Some Background Information on JIT (Just-In-Time), Arranged chronologically.

NOTE: Although there are thousands of Google hits when one searches for JIT and Performance Tips, there are none for JIT Performance Tips. BTW, another term, "chronemics," seems to be a related educational term that was used in the Johnson and Card article referenced below.

Christ, F. L. (2008). Just in Time Performance Tips (JITPT): Online Student Support Participant Handout. TechEd Conference, April 16, 2008, Ontario, CA.

Abstract: "Almost all online students, like their F2F counterparts, will experience learning and study strategies problems as well as course and computer challenges. Competencies in online email tasks, course activities such as using the course syllabus, creating course binders, following directions, recognizing and avoiding plagiarism, using bibliographic formats, participation in discussion forums, working in groups, responding to reading questions, meeting course deadlines, reading course texts and ancillary materials, writing annotated bibliographies and term papers, finding relevant material on the Internet, using proper email etiquette, accessing and participating in online chats, and preparing for and taking tests and exams, coping with computer stress, getting help with computer problems, internet research, content and math learning and study strategies, will surface as students prepare for and complete their online assignments.
The session will use PowerPoint slides to overview, describe, and summarize how online instructors may use Just-in-Time Performance Tips (JITPT) to help their students whenever they exhibit a course, learning, or computer problem or concern. Performance Tips are based on the premise that when students exhibit a problem or request help with a course activity, the instructor can immediately (Just-in-Time) respond with specific advice to ameliorate or solve it.
Participants will receive prints of PowerPoint slides to aid their note making during the presentation and to serve, if they wish, as a post session review. Instead of copying URL's from the slides or receiving paper handouts for references, participants will be able to access a website to view and print the references when they return to their institutions. In addition, participants will have access to the Performance Tip icon along with over 50 performance tips that they can use in their courses. Participants will be able to develop a master list of Performance Tips in a word document from which they can cut and paste from this master list appropriate performance tips into their online course announcements, discussion boards, individual or global email, whenever they note a student learning, course activity, or computer problem.
Although one finds in the literature references to Just in Time Teaching (JITT), the University of North Carolina's Just in Time Tutorials (JITT) and the National Educational Research Policy and Priorities Board's Just in Time Education (JITED). Just-in-Time Performance Tips (JITPT) is a teaching activity that was developed by the presenter from his reading in cybernetics and mathemagenics to support his students immediately with concise, specific, ad helpful feedback as they exhibited a problem or concern in their online activities."

Hoto's Business Spot, Oct. 22, 2007 at http://www.hotosspot.com/2007_10_01_archive.html

"The idea of JIT was created by Taiichi Ono in the year 1950. Taiichi Ono was chief engineer at Toyota and his boss Toyoda Kiichiro wanted the Toyota company to become stronger in the US market. So Taiichi Ono came up with a simple idea. Inventory was defined to be waste. In short, the JIT inventory system is all about to have “the right material, at the right time, at the right place, and in the exact amount” without the safety net of Inventory. This system changed the world of business."

Johnson, E. J. and K.Card. (2007). The Effects of Instructor and Student Immediacy Behaviors in Writing Improvement and Course Satisfaction in a Web-based Undergraduate Course. MountainRise, the International Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Fall, 2007. "Attention to chronemics or temporal immediacy (Timely response to student emails, duration of response, and frequency of messaging) was a key to student course satisfaction."

M. Marselli. (2004). "Lean Manufacturing/Six Sigma." Wire Journal International (february, 2004). PP 1-9.

Christ, F. L. (2000). JIT Performance Tips for Online Students.  Online Course Designers, Instructors & Learning Facilitators

"In my online courses, I use a learning assistance activity to alert students to course problems that they have exhibited and to recommend solutions for them to overcome or obviate the problem. I have named this pedagogical

activity “JIT Performance Tips.”

Each performance tip is announced through an image that precedes the tip. Most tips involve learning and study strategies problems although some tips focus on course management, Internet, or computer competency problems that students exhibit in the online course. JIT Performance Tips are inserted in individual emails, global emails, course announcements, Discussion Board forums, and prelections as needed to alert students to problems that they are exhibiting in the online course.

Hudspeth, D.R. (1992). Just-in-time education, Educational Technology , 32(6), 7-11. "Ted Sanders, co-chairman of the National Educational Research Policy and Priorities Board who helped draft the report, said: 'We need to understand how to develop just-in-time learning strategies that last a lifetime, so that learning opportunities can be structured and delivered exactly when the individual needs them — whether a young child in school or an adult in the workplace."

M. Granger Morgan, "Accreditation and diversity in engineering education," Science, August 31, 1990
"The new flexible space created in the curriculum by the 20% rollback in technical requirements would be used in very different ways by different engineering schools. Following their tradition of diversity, some might focus on advanced specialized technical training; ... some might experiment with radical departures from conventional curricula such as "just in time learning."