Competencies

Below I have emphasized the competencies represented in the portfolio:

Communication Skills

• Communicate effectively in written, oral, and visual formats.
• Produce clear, concise, and grammatically correct messages.
• Produce visuals that adhere to the principles of message design.
• Deliver effective and engaging presentations.
• Facilitate meetings to achieve agenda and goals.
• Use appropriate tools to communicate with learners, clients, and other stakeholders.
• Apply effective questioning and facilitation techniques.
• Practice active listening.

Analysis Skills

• Analyze learning and performance problems to recommend appropriate solutions. 
• Use a variety of analysis practices such as performance system analysis, needs assessment, goal, task, learner, and context analysis.
• Use appropriate data collection methods and tools to conduct analyses.
• Determine subordinate and prerequisite knowledge and skills.
• Analyze content from a variety of human and non-human sources.
• Use analytics to address learning and performance questions.
• Estimate costs and benefits for proposed solutions.
• Write analysis reports and disseminate findings to stakeholders.

Design Skills

• Apply learning theory and systems thinking to design practice.
• Design interventions to address learning and performance.
• Design a curriculum, program, or learning solution.
• Work with subject-matter experts and other team members to design interventions.
• Align outcomes, strategies, and assessments.
• Generate appropriate instructional strategies and activities.
• Apply interaction design principles.
• Design assessments to measure learning and performance.
• Identify the scope and sequence for instructional solutions.
• Use visual design principles appropriately.
• Generate design documents and disseminate findings to stakeholders.
• Select, modify, or create effective design models.
• Provide a rationale for design decisions.

Technology and Media Skills

• Select and use appropriate technology and media for specific outcomes.
• Develop instructional materials using a variety of media (e.g., print, audio-visual, multimedia).
• Develop and use web-based instruction, e-learning, social media, and content management tools.
• Analyze the characteristics of existing and emerging technology.
• Use technology correctly for professional communication purposes.
• Use technology tools in the design process.
• Analyze the cost and benefit of technology and media use.
• Provide a rationale for technology and media decisions.

Evaluation and Research Skills

• Design and develop formative and summative evaluation plans.
• Conduct a formative evaluation of an instructional intervention.
• Write a proposal for a program evaluation.
• Apply appropriate qualitative and quantitative data collection methods.
• Construct valid and reliable data collection tools.
• Collect, analyze, and summarize data.
• Develop a communication, implementation, and monitoring plan.
• Manage the evaluation process.
• Generate evaluation reports and disseminate findings to stakeholders.
• Provide a rationale for evaluation decisions.

Management Skills

• Develop a management plan.
• Generate a budget.
• Allocate resources.
• Establish project scope and goals.
• Write proposals to obtain resources.
• Identify and resolve management issues
• Manage project personnel.
• Collaborate with team members, clients, and stakeholders.
• Use appropriate management tools.

Personal and Interpersonal Skills

• Collaborate effectively with others.
• Give and receive constructive feedback.
• Build positive relationships with team members, clients, and other stakeholders
• Recognize and accommodate individual and cultural differences.
• Adhere to legal guidelines and ethical standards of the profession.
• Stay current about advances in instructional systems and learning technology.