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This is a blog for anyone looking to transition to corporate Learning & Development. Posts include tips for a successful job search, explanations of basic instructional design concepts, and stories from my own career pivot.
When I decided to leave education and seek a corporate ID role, reading content by people in the field confirmed that I was on the right path. I hope to pay it forward and provide some insight into the job change process for others by documenting my experiences.
Blog Categories
- Agile 3
- Books 2
- Career Development 37
- Corporate Jobs 16
- Customer Education 7
- DEI 10
- Digital Accessibility 2
- Instructional Design 41
- Job Applications 12
- LMS 1
- Leadership 3
- Learning Technologies 5
- Learning and Development 6
- Performance Consulting 2
- Personal Finance 6
- Project Management 17
- Remote Work 15
- Technical Training 18
- Transitioning Teachers 31
- Video-Based Learning 2
- Visual Design 2
- eLearning Development 20
- xAPI 1
Ways to Learn xAPI
I’ve been upskilling in the area of xAPI in the first half of 2023. It started with the xAPI cohort and I recently completed Jeff Batt’s xAPI course on Udemy, too. xAPI naturally builds on my programming skills.
Training as a Product
Working in Customer Education, my learning solutions generate revenue. We sell training to our clients.
Product Documentation and Technical Training
Do you use product documentation when designing technical training? It can make your job A LOT easier.
The Particulars of Technical Training
At some point in your instructional design career, you may have the opportunity to develop technical training. Technical training aims to develop skills with a particular digital tool.
How Codecademy Does Asynchronous Learning
The Codecademy courses are completely self-driven and asynchronous. They grant their learners complete autonomy to jump around, look up solutions, and engage at our own pace.
Why I’m Learning to Code
E-Learning development has much in common with web development. This is why I am enrolling in Codecademy’s front-end web development course!
Tech Upskilling via LinkedIn Learning
In the world of corporate instructional design, we use very specific digital tools. If you are transitioning to this field and have K-12 experience, our platforms are similar, but not the same.
A Small Pep Talk
A small pep talk for instructional designers who don’t feel like technology wunderkinds. You can learn to be tech-savvy.