Tech Yourself - Using Technology for Professional Development
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This document discusses low-cost options for online professional development including using Twitter, MOOCs, blogs, RSS feeds, podcasts, and LinkedIn. It notes that traditional professional development can be high cost and time intensive, requiring travel, while online options are often lower cost and allow for asynchronous learning. These online tools provide opportunities to engage with a larger professional community, improve skills, and stay up-to-date in one's field of expertise while saving both time and money for individuals and institutions.
Tech Yourself - Using Technology for Professional Development
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- 4. Traditional Professional Development 1. High Cost 2. Travel Often Involved 3. Set Times/Time Intensive 4. Limited Seats
- 5. Online Professional Development 1. Often (but not always) lower cost 2. No travel required 3. Asynchronous opportunities 4. More inclusive
- 6. How do we build organizational capacity and competencies on a limited budget?
- 7. Harnessing technology for professional development.
- 9. Twitter Twitter is a social media platform where participants tweet- write very short posts of 140 characters or less. A Twitter account can help you stay connected to leading thinkers in your field. They will often post their opinions, their recent publications, and what they are reading. This can be a powerful tool for professional development. WARNING: In engaging with Twitter, remember that if you choose to post you are making your opinions public. Engage with Twitter as you would engage in public conversation.
- 10. MOOCs MOOCs, or Massive Online Open Courses, offer a wide and excellent variety of online learning opportunities for professional development. Classes are often created by prestigious institutions and taught by talented instructors. MOOCs provide concrete learning opportunities, and often provide certificates of completion.
- 11. Blogs Following blogs, typically informal web-published content, can be a great way to find out whats trending in your professional area. If you start a blog of your own, you can also create a positive search result for people looking to find out more about your work. Blog platforms like Wordpress, Blogger, and Tumblr provide attractive prebuilt blog set-ups.
- 12. RSS Feeds RSS Feeds are links to the blogs you are interested in. By collecting the feeds/URLs in a tool like Feedly, Pocket, or DiggReader, you can find all the blog content youre interested in at one URL.
- 13. Podcasts Podcasts are audio records, often presented as ongoing programs (think of radio shows). If you have a commute, podcasts may be a wonderful way for you to learn new skills and stay current on trends. Podcasts cover a wide variety of topics, and can be particularly helpful if you are interested in learning a foreign language.
- 14. LinkedIn LinkedIn is a social platform dedicated to networking. It can help you find and organize your full professional network, giving you ready access to the people you met at conferences or through other avenues of professional development.
- 16. For You Opportunity to engage with and network with a larger professional community Improving your employability, adding to your resume Making the case for raises and promotions Keeping up on developments in your area of expertise Saves money Saves time
- 17. For Your Institution Grows internal skills sets Improves quality of workforce Saves money Saves time
- 19. Your Technology for Professional Development To-Do List (your choice): Sign Up for a Twitter Account Start researching popular blogs in your subject area Look at upcoming MOOCs Sign Up for a LinkedIn account