Get answers to your instructional design career questions.
Then you’ve come to the right place. I’ll give you the honest story about starting a career in instructional design neatly organized into 12 free email lessons. If you’re eager to get all the lessons at once, you can purchase the eBook by clicking the image on the right. Breaking Into Instructional Design explains one of the most fulfilling and brightest careers of the 21st century (yes, I’m biased).
This email course is for people like you who want to learn about an instructional design career and are wondering how to become an instructional designer.
I’m Connie Malamed, an experienced instructional design consultant, founder of the Mastering Instructional Design learning community, and publisher of The eLearning Coach website and podcast. I get lots of questions about this career. This free email course answers those questions.
Who are these lessons for?
People from many different fields think about switching to a career in instructional design. I wrote these lessons for:
- Teachers who are ready to leave the classroom and want to start a second career in instructional design
- Employees who were told they need to start developing eLearning because they are good at PowerPoint
- Subject Matter Experts who became trainers but don’t feel confident in their course design skills
- Writers who discovered that they can find consistent work in instructional design
- Technical writers who want to branch out into something more interesting than writing manuals
- Multimedia specialists who want to work with authoring tools and media to develop eLearning
- New college graduates with a degree in the field who aren’t sure how to get that first job
- Anyone who wants to find out how to become an instructional designer
What’s Inside
- Learn about the varied work instructional designers do.
- Find out how the the instructional design field is changing.
- See the competencies required for an instructional design career.
- Get the scoop on whether you need a degree.
- Discover the best places to network and find jobs.
- Jump ahead of your competition with this suggested reading list.
- Start working on an eLearning portfolio to develop your skills.
Ready to start?
To start the course, enter your info into the form below. Then check your email for a confirmation message. After you confirm, you’ll receive lessons delivered to your Inbox twice a week. I’ll never share your contact information. I hate spam as much as you do. If you’d rather get the content all at once as an eBook, you can purchase it here.
Talk to you soon,
Connie Malamed
Publisher of The eLearning Coach and founder of the Mastering Instructional Design Learning Community. If you have questions or feedback, just click Reply to any of the lessons. The email will come straight to me. I’m happy to answer your questions.