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LECTURE 9: PROFESSIO NAL DEVELOPME NT SKM4263: Multimedia Internet OUTLINE  Definition  Overview  Participation  Approaches  Online professional development DEFINITION  Professional development Skills and knowledge attained for both...

LECTURE 9: PROFESSIO NAL DEVELOPME NT SKM4263: Multimedia Internet OUTLINE  Definition  Overview  Participation  Approaches  Online professional development DEFINITION  Professional development Skills and knowledge attained for both personal development and career advancement  Encompasses all types of facilitated learning opportunities From college degrees Formal coursework Conferences Informal learning opportunities OVERVIEW  Professional development should be: Intensive Collaborative Ideally incorporating evaluation WHO PARTICIPATES AND WHY?  Who engages in professional development?  Teachers, military officers and non-commissioned officers, health care professionals, lawyers, accountants and engineers  E.g: many American states have professional development requirements for school teachers  Arkansas teachers  60 hours of documented professional development (annual)  USIM? WHO PARTICIPATES AND WHY?  Professional development credits are named differently from state to state  Teachers:  Indiana: 90 Continuing Renewal Units (CRUs) per year  Massachusetts: 150 Professional Development Points (PDPs)  Georgia: 10 Professional Learning Units (PLUs)  Nurses:  US/Canada/UK: formal and informal professional development (earning Continuing education units, or CEUs) to maintain professional registration  Other groups  engineering and geoscience regulatory bodies  mandatory professional development requirements WHO PARTICIPATES AND WHY?  Individuals may participate in professional development because of… An interest in lifelong learning A sense of moral obligation To maintain and improve professional competence Enhance career progression Keep abreast of new technology and practice To comply with professional regulatory organizations APPROACHES  Formal, or informal, group or individualized  Formal vocational education  Typicallypost-secondary or poly-technical training  Leading to qualifications/credentials  Required to obtain/retain employment  Pre-service or in-service professional development  Pre-service: remuneration and promotional opportunities  In service: Continuous Professional Development APPROACHES  Opportunities can range from A single workshop  A semester-long academic course  Services offered by various providers  Varying widely with respect to the philosophy, content, and format of the learning experiences  Independent or offered by HR  Professional development on the job:  Enhance process/leadership skills, task skills  effectiveness skills, team functioning skills, and systems thinking skills. EXAMPLE APPROACHES  Case study  Consultation  Coaching  Communities of practice  Lesson study  Mentoring  Reflective supervision  Technical assistance CASE STUDY  Case study  Teaching approach that consists presenting the students with a case, putting them in the role of a decision maker facing a problem  The writing in a case  Precise,yet always clear and concise  Engaging and interesting to the reader  Always be objective  E.g.?  http://businesscasestudies.co.uk/ CONSULTATION  Consultation  Assist an individual/group to clarify and address immediate concerns by following a systematic problem-solving process  Consultation may refer to: Publicconsultation Consultation (doctor, teacher)  E.g.?  http://symptoms.webmd.com/ COACHING  Coaching  Enhance competencies in a specific skill area by providing a process of observation, reflection, and action  Coaching, with a professional coach  Practice of supporting an individual  Referred to as the client or mentee or coachee  Process of achieving a specific personal or professional result  E.g.?  https://www.masterclass.com/ COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE  Communities of Practice  Improve professional practice by engaging in shared inquiry and learning with people who have a common goal  Evolve naturally  Members' common interest in a particular domain/area  Created specifically with the goal of gaining knowledge related to their field  E.g.?  http://stackoverflow.com/ LESSON STUDY  Lesson Study  Solve practical dilemmas related to intervention/instruction through participation with other professionals in systematically examining practice  Example: teachers  Work in a small group, collaborate with one another  Meet to discuss learning goals  Plan an actual classroom lesson  “research lesson”  Observe how it works in practice  Revise and report on the results to benefit other teachers MENTORING  Mentoring  Promote an individual’s awareness and refinement of professional development by providing and recommending structured opportunities for reflection and observation  Personal developmental relationship A more experienced/knowledgeable person helps a less experienced/knowledgeable person  E.g.?  https://findamentor.com/ REFLECTIVE SUPERVISION  Reflective Supervision  Support, develop, and ultimately evaluate the performance of employees  Through a process of inquiry  Encourages understanding and articulation of rationale of own practices  Counselling/psychotherapy background Designed to engage people in promoting professional development TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE  Technical Assistance  Offering resources and information, supporting networking and change efforts  Effective technical assistance  Knowledge and skill of the assisting person  Ability to apply knowledge to address clients’ needs  Good communication skills  ONLINE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT  21st Century  significant growth!  Content providers Incorporate collaborative platforms  discussion boards and wikis Encouraging and facilitating interaction Optimizing training effectiveness EXAMPLES OF.. Online personal developme nt? EXAMPLES TED TALK – STANFORD PROF  What we’re learning from online education  Daphne Koller, PhD  Stanford professor  Co-founder of Coursera  https://www.ted.com/talks/daphne_koller _what_we_re_learning_from_online_educ ation ONLINE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT  Increased interest due to Economic pressures Greater conviction of effectiveness  Online vs traditional sources/providers Augment instead of replace existing options Can widen access to topics/scope MASTERCLASS EXAMPLES  MOOCs  Tutorials  GOALS  Facebook  Seismik Makan  OpenLearning  Tasty  USIM MOOCs  YouTube  edX  Photoshop Tutorials  FutureLearn  Coding  Codeacademy  Apple iTunes U  Udemy  Coursera  Code School  Khan Academy  Udacity  Foreign languages  Duolingo  MOOC List  Babbel TED TALK – KHAN ACADEMY  Let’s use video to reinvent education  Salman Khan  Founder of Khan Academy  https://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_ let_s_use_video_to_reinvent_education DECISIONS https://www.facebook.com/TED/videos/ 1017533615085611/ FRESH GRADS SUMMARY  Professional development  skills and knowledge attained for both personal development and career advancement  Professional development should be intensive, collaborative, and ideally incorporates evaluation  Various people participate due to individual and career-related reasons  Approaches range from case studies to technical assistance  Online professional development is gaining popularity Questio ns? Mentimete r ATTENDANCE  Go to current Discord channel  #attendance-forms