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Final complete day: 2026-08-24. Attention was 9.8% — this entity appeared in 13 of 133 analyzed posts/comments in the seven days ending that day (19 mentions).

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1. 2026-08-22 21:06 UTCComment

   thanks for ur reply! may I ask if you are in L&D in healthcare? i work in the LMS and spend my days either 1) removing trainings for people who don't want to take it (literally makes me cringe as a professional educator) 2) running reports for regulatory purposes - i'm not a data person, i'm a creative person with education background 3) and building eLearning courses on topics that make me scared lol. can u tell im in the wrong place? anyways just thought u would get a laugh from this as I have not met anyone else who was in higher ed and now struggling in healthcare. u make me feel less alone! do u also experience these things? lol i miss higher ed \* cries \*

2. 2026-08-22 01:03 UTCComment

   Pursuing Instructional Design for the love of it is honorable. In my opinion this is what got my career started: a) find a project that needs instructional design right now that you have partial ownership over and can begin development using ADDIE or SAM 1. The first few trainings you make will greatly strengthen your current skill sets and point out areas of improvement you will need to shore up on. More importantly, it officially puts you on the board as an instructional designer! b) continue learning from communities and seek jobs with instructional designers, QA development teams, project managers, policy writers, creators, etc. You do not need a college degree in instructional design to be an instructional designer. But you will need project management skills in order to lead a small group of subject matter experts and the owners who will approve decisions. You will also need to develop skills to ascertain and connect learning solutions to what the stakeholders need to achieve. If you are dead set on getting another degree, consider getting one in design, project management, or something that can be used for a wide variety of other fields. c) build your portfolio now by seeking opportunities to volunteer and create educational materials for them for free. Obviously you won't get paid, but this typically comes with greater creative freedoms and room to explore and grow your skills. Maybe there is a food bank that needs a new flyer made? Perhaps there is a charitable organization you know of that would appreciate a slide deck that plays on hallway monitors? Have you considered making advertisements for a small business? All of these are translatable skills that can help you get into positions that offer paid instructional design opportunities and experience d) Remember, an instructional designer must be flexible enough to work with different teams to create the stakeholder's training in a manner that achieves an outcome that preferably brings value. There are core skills that I personally believe every instructional designer would benefit from having. Project management skills, being able to hold a meeting, correctly conducting learning needs assessments, having basic photo and video editing skills, a decent grasp on at least ADDIE, good mastery over the use of several media forms to present educational materials, etc. However these skills alone do not make a good instructional designer. Good instructional designers are willing to constantly learn and test new learning solutions, to refine their art in how they present and achieve context. Because the needs of our clients are so different from each other and their respective industries you can expect to be constantly challenged with learning new subjects as you work for new people. To a certain degree the best instructional designers will learn the aspects of the roles of their subject matter experts and shadow them to better understand the needs of the project. You're not to replace your subject matter expert, but you should become familiar with the material you are about to present e) Good luck with your pursuit! Keep up your love for instructional design, it is a practice that I love too. Right now I am taking a break because the american industry does not care for the safety of others and with that our regulations have been cut and so has been the need for instructional design. This is not a plurality, as of right now I am choosing to participate in learning more about my community and the stakeholders who are called the unhoused. If you can find work in the US then that is great, but are there other countries that you may want to consider working for that might be a bit better, value you more as a Dominican woman, and respect the profession? Just a thought. You're doing good work with your own community and I wish you the best of luck

3. 2026-08-21 11:47 UTCComment

   I think you may be focusing too much on the technology at this point in your transition. Storyline is a widely used tool, and many corporate environments are Windows-based, so I wouldn't make avoiding Windows a major factor in deciding which direction to take your career. But more importantly, knowing Storyline doesn't make someone an instructional designer. It's a tool. Coming from K–12, I'd spend much more of your time learning about the things that will be genuinely different in a corporate L&D environment. First, learn about designing for adult learners and, particularly, designing learning to improve performance. In corporate L&D, the question usually isn't just, "What does this person need to learn?" It's "What does this person need to be able to DO differently, and what business result are we trying to affect?" Second, learn as much as you can about working in a corporate environment. You'll be working with SMEs, business leaders and other stakeholders. You'll need to gather information from people who are extremely busy, manage conflicting feedback, work within budgets and timelines, and sometimes explain why training isn't actually the solution to the problem. Third, get experience any way you reasonably can. A volunteer project for a nonprofit or professional association, an internship, or another opportunity to solve a real learning problem for a real organization will teach you things that another software tutorial won't. And don't assume that eLearning development is the only path into L&D. Instructional design, eLearning development, facilitation, learning technology, performance consulting and other specialties require different combinations of skills. If eLearning development is the direction you ultimately choose, then absolutely learn Storyline and other development tools. But I'd figure out what kind of L&D work you want to do first, and then learn the tools that support that work rather than letting a software program determine your career direction. This article may also help because it specifically looks at some of the differences between creating eLearning for academia and creating it for a business environment: eLearning for Academia vs. eLearning for Business: What's the Real Difference?

4. 2026-08-21 11:25 UTCComment

   Apply for global organisations that have teams / a presence in France. From memory, France have strict language rules relating to training (they need to be available in French). So, if a company has a head office abroad, and has a business-wide training need, they can't just lift and shift it into their offices in France (even if everyone speaks English in that office). Global Hotel Management Companies is a good example, they have a head office abroad but provide training to hotels across different countries. I don't know if the demand is there, but that's something to consider.

5. 2026-08-19 22:40 UTCComment

   Just because you don't care about the topic selected does not justify slamming this. It doesn't belong in instructional design? Wrong again- please cite your sources \[mine are in later part of this post\]. It's amateurish? I disagree - trying to match AAA games is not the objective for a game like this. This game is a fantastic proof-of-concept and I think that if the author makes edits more in line with the tenets of evidence-informed ID and serious games, this could easily take the place of the boring "click->next" one-and-done "just checking the boxes" annual mandatory "training." Suggest you expand your mind by checking out books/articles by Clark Aldrich, Sharon Boller, Karl Kapp, Jan L. Plass, and Richard Mayer. You won't see them suggesting an email as stand-alone "learning" but you will learn a lot about game-based evidence-informed learning.