In preparation for my session I watched the first session which happened last week. The presenters described the results of a delphi study (and another study) that had just been conducted (accepted for publication but not yet in print) that discussed the core competencies of non-formal educators needed for the year 2015. Here is the list:
- Communication Skills
- Diversity
- Interpersonal relationships
- Professionalism
- Resource management
- Self direction
- Teamwork and leadership
- Thinking and problem solving
- Teaching
- Information technology
- Technology adoption and application
- Research
- Program planning, development, and evaluation
- Subject matter expertise
- Volunteer management
- Continuous learning
- Customer service
- Flexibility and change
- Organizational knowledge
- Understanding stakeholders and communities
- Management and supervision
- Marketing
My reaction was to start creating my own list of the core competencies that will be needed in five years for a learning intermediary. What are the needed competencies for a networked economy where social learning is exploding? I had a pretty good start on a list when I realized that this might make an interesting crowd sourcing activity. Let's see if we can put together a list that really has a future focus, and I promise to use it in the seminar next Thursday.
Have at it-- either comment here, or over on Google Buzz where this post will be fed. Thanks!!!!
The post can be found here on Google Buzz: Crowd sourcing a future focused list of core competencies
1 comment:
nice article
Thanks,
smm
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