Professional Development in Multimedia Internet

Professional Development

• Professional development refers to the skills and knowledge attained for both personal development and career advancement
• It encompasses all types of facilitated learning opportunities, including college degrees, formal coursework, conferences, and informal learning opportunities

Overview

• Professional development should be:
  • Intensive
  • Collaborative
  • Ideally incorporating evaluation

Participation

• Various individuals participate in professional development, including:
  • Teachers
  • Military officers and non-commissioned officers
  • Healthcare professionals
  • Lawyers
  • Accountants
  • Engineers
• Many states have professional development requirements for certain professions, such as school teachers
• Professional development credits are named differently from state to state

Approaches

• Formal, or informal, group or individualized approaches
• Formal vocational education, typically post-secondary or poly-technical training, leading to qualifications/credentials
• Pre-service or in-service professional development
• Opportunities can range from a single workshop to a semester-long academic course, offered by various providers
• Approaches include:
  • Case study
  • Consultation
  • Coaching
  • Communities of practice
  • Lesson study
  • Mentoring
  • Reflective supervision
  • Technical assistance

Case Study

• Case study involves presenting students with a case, putting them in the role of a decision maker facing a problem
• Writing in a case study should be precise, clear, concise, engaging, and objective

Consultation

• Consultation involves assisting an individual/group to clarify and address immediate concerns by following a systematic problem-solving process
• Consultation may refer to public consultation or consultation with a doctor, teacher, etc.

Coaching

• Coaching involves enhancing competencies in a specific skill area by providing a process of observation, reflection, and action
• Coaching, with a professional coach, supports an individual in achieving a specific personal or professional result

Communities of Practice

• Communities of practice involve improving professional practice by engaging in shared inquiry and learning with people who have a common goal
• Examples include Stack Overflow and other online communities focused on a particular domain or area

Lesson Study

• Lesson study involves solving practical dilemmas related to intervention/instruction through participation with other professionals in systematically examining practice
• Example: teachers working in a small group, collaborating with one another, and meeting to discuss learning goals, plan an actual classroom lesson, observe how it works in practice, revise, and report on the results to benefit other teachers

Mentoring

• Mentoring involves promoting an individual's awareness and refinement of professional development by providing and recommending structured opportunities for reflection and observation
• Personal developmental relationship between a more experienced/knowledgeable person and a less experienced/knowledgeable person

Reflective Supervision

• Reflective supervision involves supporting, developing, and ultimately evaluating the performance of employees through a process of inquiry, encouraging understanding and articulation of rationale of own practices

Technical Assistance

• Technical assistance involves offering resources and information, supporting networking and change efforts
• Effective technical assistance requires knowledge and skill of the assisting person, ability to apply knowledge to address clients' needs, and good communication skills

Online Professional Development

• 21st-century growth in online professional development
• Content providers incorporate collaborative platforms, discussion boards, and wikis
• Examples include:
  • TED Talks
  • MasterClass
  • MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses)
  • Tutorials (e.g., Photoshop, coding)
  • Foreign language courses (e.g., Duolingo, Babbel)
  • Online learning platforms (e.g., Coursera, edX, Khan Academy)

This quiz covers the definition, overview, participation, approaches, and online professional development in the context of multimedia internet. It encompasses all types of facilitated learning opportunities for personal and career advancement.