Instructional Designers: Blogs & Interviews

• Cammy Bean - interview. "I'm an eLearning instructional designer on a quest to get better at what I do. I've been designing corporate training and e-Learning programs for almost 15 years now, serving as an instructional designer, writer, project manager, and multimedia producer. I am currently the VP of Learning Design for Kineo US."
  
  
• Christy Tucker - interview. "I am an instructional designer focused on developing engaging e-learning and blended learning. Although my career has always been related to education in some way, I have bounced around from public school teaching to corporate training and now online instructional design."
  
  
• What does an instructional designer do? - Christy Tucker's career path moved from public school teaching to corporate training and now online instructional design (ID). Her blog describes the many different skills used in her ID job: writing, web design, graphics, collaboration, planning, plus of course, how people learn.
  
  
• How do you convey the role of an instructional designer to clients and subject matter experts? - Tom Kuhlmann, a 15 year veteran in the instructional design field, describes how instructional designers provide value when they’re able to pull the content together to craft courses that are focused and meaningful.
  
  
• Clark Quinn - interview. "I have worked with new media for learning for about 30 years now in a variety of roles focusing on the design of innovative and yet pragmatic solutions. I’ve been an academic teaching interaction design while researching learning technology design, and held several senior management positions in the elearning space.  Learning technology is my passion (I like helping people, and I like doing it through technology since I’m a boy and I like toys), and I’d be doing it even if I were independently wealthy (and you’re welcome to make that happen)."
  
  
• What skills are essential for an instructional designer? - Connie Malamed describes the competencies listed by the International Board of Standards for Training, Performance and Instruction.
  
  
• Why does an instructional designer conduct a needs assessment? - Yvonne Clark, lead instructional designer for the Digital Commons at Penn State, talks about the important role of the instructional designer in conducting a needs assessment and a needs analysis.
  
  
• Finding an Instructional Design Job (mp3 audio file)
  
  Susan Manning and Dan Balzer of the Learning Times Green Room interview instructional designer, Hadiya Nurridin. Hadiya shares her insights on finding a job in instructional design. Hadiya formerly worked as an employee in a large corporation and now freelances as a contractor.