Are you an "e-learning team of one"? 🤔

Hi Noele,

I work in higher education and am absolutely a team of one. Depending upon the project, I deal with everything from curriculum development to deployment, and all that is in-between. Our univeristy reorganized and consolidated many of the instructional designers once in the past, but there are still a few loners scattered about. Sadly, given the current climate, I anticipate becoming a team of zero far sooner than ever before.

I am a team of one and just recently completed my first Storyline project.  It was new to me and I watched a lot of Articulate and Yukon Learning trainings to lead me on the right path.  Content was dumped on me, not organized, and initially someone was there to guide me, although this person really wasn't the SME.  She was asked to collect data that she was unfamiliar with.  She left the project not long after I'd started on it.  Our agency supervisors believe it took too long to develop the training, which I was trying to do while doing my full-time duties and really didn't have time to dedicate.  This was assigned as an "other" task.  Imagine the expectation that there are no SMEs, you're new to Articulate, you're still learning "how and the verbiage" to be able to search for the right thing when you want to develop with more interaction within e-Learning Heroes or the Articulate sight, and you were never part of the initial "ask" or what the real need was, all while trying to develop something WOW so that your agency won't get rid of the Articulate program because it takes too long to develop training.  To be fair, it did take a long time.  There were days I was able to work an hour, sometimes two, to develop.  Other times there were months I didn't get a chance to look at it.  Hard to be consistent and keep the design process and creative juices going when you can't remember even where you left off working months ago!  And to be fair, an hour or two isn't enough time to focus on something brand new with content that makes no sense, and no SME to guide me.  The training is completed, and I'll admit, I'm proud of training I developed, and the partners that guided me when I need it.  So grateful to my e-Learning Community of Practice, staff at Yukon Learning, and Articulate, for nudging me along in the right direction!  Can't wait to do more, if my license is renewed.  I love the learning and growth I've accomplished, even if no one in my agency can appreciate it.  

I was able to share with a supervisor, exactly what the design process should look like, partners involved and how it should really work (not what we did this time).  They revised it to something that does not include instructional design for online learning, I'm not a part of the process, and I speculate, we will be eliminating our license.  They believe training development should be done within a two-week period of time.  I love the training development process.  It's really a struggle for me to lose what I've learned and not be able to continue to grow it with care.

Grow in everything you do Noele.  You will find your way. 

Team of one here. Using Storyline, Rise, Adobe suite, CenarioVR and Microsoft for both internal and external training. Manage and create all assets. Started using AI voices, AI image generation, hit and miss. Don't use a lot of video. Usually have a subject matter expert. Trying to get everyone to proof check using Review360 but they normally revert to emails and Word. Always eager to try out and use the new features.

Team of one! I am constantly researching content ideas, best practices, etc. and am self-taught. I haven't spread my wings to Rise, YET, but hoping to with our Security Compliance courses in the fall! All of my content is peer reviewed for grammar, font, colors, etc. before sending to stakeholder for their review. 

About to go from a team of zero to a team of one here - launching a learning design business. 

I spent many years in the corporate training world in various capacities.  I had no formal training, but was thrown into things from functional/procedural training, to elearning design, onboarding programs, and designing and delivering software training for a conversion.

When I took time off with my kids, I took the opportunity for some formal training in learning design, and taught myself Storyline and Rise.  I continue to learn anything and everything I can about the learning design world, and am always on the look out for best practices and content ideas to build my portfolio.