Purpose The Education Technical Group (ETG) is concerned with the design of educational systems, environments, interfaces, and technologies with human factors education. The group consists of educators, researchers, students, and others interested in educational human factors and ergonomics. We are focused on the education and training of human factors and ergonomics specialists in academia, industry, and government. The group seeks to foster a free exchange of ideas, techniques, and even products among members to further the cause of educating Human Factors professionals. The major activity of the group for the past year has been an exploration of expanding the scope of its charter. In recent years proposals have been made to include in our mission statement the study of educational ergonomics. With the increased use of technology in K-12 as well as higher-education classrooms, it has become increasingly important that the human factors and ergonomics research and evaluation of these technologies be encouraged and promulgated. |