Oct 23, 2018
Ryan Watkins, Ph.D.
is a Professor at the
George Washington University
in Washington DC, where he teaches
and does research on needs assessments, instructional design, and
human-technology collaborations.
He is co-host of the podcast
Parsing Science, developer
of the We Share Science (www.wesharescience.org) platform for sharing video abstracts of
scientific research; and maintains the website www.needsassessment.org as a resource site for those conducting needs
assessments.
In this episode, we discuss what separates a need vs. a want, how
technology may be changing this, and how evaluators can take
advantage of technological trends in their work.