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Summary of the salary report (salaries declined slightly) and a calculator where you can enter variables and see a baseline salary.
Although this is geared towards web developers rather than instructional designers, this could apply to our field as well.
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Beginning relationships with customers at a high price makes the statement: “we’re good at what we do and we know it.” Fighting with a competitor over a low price says “I’m uncertain about my abilities, so I’ll take what I can get.”
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Price by the service, not by the hour.
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Common networking mistakes. The suggested strategy is to give before you take: "Giving is the only way to establish a real connection and relationship."
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Here’s what not to do when you’re trying to expand or leverage your network:
1. Try to take before you give.
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2. Assume others should care about your needs.
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Drivers that will change the landscape of work and key skills needed in the next 10 years (sense-making, social intelligence, novel & adaptive thinking, cross-cultural competency, new media literacy, virtual collaboration, etc.)
Harold Jarche on freelance e-learning work. Includes a table of types of work and a range of fees. (Updated from previous link since the site was reorganized.)
Calculator based on the data from the eLearning Guild salary survey report. Choose your variables and see the average salary.
Learning Solutions Magazine article on online education programs for instructional designers. Compares certificates to masters degrees and PhDs. Includes ideas on how to pick a program that is the right fit for you. The table at the end with a list of schools, programs, and costs is very helpful.
Tips on how to enter the field of e-learning or instructional design, with ideas for networking, job searching, and improving your skills
Check the comments for responses from people who have ID degrees or certificates and share their thoughts
Tips on using LinkedIn more effectively while job searching
My interview with the UW-Stout ID certificate students in March 2010. Students contributed possible questions on a wiki, then decided as a group what the top questions would be for me to answer.
Slides from a presentation on ID skills, specifically at the intersection of instructional design and IT. Especially interesting were the comparisons of word clouds from descriptions of graduate programs in ID with word clouds from ID job descriptions.
Karl Kapp revisits the value of instructional design degrees, arguing that people who accidentally find themselves in the field should decline to develop learning until they've been trained. Karl also identifies what he feels is the most important skill instructional designers should have.
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So, to me, the most important skill an instructional designer can have is being able to apply instructional strategies. To know when to use a mnemonic and when to use an analogy. When to model the behavior to be learned and when to provide a check list. When Constructivism is a good theorietical underpinning for a topic and when a Cognitivism-based approach is necessary.
Instructional designers add value by serving as catalyst who accelerate the process of learning for individuals.
Common objections to telecommuting and how to respond to them. Good answers, but I wish citations were given rather than just "Statistics show..." or "Recent surveys have shown..." If you used these arguments, you'd need to do some additional research to back up the claims.
Notes on a DevLearn session on how people got into instructional design and what they feel are the important skills. Out of 25+ IDs, only 2 had advanced degrees in ID.
E-learning service providers can register on this site for free in different categories. Companies looking for e-learning solutions can submit RFPs and find people to work with.
Info on an organization looking for volunteer instructional designers/developers to create content for job seekers. They are OK with content being used in a portfolio, so this is a good place to gain some experience and get something to show for a portfolio.
A collection of conferences & events for ed tech & e-learning, plus some job boards
Good points on acting like real professionals, not just "order takers" when developing training/learning
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You wouldn't hire an interior designer only to inform.them that you've already chosen all the colour schemes and furnishings; you wouldn't engage an accountant and then explain to them the way you wanted them to process your figures; you wouldn't employ a fitness trainer and then tell them what to include in your workout; you wouldn't buy a dog and then insist on doing all the barking.
So why, then, do we continue to encounter situations in which line managers tell the guys from l&d exactly what they want in terms of learning interventions, with the expectation that the they'll simply take those instructions and run.
I've felt for a while that job security was a myth; this backs up that general feeling and shows how the workplace and employment has changed since the 80s.
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