Electronic Performance Support Systems and Technological Literacy.

Electronic performance support systems (EPSS) can provide alternative learning opportunities to supplement traditional classroom or training strategies. Today's students may benefit from educational settings and strategies that they will use in the future. In using EPSS to nurture the development of technological literacy , workers and students can achieve higher level cognition skills while they perform tasks. Although there are unique challenges to the development and use of EPSS, efforts to overcome these challenges are becoming more widespread. Introduction Whether it is planning new highway construction , calibrating a stamping machine, or assembling a tricycle, humans cannot escape using information, tools, energy, and materials when performing a task. Technology has become a powerful force in the world, forming a totality that is difficult to understand as a whole The nature of modern work and rapidly changing conditions in the workplace demand that workers to be very agile in their use of information, tools, energy and materials , and continuously engage in learning.