Institutional Web Management Workshop 2006:
Quality Matters
Workshop Session

Workshop Session B9: "'Show us 'yer medals!' - Who needs Professional Development?"

This page provides details for the workshop session on "'Show us 'yer medals!' - Who needs Professional Development?".

Title:

'Show us 'yer medals!' - Who needs Professional Development?

Facilitator:

Chris Young, Netskills, University of Newcastle and Paul Trueman, Netskills, University of Newcastle

Abstract:

You may be new to a Web-role or you may be more experienced, with a set of useful skills. Either way, increasingly there is a need for recognised individual development and accreditation in order to progress in within your organisation and with your own career.

Alternatively you may be dealing daily with others who do not appear to have the skills they claim! This could be slowing down or reducing the overall quality of the service you are employed to provide. The process may be in place but if the staff required to keep it moving cannot demonstrate the required skill, who ends up doing all the work?. Would it benefit you to have accredited content providers to call apon?

This session will discuss the issues surrounding the topic of training and accreditation for all providers and developers of Web content and systems. It will provide an opportunity to appraise current programmes and inform the development of a set of recognised qualifications, designed to meet the needs of our community.

• Is accreditation important?
• Who benefits?
• Who recognises it?
• What is currently available to people like you?
• How, when and where is it delivered?
• What key skills are required and by whom?
• What might happen in the future?

There will also be the opportunity to contribute development of a set of recognised qualifications, designed to meet the needs of the community.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of the session participants will have gained:

• an awareness of a range of professional development programmes available to them and the others they may be working with

Rating:

Technical:

Hands on:

Room Requirements:

PC, data projector, whiteboard and flipchart.

Venue:

2.28

Time:

Thursday 15^th June 16.15-17.45

Contact Details

Chris Young Netskills University of Newcastle Email: Chris.Young@newcastle.ac.uk Phone: +44 191 222 5002

Paul Trueman Netskills University of Newcastle Email: Paul.Trueman@newcastle.ac.uk Phone: +44 191 222 5002