If you’re new to the e-learning field, you might soon realize that people often assume you have some kind of magical power on the ready: they not only expect you to design the content, they a...
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What's sad to me is that...all of these should be common sense in a graphic artist/design world. Who is doing this and how are they getting away with it?
I recently mentored a senior from a local high school who was interested in graphic design. These are the very first things I mentioned to her, along with several classic art principles.
I'm currently an instructional designer/developer who also creates all supporting materials - including graphics - for our projects. It's helped tremendously and saved our organization a lot of money by not having to hire a development team. But the lessons I learned 20 years ago in advertising still apply today, so, again, it makes me wonder...what, exactly, are they teaching upcoming graphic artists that they need to be told this?
LOL!
I recently mentored a senior from a local high school who was interested in graphic design. These are the very first things I mentioned to her, along with several classic art principles.
I'm currently an instructional designer/developer who also creates all supporting materials - including graphics - for our projects. It's helped tremendously and saved our organization a lot of money by not having to hire a development team. But the lessons I learned 20 years ago in advertising still apply today, so, again, it makes me wonder...what, exactly, are they teaching upcoming graphic artists that they need to be told this?
LOL!
Hi James!
Unfortunately, a lot of IDs have no graphic design training at all, which is why we see still a lot of courses like these.
Unfortunately, a lot of IDs have no graphic design training at all, which is why we see still a lot of courses like these.
- Nope, no graphic design training in my ID Master's coursework. The program was centered on pedagogy and andragogy rather than the art (eLearning developer) side, unfortunately.
- Makes total sense and is the case for most people!
- :)
I keep telling my immediate boss how lucky he is; I come from an educational background (secondary science teacher) who then moved into advertising and web development. With 20 years' experience in graphic and web design and development, along with some dabbling in audio/video production, topped off with a Master's Degree in Curriculum Development specializing in ID Technology, he doesn't need to have a development team along with an ID.
But, you ARE right. The courses I am rebuilding from the previous team of "ID" professionals is WAY out of line of what would be considered ok practices let alone best practices. To top it off, these two also built on the same template, adding to it, but never removing obsolete or unused objects. It took me nearly a month to rebuild and rebrand our courseware material and start making our department look viable again.
I think you hit the nail on the head though; traditional ID education is NOT graphic art or visual design training. I think that needs to be addressed in the future or we're going to wind up with some less-than-favorable material and eLearning.- I think that a lot of ID training assumes that people will be working with teams of graphic designers and developers, which isn't always the case. Hopefully in the future they will start teaching graphic design as well as UI and UX design in these courses, because they are super important concepts for IDs.
- I for one was thrown in the deep end being tasked with designing courses for our organisation on top of my existing role which has nothing to do with design,. I can train people in a classroom setting but this is very different especially when that's not your background. However that how fluid you sometimes have to be in certain organisations. So all this advice is gold to me!
- I'm glad you're finding it useful! I know there are a lot of other people in your shoes as well.
