Who am I?

Nov 09, 2012

Ok guys.. i need some help. I have basically inherited the role of managing our LMS and creating elearning content - and now I am planning to change my job title.

Ideally I would be called 'Elearning manager and instructional designer' - but we only have small name badges

What are you guys called? What do you suggest? 

Prize for the winner :)

26 Replies
Daniel Brigham

Hi, Ant: How about "the Neil Peart of the e-learning universe." Oh, you're right--that would be too long. More seriously,

"Elearning manager" is nice and general and suggests you do other things than develop courses.

"E-learning developer and LMS administrator" is accurate but too long. Maybe that could go on the signature line of your email.

I assume you spend more time developing content than managing the LMS, so I'd lean toward the ID side of things.

Nancy Woinoski

Not sure if this will be much help to you , but I had a boss once who told me the shorter your title, the more important (his words) you are in your organization.

We worked for a very large company and all he had printed on his business card was his first name and company contact information. I asked him why once and he said that when he gives out his card, nobody forgets his name.

Jamie Morgan

I tend to stay away from eLearning in the title - especially if you currently are developing anything for mobile devices or you envision that happening at some point. Keep in mind that mLearning, social media, and many other aspects of learning would not fall into a title that had an eLearning reference. Typically speaking, eLearning has been linked with the typical PC based courses. I've heard some argue that it covers anything electronic, such as mobile and social media, but I think that tends to be more the exception than the norm.

I personally would use something like:

Manager - Learning Applications or

Manager - Learning Programs

An application or program could cover so many areas and allow you to grow within the same title.

Rebecca Fleisch Cordeiro

Regarding your question, Ant, whether anyone outside the L&D world knows what an Instructional Designer is: several years ago, after I rec'd my M. Ed. in Instructional Design (and was very proud of it), my boss wanted to print up business cards for me (he'd just hired me) and wanted to know what I thought my title should be. When I told him Instructional Designer (I was doing..ummm...instructional design) he said "what the heck is that?" and when I explained it to him he said he wasn't going to let me use that title and it wasn't his responsibility to explain to everyone what that meant. So!

I like Steve's suggestion that uses Producer in the title. And I like eLearning also, although I didn't realize that mLearning wasn't  considered part of eLearning.

Looks like maybe we're not being so helpful, eh?

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