Wednesday, July 1

New Skills for Learning Professionals

This month's big question comes out of a discussion that I've been having in various forms over the past few years. In a Learning 2.0 world, where learning and performance solutions take on a wider variety of forms and where churn happens at a much more rapid pace, what new skills and knowledge are required for learning professionals?



New Skills and Knowledge for Learning Professionals?


I know that there's already quite a bit out there on this topic, so please point us to existing information on the topic.

How to Respond:

Option 1 - Put your thoughts in a comment below. Likely there can be some pretty good thoughts left via a comment.

Option 2 -

Step 1 - Post in your blog (please link to this post).
Step 2 - Put a comment in this blog with an HTML ready link that I can simply copy and paste (an HTML anchor tag). I will only copy and past, thus, I would also recommend you include your NAME immediately before your link. So, it should look like:

Tony Karrer - e-Learning 2.0

or you could also include your blog name with something like:

Tony Karrer - e-Learning 2.0 : eLearningTechnology

Responses So Far:

32 comments:

Prof. Dr. Mohamed Amine Chatti said...

Mohamed Amine Chatti - New Skills for Learning Professionals

Harold Jarche said...

Now you've motivated me to update my 2008 article on Skills 2.0 for learning professionals. Things change quickly.

Clive Shepherd said...

A response to this month's question from Clive Shepherd: http://clive-shepherd.blogspot.com/2009/07/big-question-what-new-skills-and.html

jay said...

The main job is to understand the business or organization. No more hiding out behind learning doctrine. Lots more on this topic on Informal Learning blog.

Michael Hanley said...

E-Learning Curve Blog: Learning Professionals’ Skills 2.0 – a business perspective on the Big Question.
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natalie laderas-kilkenny said...

Here's my post What Should Learning Professionals Know Today?. Thanks for making me think on my day off :)

gminks said...

I'm obviously ready for another trip home, here's my post: Gina from Adventures in Corporate Education

Jane Bozarth said...

Jane Bozarth - New Skills for Learning Professionals

Blogger In Middle-earth said...

Blogger in Middle-earth: New Strategies, New Skills? A Big Question

Clark said...

Clark Quinn: Web 2.0 Learning Skills

JD. said...

JD - eLearning Dude

Tom Gram said...

Tom Gram:
New Skills for the Learning Pro?

The upsycho said...

Whoops! I seem to have linked to the wrong post!

Do your job!

Owen Ferguson said...

Peter's Blog: New Skills for Learning Professionals

Shrini said...

Learning Practice Blog by Vasan: Skills for Learning Professional

Unknown said...

David Mallon: The Disciplines of Modern Enterprise Learning

Sahana Chattopadhyay said...

In ID Reflections: Synthesizing a few key points from a few of the responses...points that I identified with. This is the first part..

Sahana Chattopadhyay said...

Sahana: Here's a post from Eric Davidove (http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs) that talks about the vanishing concept of expertise...

Sahana Chattopadhyay said...

Sahana: Reading different posts related to this question took me to 12 Learning Predictions for 2009 from Tony Karrer. Was trying to map the predictions to the new skills many have mentioned and thought it would be useful to share the link here again. 12 Learning Predictions for 2009

Tony Karrer said...

Sahana - thanks for the pointers/contributions.

On Eric's - the link doesn't really work - is there another URL?

On the fantastic post (by me) - I'm not quite connecting the dots that you are seeing.

Maybe a comment or another post.

Look forward to continue conversation.

Gabi said...

Gabi Witthaus, Beyond Distance at Leicester: New skills for learning professionals - highlights from the discussion so far

Leonardo Coelho said...

Hi, I talk from Brazil and this is a post that takes into account the Brazilian scenario.

Leonardo Coelho - Conhecimento XXI/ Learning in the 21st Century

Terry Freedman said...

Terry Freedman: What makes a good teacher as far as technology is concerned?

Anthony said...

Anthony Montalvo: Nuevas competencias y conocimientos

Jenise Cook said...

Jenise Cook - My Thoughts on New Skills for Learning Professionals

test said...

I summarized the possible job careers and skill sets that new learning professionals must prepare for.

Collaborative Learning Anthropologist and Specialist (CLA): Enterprise 2.0, Web 2.0 and Learning Career or Job Opportunities


http://vignettestraining.blogspot.com/2007/11/collaborative-learning-anthropologist.html

Character Education said...

Thats true, i really want to appreciate this effort, as we are going to improve every field of our lives, so this is the basic things, if it improves we can easily get our desired results, thanks for giving us this chance to share our ideas with you.

Power Learning 21 said...

It's always best understand the basics of everything and to adopt to changes.

Unknown said...

Larry Irons -- eLearning 2.0, Social Media, and Co-Creation of Learning Content

Vidyut Kale said...

Vidyut Kale - New Skills and Knowledge for Learning Professionals

Tridib said...

Tridib Roy Chowdhury: Learning 2.0 - Make learning deliver

sirvan said...

@Character Education

yeah, you're right.