instructional
design and to make an authoring interface usable by language instructors to design interactions
without specialized programming or instructional design skills.
Lead designer and Advisor: ID2 Research, Simulation Knowledge Base Project, January, 1993 to
June, 1994.
Designed the core mechanism for administering tutorials using live, embedded simulations as
the knowledge base from which to generate instructional messages. Advised student
programmer who created software incorporating the design.
Project Leader: ID2 Research, Student Interface Design Project, January, 1994 to June 1994.
Designed an innovative, environment-based graphical user interface for the ID Expert Student
Management System.
Project Member: ID2 Research, Procedures Shell Project, January, 1993-June, 1993.
Designed instructional strategies for use in a Procedures Transaction Shell.
Project Leader: ID2 Research, Student Management System Design Project, January 1993, to
June 1993.
Designed a complete Student Management System (SMS) for use in conjunction with the ID
Expert Instructional System.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: WICAT EDUCATION R&D
Director, Science and Math Courseware, Education R&D, September 1991 to December, 1992.
Project Director, Videodiscovery Integration Project; February, 1992 to December, 1992.
Designed a family of worksheets to be used in integration with an existing videodisc and CBT
instruction, to add multimedia features to an existing CBT science product.
Project Director, Science Curriculum Standards Project; December, 1991 to December, 1992.
Directed the survey of emerging science instruction guidelines and standards to form the basis
for future science courseware designs. Directed the correlation of existing state and national
instructional goal sets with the existing Middle School Science product.
Project Director, Middle School Science Project; September-December, 1991.
Led a development team to create an interdisciplinary Middle School Science course totaling
120 hours of CBT instruction. Integrated an existing CBT tutorial product with existing and new
instruction to produce a product involving reading, writing, and mathematics activities. Product
integrates a CD-ROM encyclopedia and word processor with instructional activities.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: WICAT TRAINING DIVISION
Lead Designer SAS Evaluator Project; January, 1991 to September, 1991.
Designed an Evaluator product for experienced pilot recurrent training to test judgment and
decision-making ability for cockpit resource management in less-structured performance
situations. Designed and programmed the expert critic feedback system as a shell structure.
Specified the operating characteristics of the simulation module of the Evaluator and oversaw
programming. Resulting product realized the goal of making multiple Evaluator activities capable
of running under a single driver program.
Lead Designer, AMRTT Maintenance Evaluator Project; January, 1990 to December, 1990.
Designed a Maintenance Evaluator that transferred Evaluator technology to a new domain of
content: aviation maintenance. Created a prototype for AMR Technical Training (American
Airlines holding subsidiary) of a maintenance shop performance testing environment, with expert
critic feedback.
Project Director, Ab Initio Pilot Training Development Project; October, 1988 to December 1989.
Represented Wicat Systems to a consortium of three organizations--University of North Dakota
Center for Aerospace Studies, Northwest (Airlines) Aerospace Training Corporation, and Wicat--
involved in the development of ab initio (from the beginning) training for future airline pilots. Led
task analysis efforts by training a multi-organization analysis group and initiating the analysis
process. Supervised and reviewed the task analysis process and product. Designed and
developed the first of a type of CBT activity called an Evaluator"--an extended simulation
problem followed by expert critic feedback on performance.
Project Director, Automated ISD Tools R&D Project; August, 1987 to December, 1987.
Led the design and creation of a specialized software interface to aid instructional developers in
the performance of task analysis. Led the design of similar interfaces for subsequent steps of the
ISD process, including an authoring system/scriptor interface for the creation of CBT scripts and
CBT materials. Created a scriptor prototype for demonstration purposes.
Project Director, Airbus A-320 Pilot Training Project; February, 1988 to April, 1988.
Responsible for analysis of A-320 crewmember tasks as the first step toward a crew training
system. Later projects designed and produced instruction for Northwest Airlines.
Senior Consultant, 767 Pilot Training Needs Study; March, 1988.
Studied the factors involved in developing pilot training through a joint Airline/Manufacturer
effort. Recommended policies and procedural guidelines for the interaction of the two
organizations. For Boeing Commercial Aircraft Company and Scandinavian Airlines.
Project Director, 747-451 Pilot Training Development Project; Sept, 1987 to December, 1987.
Responsible for all phases of analysis and design for an innovative pilot training system for a
new model of aircraft using automated navigation systems. Initiated task analysis, led product
design, including design of a performance testing system-- the "Challenge" system--for placing
students into the curriculum at the right starting point. Wrote a set of Instructional Development
process procedural guidelines for use by Northwest. Consulted during the development phase of
the project.
Senior Design Consultant, Scandinavian Airlines DC-10 Pilot Training Development Project;
June, 1986 to June, 1987.
Provided process specifications for developing DC-10 pilot training for a United Kingdom-based
development team. Led the task and objectives analysis efforts and reviewed final products.
Project Director, TWA Training System Development Project; October, 1984 to April, 1985.
Responsible for the design and development of an interactive videodisc part-task trainer for DC-
9/MD-80 pilots. Development included 13 separate exercises for the DC-9 Flight Guidance
System, spanning the standard flight profile in demonstration and practice mode.
Lead Designer, Northern Telecom SL-100 Maintenance Training Course; Fall, 1984.
Headed an analysis and design team of four people to create the design specifications and
standards for a course on the NT SL-100 telephone switching system. Reviewed prototype
products produced by the development team.
Design Consultant, BUY Pascal Course Development Project; Summer, 1984.
Assisted BUY faculty members in Computer Science in the design of an interactive computer-
based course on the Pascal programming language.
Lead designer, AT&T System 85 Maintenance and Administration simulation; Spring, 1984.
Designed the user interface and operational flow for two simulations intended to train
maintenance personnel to use the Maintenance and Administration panel (MAP) on the AT&T
System 85 switch.
Lead Analyst, AT&T System 85 Maintenance course; Spring, 1984.
Performed analysis and design of a course for System 85 maintenance personnel to be
administered on computer and videodisc.
Project Director, Denver Research Institute Project; April, 1982 to December, 1982.
Responsible for the development of computer-based instruction course materials to be used by
US Air Force software contract monitors. This represented the first training course developed
using the Wise Authoring System.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: WICAT INCORPORATED
Project Director, Computer Resources Management Project; November, 1981 to February, 1982.
Developed a workbook and case study course on computer resource acquisition and
management for the US Government.
Project Director, DARPA DIS Project; October, 1979 to June, 1982.
Responsible for development of computer-based instruction and a 2-dimensional (flat panel,
desktop) simulation for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Distributed
Instructional System (DIS) project and subsequently for the US Army Training Development
Institute. The simulation (a 1200-component model) and instruction (29 lessons) involved the
production of 5 videodisc sides and the design of computer programs to administer them to
students.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: COURSEWARE, INCORPORATED
Project Director, F-16 Aircrew Training Development Project; 1977 to 1979.
Responsible for complete analysis and design of a training system for F-16 fighter pilots and
instructor pilots. Project produced extensive documentation on instructional systems
development processes. Project staff maximum: 30 persons. Project budget: $2.5 million.
Project Director, SH-2F Aircrew Training Development Project (USN);1975 to 1977.
Worked with Navy subject-matter experts to task analyze jobs of all SH-2F helicopter (Anti-
submarine Warfare) crew members. Directed task analysis, objectives analysis, media analysis
and selection, development of syllabi and course design. Responsible for the production of
lessons and management and evaluation plans. Project staff maximum: 22 persons. Project
budget: $850,000.
Project Director, Mobile Training Teams Project (USMC);1974 to 1975.
Responsible for task/job analysis, design, development, and evaluation of audiovisual materials
to be used by Marine Mobile Training Teams to teach staff planning courses throughout the
world. Trained Marine Corps personnel in design and development techniques used in the
project.
GRADUATE EXPERIENCE
Design Team Leader, Statistics 221 Project. Brigham Young University, 1973 to 1974.
Worked in coordination with Dr. H.C. Christensen to produce a basic statistic text having unique
instructional properties for self-instructional purposes. Text published by BYU Press in 1974 as
Introductory Statistics: A Simplified Approach. Subsequently published by Houghton-Mifflin in
1977 as Statistics Step-by-Step.
Member, Instructional Design Team for TlCCIT CAI System Design Project; 1972 to 1973.
Project sponsored by the National Science Foundation resulted in the development of one of the
landmark CBT delivery systems. Participated in the design of the unique instructional strategies
component of the system.
Project member and chief author in the development of a manual on test item writing; 1972.
Three-month project produced a publication by the BYU Press, Writing Technically Correct Test
ltems, a manual on test item writing for school teachers, by G.E. Barton and A.S. Gibbons.
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