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Transitioning from Teaching to Instructional Design

As my day job I teach in an instructional design and technology graduate program. I have a LOT of students that are teachers looking to make a career change to instructional design. There’s a lot to like about instructional design! The responsibilities can vary from position to position, you can design for adults or kids […]

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ID Careers: Instructional Design in Higher Education

There are instructional designers in every field! But their population may be growing the most quickly in higher education. Traditionally, academic culture has valued subject matter knowledge over teaching expertise, so that even at teaching universities, professors are hired for their subject expertise and it matters little whether they make for good instructors. Enter instructional […]