I am curious to learn whether those of you who work with outside faculty or subject matter experts include your name/title in the final product? I am in an academic institution and create my own courses as well as work with faculty to develop online learning courses from their power point or word document content. What is the standard practice?
I can't speak for faculty or academics, but as a freelancer, I sometimes include my name/company name in the credits section of the course if the customer approves.
Example: Instructional Design/e-Learning Development by: xxxxxx
That's a great question, and possibly one without a single right answer for all situations.
More often than not I've not included my name and/or title in the e-learning projects I've worked on. And most of the projects I've seen from others also don't include that information unless it's a promotional project. That said, I have on occasion seen credits at the end of a course that mention the instructional designer/e-learning developer, so it's not necessarily wrong to do.
If you're looking at creating a credits screen for the project that mentions the other contributors, then it makes sense to include yourself on it too. And if you're not sure if you'd like to add a credits section or not, your academic institution may have some recommendations. Also, much like Robert mentioned asking if his freelancing clients were okay with a credits screen, you could always do the same with the faculty or subject matter experts you're working with.
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I can't speak for faculty or academics, but as a freelancer, I sometimes include my name/company name in the credits section of the course if the customer approves.
Example: Instructional Design/e-Learning Development by: xxxxxx
Richard
Hi Leslie,
That's a great question, and possibly one without a single right answer for all situations.
More often than not I've not included my name and/or title in the e-learning projects I've worked on. And most of the projects I've seen from others also don't include that information unless it's a promotional project. That said, I have on occasion seen credits at the end of a course that mention the instructional designer/e-learning developer, so it's not necessarily wrong to do.
If you're looking at creating a credits screen for the project that mentions the other contributors, then it makes sense to include yourself on it too. And if you're not sure if you'd like to add a credits section or not, your academic institution may have some recommendations. Also, much like Robert mentioned asking if his freelancing clients were okay with a credits screen, you could always do the same with the faculty or subject matter experts you're working with.