What title / designation do you have?
Feb 01, 2012
Need a little bit of help on this. A part of my team has designation as Content Analyst, and a part as technical authors. Well, we are neither. E learning is the main portfolio our team. We also do a little bit of design support, and help the communication wing of the company... you know, news letters, news blasts, magazine etc.
Do you think `Instructional Designer' will be the correct designation? Any other suggestions that will pretty much encompass most of our responsibilities??
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I really like Clive Shepard's term "Learning Architect" (Great book by the way too!) . http://onlignment.com/thenewlearningarchitect/
When I was with a particular University in their professional development and training department, I designed online learning as an instructional designer but similarly to you, I also designed a LOT of web and print material. My title was Training Specialist.
I prefer Instructional Designer.
We have Training Specialists at our company. They take care of our admin/program support, newsletters and online forums (like SharePoint) and Job Aids. Our Instructional Designers focus on developing eLearning, ILT, Participant Workbooks, etc.
Sr. Instructional Designer. I do mainly elearning and video production, but I also do needs analysis and occasionally design instructor led programs and even build a job aid now and again.
I've also heard the term "Learning Specialist" used a few times. I agree with Mike via Clive. "Learning Architect" sounds much better. But if you are looking for the most general term, "Instructional Designer" is probably the most common.
Have also heard "Learning Specialist" or "E-Learning Specialist".
Education technologist is another position description that covers many areas in this space.
Mine is Associate eLearning Developer and I work with an eLearning Developer (I suppose you could also use Senior eLearning Developer). However recently, my job has focused to being more of a "Lead Content Developer".
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