eLearning Developer Skills

As a manager in an eLearning development team I episodically review the skills required by colleagues in order for them to carry out their job confidently and competently. Googling this I was surprised how little there was out there to support managers in their task.  There were quite a few blogs out there asking the very question I am asking here - not much from professional organisations.  Maybe I should be turning this on its head and looking at eLearning skills in general rather than focusing on the role - or just take it after working 7 years in the area as a manager I pretty much know.

So here is my quick overview of the skills required:

A knowledge and understanding of:

• Learning and teaching approaches
• How to integrate learning technologies within learning and teaching
• Curriculum and course design
• Accessibility
• Copyright
• Current issues in learning and teaching and eLearning

Skills:

• Content creation and delivery e.g. VLEs; web skills; audio/video production social networking technologies; re-purposing content (I slipped this one in) -
• Training and support skills within context of learning and technology 
• Project management 
• Ability to work as part of a team as well as independently 
• Problem solving
• Proactive with respect to professional development  
• Articulate simply complex issues
• Presentation skills 
• Ability to communicate with individuals from different professional backgrounds
• Ability to work flexibly and to deadlines 
• Ability to prioritise work

And overall tenacity and enthusiasm.  There may be greater emphasis on some of the above depending on context, organisation's priorities and also the grade of the job - which is something managers need to bear in mind when writing a job description.