from Joshua Kim's article at Inside Higher Ed.com on April 5, 2016: some of these skills could easily pertain to outreach professions tasked with identifying stakeholders, making valuable resources findable, usable, and known.
MIT report - Online Education: A Catalyst for Higher Education Reforms?
...This report, the final report of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Online Education Policy Initiative, has lots to say about the future of higher education.
The first thing that caught my eye is - Recommendation 3: Support the Expanding Profession of the Learning Engineer.
Have you ever heard the job title learning engineer? I haven't.
At my school, these folks go by the title of instructional designer. At some places they are called learning designers.
According to the MIT report, a learning engineer:
"…. is a creative professional who helps build bridges between fields of education and develops additional infrastructure to help teachers teach and students learn".
"….must integrate their knowledge of a discipline with broad understanding of advanced principles from across the fields of education".
"...must be familiar with state-of-the-art educational technologies, from commercial software to open-source tools, and skilled in the effective use of new online tools."
"…must be able to work with educators, both to create new learning experiences from scratch and to integrate new technologies and approaches into existing experiences, whether online or in-person or both."
Add to that list knowledge of issues related to intellectual property rights and accessibility, high levels of emotional and social intelligence to collaborate with faculty and work directly with students, and fluency in assessment practices and design thinking.
Learning engineers, in the MIT model, are generalists in learning theory and technology competence - but also specialists in a given science or humanities discipline...
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MIT report - Online Education: A Catalyst for Higher Education Reforms?
...This report, the final report of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Online Education Policy Initiative, has lots to say about the future of higher education.
The first thing that caught my eye is - Recommendation 3: Support the Expanding Profession of the Learning Engineer.
Have you ever heard the job title learning engineer? I haven't.
At my school, these folks go by the title of instructional designer. At some places they are called learning designers.
According to the MIT report, a learning engineer:
"…. is a creative professional who helps build bridges between fields of education and develops additional infrastructure to help teachers teach and students learn".
"….must integrate their knowledge of a discipline with broad understanding of advanced principles from across the fields of education".
"...must be familiar with state-of-the-art educational technologies, from commercial software to open-source tools, and skilled in the effective use of new online tools."
"…must be able to work with educators, both to create new learning experiences from scratch and to integrate new technologies and approaches into existing experiences, whether online or in-person or both."
Add to that list knowledge of issues related to intellectual property rights and accessibility, high levels of emotional and social intelligence to collaborate with faculty and work directly with students, and fluency in assessment practices and design thinking.
Learning engineers, in the MIT model, are generalists in learning theory and technology competence - but also specialists in a given science or humanities discipline...
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