Dr. Donald J. Winiecki is a professor in the Organizational Performance and Workplace Learning Department in the College of Engineering at Boise State University, and an adjunct professor in the Department of Sociology. He holds an Ed.D. in Instructional Technology from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Central Queensland University in Rockhampton, QLD, Australia. Dr. Winiecki teaches courses in needs assessment and ethnographic research in organizations, and his current research focuses on the system of values and beliefs in human performance technology and the impacts of technology in social and organizational settings. He has presented papers at conferences for the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Pacific Sociological Association (PSA).