A Job Announcement Analysis of Educational Technology Professional Positions: Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• In Event: D&D - The Instructional Design Profession

Short Description

The purpose of this research was to identify the competencies of an educational technologist via a job announcement analysis. Four hundred job announcements were collected from a variety of databases. Following an emergent theme analysis, we derived 176 knowledge, skill, and ability statements from the job announcements themselves. We coded the frequency to which the competencies occurred in each announcement and summarized the results. Results suggest educational technologists must be competent in multiple areas.

Authors

• Albert Dieter Ritzhaupt, University of Florida

• YoungJu Kang