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New Skills for Instructional Designers

We had a great time in Orlando at the eLearning Guild’s Learning Solutions Conference & Expo. A big highlight was Cammy’s presentation on Friday with Ellen Wagner of Sage Road Solutions and Koreen Olbrish of Tandem Learning: “New Skills for Instructional Designers.”

 

As Ellen sees it, the practice of eLearning instructional design sits at the intersection of instructional design and IT. ID + IT = eLearning. Take a moment and imagine four pie wedges:

  • Instruction (learning and pedagogy)
  • Design (creative production – writing, graphics, video)
  • Business Intelligence (being able to speak the language of business, analysis and metrics)
  • Technology (architecture and implementation – authoring tools, programming, LMSs)
Many of us ID practitioners entered the field from one angle of that pie. What about you? Did you come in to the field with an aptitude or passion for facilitation and training or writing or learning design?

Now take those four wedges and combine them into one individual and you have a superhero. Or a great eLearning instructional designer who can really make a difference in the business.

What you have is a true eLearning professional.

So where do you want to take your practice? Which pie wedge do you want to eat more of? (We’re thinking some blueberry pie would taste pretty good right now).

We’ve posted the slides from the presentation New Skills for Instructional Designers up on slideshare.

 

       

 


And be sure to check out this video of Ellen Wagner presenting her six minute and forty second overview of “The Secret Handshakes of Instructional Design”. Cammy did some guerilla style flip video recording right from on stage – go, user generated content, go!