Competencies for Web+ISD

by Jay Cross on February 5, 2006

“The Web changes everything.” Training included. Yet most instructional designers earned their credentials long before the advent of blogs, RSS, podcasts, microcontent, wikis, Google, and mash-ups.

What Web competencies should generalist instructional designers have under their belts? Dave Lee and I have been noodling on this as we plan the Unworkshops we’ll begin offering later this month. Here is our working assumption:

What do you think? What’s missing? Leave us a comment.

Mind you, we’re constrained by the scope of our introductory workshop: six 90-minute sessions and many exercises spread over two to three weeks. There’s more detail at the Informal Learning Blog.

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Herwig February 6, 2006 at 5:36 am

Microcontent? Creative Commons? The law of unintended uses? Collective intelligence? Oh my, I’m spewing buzzwords again … :)

Karla February 7, 2006 at 2:22 am

I think they should know something about games too.

Dennis February 8, 2006 at 5:04 am

What about social networking (LinkedIn, Ryze, Spoke, etc)? This might already be a subsection under CoPs. These are helpful tools in finding people who are experts in their field (or at least passionate) which leads to new discoveries and connections.

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