Competencies for Web+ISD

“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.

3 comments ↓

#1 Herwig on 02.06.06 at 5:36 am

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

#2 Karla on 02.07.06 at 2:22 am

I think they should know something about games too.

#3 Dennis on 02.08.06 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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