Welcome! This site was developed to provide colleagues with access to my ongoing work in the fields of Organizational Development, Educational Technology, and Instructional Design. This page contains links to a selection of my publications on these topics. Please feel free to email me at eric@ecadams.com with any questions or opportunities. I am currently a Manager of Organizational Development for CVS/Caremark Corporation, where I am responsible for enterprise retail employee training & development and enterprise learning technology infrastructure & solutions. What does that entail? I received my Doctorate in Educational Technology from Pepperdine University. The title of my dissertation was "Social Network Analysis Applied to Digital Work Environments". What was it about?

journal article, "Selecting Tools for Online Communities: Suggestions for Learning Technologists", reference This journal article describes how to use message boards, virtual classrooms, and user profiles pages to make learning communities more "habitable" for their members. journal article, "Transparent Training and Technological Intuition", reference This journal article details the pedagogy behind my previous instructional design and technology training as a Technology Coordinator for the Diocese of Monterey. It reminds us to keep a human centered view of learning with and collaborating through technology. journal article, "The Emerging Knowledge Management Approach and Educational Organizations", reference This article initiates a dialogue with the educational community on the use of knowledge management principles and collaborative technologies in reform initiatives. It takes document management tools, expert systems, portals and data mining/mapping technology and presents them to the practitioner in the context of educational reform. journal article, "Communities of Practice: Bridging Technology and Knowledge Assessment", reference This article looks at mining the Intraspect Software (now Vignette) group memory of an educational technology community of practice for indications of knowledge transfer. This study was a precursor to my dissertation research conducted in the Pepperdine University Educational Technology Program. book chapter, "Commuting the 'Distance' of Distance Learning: The Pepperdine Story", reference This book chapter spells out how a sense of community is a critical success factor in any distance learning program. It looks at the evolution of online communities and the use of knowledge management principles and collaborative technologies to scaffold them.   Top