Menu

Category: Content Development

Results of Unofficial Salary Survey of eLearning/Content Development Jobs – 2008

August 24, 2008
| No Comments
| Categories: Content Development, eLearning, Instructional Design, Jobs, Recruitment, Salary, SlideShare, Survey

Update: See 2009 elearning and content development salary data here.Announcing the analysis of the Unofficial Salary Survey of elearning and content development jobs in India. This was a direct survey of individual respondents. No company response was sought. I used viral marketing to promote survey. This included an initial direct mailer and then posting on eCube Facebook and various Orkut groups. Orkut seems to have a larger Indian audience.The survey received total 62 responses, including 8 incomplete responses. Most responses were from the NCR region, followed by Mumbai. Pune, Bangalore…

Read More

What is Blended Learning?

July 6, 2008
| 6 Comments
| Categories: Asynchronous learning, Blended learning, Content Development, Design, eLearning, Synchronous learning

Clive Shepherd redefines his own definition of blended learning in his recent post.A blended learning solution mixes social contexts for learning (self-study, one-to-one, small group, larger community) with the aim of increasing learning effectiveness, and/or mixes learning media (face-to-face, online, print, etc.) to increase efficiency, in the context of a particular learning requirement, audience characteristics, and practical constraints and opportunities.Clive’s does a great job in separating the method and the medium. I quite agree with Clive.In my view, blended learning can be simply defined as a combination (blend!) of self…

Read More

eLearning and Content Development Trends for 2008

December 30, 2007
| 7 Comments
| Categories: Blended learning, Content Development, eLearning, Rapid development, Synchronous learning, The Big Question, Training, Trends, Virtual environments, Web 2.0

Learning Circuit’s January Big Question is about predicting trends for the year 2008. Here’s my take on what we can expect in the coming year.Web 2.0 in LearningWeb 2.0 will be the killer buzzword for the year 2008. Everyone will want to use the technology for learning and training. Bersin report for 2008 talks about it, Brandon Hall has announced new categories of awards, and most bloggers are talking about it. I believe 2008 will continue to be the year of discovery and experimentation with Web 2.0. Web 2.0 techniques…

Read More

Death of the Instructional Designer

November 20, 2007
| 7 Comments
| Categories: Content Development, Design, eLearning, Instructional Design, SME

Fifteen years ago when I joined the profession, Instructional Design was a new profession. Friends and family asked about what I really did for a living. Customers were surprised to find Instructional Designers in India and after a few years of struggle, getting business was not so hard. We were grudgingly accepted as Instructional Designers without any formal qualification in Instructional Design. As Instructional Designers we spent time in learning about the underlying theories of instructional design, did our research on the project content area and spent hours in brainstorming…

Read More

Unofficial salary survey for elearning/content development jobs

June 28, 2007
| 14 Comments
| Categories: Content Development, eLearning, HR, Instructional Design, Jobs, Salary

Update: See 2009 elearning and content development salary data hereThere's an interesting debate raging in various forums about salaries in elearning/content development jobs in India. So here's starting an unofficial survey about salaries in this field. Nothing official about this survey -- all inputs available here are completely anecdotal and open to interperations by the readers. I do not make any claims about accuracy of these figures.Add your comments in this blog about the salaries you have seen for various roles in various companies in India. And while you are…

Read More