Mahara+Developing+Content+for+Core+Competencies


 * Developing Content for Core Competencies **

The best way for the student to develop core competencies is to first identify the most potent and valuable work to be displayed. The student should fit any material into the most appropriate core competency. The student should include work from all classes in which exhibits might be posted to demonstrate skill in the designated core competency. If the student follows the skeletal structure of the example above, then the arrangement is as follows:

Communication: Articulate ideas lucidly through traditional forms of print and digital media. For example, students might here include media arts or technical writing assignments.

Ethical Thought: Examine problems of a social, ethical, political, aesthetic, religious, and scientific nature. Students might here include essays from courses in philosophy.

Conceptualization: This category is based on the ability to reason creatively. Examples of the ability to conceptualize may include verbal, visual, and digital evidence of the ability to think creatively.

Multi-disciplinary Investment: This core competency is based on the ability to bring multiple points of view to solve complex problems. Artifacts of multi-disciplinary investment may be the kinds of analysis found senior design studios.

Collaboration: Demonstrate accuracy and efficiency in group settings, including working well in traditional and online settings. Collaborative digital design such as this wiki may be posted as evidence of skill in building community.

Socio-Technical Systems Analysis : Establish competency in drawing research conclusions, particularly in STS-related fields of policy, economics, and culture.

For a model student ePortfolio in Mahara, click here.

By: JE Wilkins, major in Technical Communication and Media