Additional elements in Mind Map Exercise 3.3

Mind map
After reading the article, Neal M, and Morgan .,J (2012)  " The Professionalization of Everyone ? A Comparative Study of the Development  of the Professions in the United Kingdom and Germany",
European Sociological Review  , Vol. 16, No.1 , 9-26

I have added the variables of

1. Evolution of the E-learning professional

2. Spins off from the above to include- history, university qualifications, continous professional development, vocational,  government intervention , top down or bottom up approach .

Mind Map Activity 3.3

Mind Map of What makes a E-learning Professional 


What is notable from my readings of what makes an E-learning professional is that

1. Regular Employment that a person derives from doing a practice , and that a professional usually belongs to an association or bodies of persons who practices the same .

2. E-learning professionals depends on the definitions of what is a E-learning professional

3.  Stakeholders are involved .

4. Quality is synonymous with being a professional.

Supplementary Activity 3.2

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Zorah -PDP needs analysis grid- Technology Related Skills

	How do you rate your own: Technology related skills	Yourself compared with other lecturers in the Faculty of Business and Management					Comment
		Complete novice	Below average	Average	Above average	Expert
1	Web searching skills				/		Do this for research work
2	Awareness of portals and electronic journals			/			Use electronic journals for research
3	Experience of audio and visual facilities of the web; Netmeeting, Skype, digital photos , webcasting, podcasting			/			Experience only podcast, iLectures, Skype
4	Ease wit communicating without ever meeting face to face			/			Have to supervise postgrad students face to face
5	Ability to master new software and new applications,, and to quickly identify the benefits for any particular context		/
6	Interest and enthusiasm for pursuing serendipitous discoveries on the web			/			Time constraint
7	Ability to cope with large amounts of information and discern what is essential – in short to find the nuggets among the dross				/		Yes
8	Online communication skills ability to give sensitive feedback and critical comments on students work			/			I do try to be encouraging with students in E-forums
9	Understanding of online course design :how to write online teaching material, how to design online activities, how to transform teaching or training material for online environment		/				This needs improvement but have tried Moodles system in online teaching
10.	Skills in developing online community: what works and what doesn’t; providing focus, animating online groups, developing collaborative activities		/				Need to improve on this
11.	Awareness of existing research on e-learning, online communities , online training		/				ditto
12.	Knowledge of the debate about learning objects; repositories, metadata, IMS standards	/					None
13.	Understanding of the processes for making online material accessible to people with disabilities	/		/			None
14.	Awareness of Open Content developments ; leaders, take-up, rationale and awareness of the Open Source movement		/				Some awareness of Open Sources movement
15.	Experience of various e-learning platforms : different facilities offered by the major contenders	/					None
16.	Understanding of the issues surrounding plagiarism and methods of prevention including assignment design and software detection			/			Yes have some understanding
17.	Understanding of digital copyright issues: what is allowable and what is not; how to obtain copyright clearance.			/			ditto
18.	Awareness of games and gaming in the online context; what skills are developed through playing online games ?			/			ditto
19.	Understanding of bandwidth and knowledge of the benefits of broadband for e-learning			/			Some understanding, yes
20.	Awareness f different models of elearning; distributed learning . blended learning , online learning			/			Aware of blended learning because this is what is practiced in my university