DEFINING COMPETENCES FOR DIGITAL CURATOR IN ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXTS

There are a number of trends such as, personalized instruction on the Internet, the need to update the information received by students or the decentralized location where learning is provided, which produces new learning needs for organizations and professionals responsible for management. It is not, in this case, to filter what is relevant or not with the intention of alleviating the subjective feeling of chaos, but to remain competitive in a global society, increasingly complex, changing and dependent on knowledge.
This article will analyze the figure and the competence profile of the digital curator, also known as broker of knowledge (Reig, 2010; Freire, 2008; Huang, 2008; Rubel, 2008), in its consideration of appropriate professional for this type of learning processes. Unlike other learner’s profiles for offline systems, the mission of the broker of knowledge is to maintain the relevance of the information flowing on the Internet supported by specific tools to create adequate information environments. As competitive value, this profile is responsible for updating the organization and its training curriculum, in a kind of knowledge is now vital to ensure competitiveness in a knowledge-based society. Finally, we discuss some of the knowledge management models that supports the presence of this profile in the field of organizations.