Instructional Design Careers
One of the recurring themes on this blog is instructional design careers. These posts are written from my own experiences both as a job seeker and employee and as a former manager hiring instructional designers.
My original series on instructional design careers:
- What Does an Instructional Designer Do?
- Getting Into Instructional Design
- Instructional Design Skills
- Technology Skills
- Professional Organizations and Career Options
- Is instructional design the right career?
- Do Instructional Designers Really Need Technology Skills?
- Two Big Technology Skills
Instructional Design Degrees and Certificates
- Formal or Informal Masters for Instructional Designers?
- Instructional Design Degrees
- Multiple Paths to Instructional Design Careers
- Instructional Design Training Programs
- Instructional Design Certificate or Masters Degree
Freelance and Telecommute
- Telecommute Instructional Design Jobs
- Selling E-Learning as a Freelancer
- Getting Started as a Freelance Instructional Designer
- Tips for Starting to Freelance
- Freelance Instructional Design: More Tips from the Trenches
Other Topics
- Demand for Instructional Designers
- Teacher to Instructional Designer: Interview Questions
- Instructional Design Experience Before Your First Job
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My experience with Instructional Design was a pleasant surprise. An ID class was included with the IT curriculum I had chosen.
I was fortunate to have an excellent instructor, who forced us to expand our thought processes to grasp the detailed concepts of designing instruction.
At the time, I had no prior higher learning experience, and my professional background is fairly blue collar…Landscape design, construction, and maintenance.
Our class split into various teams of roughly four people. My group was assigned with the task of designing an effective teaching tool, for people unfamiliar with basic functions corresponding to a PC keyboard. Our solution was to print a schematic of the keyboard with the pertinent information, on a mouse pad. My contribution was the use of simple color coding on the schematic, to facilitate with the learning process. Each step was given a color, which corresponded to a specific key.
I borrowed the practice from my habit of incorporating color codes, to help clients visualize two dimensional landscape plans.
Our instructor was impressed with our efforts, and I experienced a sense of satisfaction, that was quite unique.
I chose not to pursue an IT career, but I’ve never forgotten the positive experience with that Instructional Design course.
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Thank you for the information. While it is very helpful I need to see an example of an instructional design project.
Check out my portfolio. I have several examples there.