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A silly question about Instructional Designer & Subject Matter Expert
Hi all,
I have read a couple of articles about the job responsibility and role of an ID and have got a few questions that would like to hear everyone's opinions on. And I am aware that the questi...
As i do work on a university as an elearning designer and developer i know firsthand that although the SME's ( teachers and professors ) have all the indepth knowledge they need, they lack the insight in what makes their knowledge and content good digital online learning. The job of the instructional designer is in this case to work with the SME's and convert their knowledge to elearning. Often they have Powerpoint presentations of more then 400 slides they present for a group, and what brings it to life is their story and way of presenting it. When converting the content/PPTs without translating their story to some sort of storyline for elearning it will become a dull non interesting elearning and in the end will fail. Thats the job of the ID. Make sure the story the teacher has to tell comes over.
Hi Math, thanks for sharing your opinion. I guess the keyword that I missed here is "digital". I was assuming that if they (SMEs) can design a course in a face-to-face environment then they should be able to do it anywhere else.
