Skills Development and New Media

The certificate programme in Skills Development and New Media focuses on issues in skills-oriented continuing education and innovative forms of learning. Companies increasingly face the challenge of effectively developing and training their staff. They need to bond well-trained employees with the organization, to secure the company’s innovative capability, and to make optimum use of their resources. In this situation, the goal of skills-oriented continuing education is to enable the participants to solve complex problems in a goal-oriented, self-organized way. Based on the principle that skills cannot be taught, but must be developed by the subjects themselves in real decision-making situations, the certificate programme enables you to assimilate and to plan the various stages of skills learning in a practical project in your professional environment. You will learn ways and approaches to support skills-oriented continuing education. The programme focuses on the Internet’s potential for interactive development — “Web 2.0” — with particular attention to collaboration tools.

Learning Outcomes

After completing the certificate programme, you will be able to apply skills assessment and development processes in your professional context. You will be able to evaluate the potential of social software for skills acquisition in your organization, and to form a project design for the implementation of skills development systems with reference to an actual project in your professional sphere of activity.

Target Group

The programme is aimed at persons who want to advance skills and skills development at any level in their company or organization. Furthermore, the programme is designed for people who want to expand their own expertise in this area in regard to their complex professional responsibilities in order to extend the range of their activities.