The Expert Interview Vault
Nine instructional designers, one honest conversation each
When you hear how working designers think, the road gets shorter. You learn how they found the work, what they do every day and what they’d tell someone starting out. These conversations are for teachers, nurses, counselors and coaches who already help people and are moving into designing learning.
Your guests
Nine designers, nine roads in
Each of them found this work a different way. Here’s who you’ll hear from, and one idea from each conversation.
Connie Malamed
Author, speaker and founder of Mastering Instructional Design
Give learners less at one time, and let visuals carry part of the load.
Dr. Luke Hobson
Author of What I Wish I Knew Before Becoming an Instructional Designer
There’s no single right path into this work. Keep going.
Read Coburn
Former ESL teacher who became an instructional designer
Get something visible in front of people early, then improve it with their feedback.
Amanda Hewitt
Instructional designer who started out supporting nursing and pharmacy students
Not every problem needs a course. Sometimes a one-page job aid is the answer.
Danielle Oser
Came to instructional design from PR and communications
If your portfolio is empty, find someone who needs something and make it.
Rivka Rosenberg
eLearning and language specialist who has worked on three continents
Start with who your learners are, then find ways to make it fun.
Marina Arshavskiy
Award-winning designer and author of Instructional Design for eLearning
Clear, plain words can change the whole learning experience.
Kim Tuohy
Founder of Belvista Studios
Use a storyboard to pause and make sure you’re solving the right problem.
Dr. Ray Pastore
University professor who came to the field from web development
Design for the real problem, even when that means training isn’t the answer.
What’s inside
- A conversation with each of the nine guests
- A short bio for every guest, so you know who you’re learning from
- Five takeaways from every conversation, in plain words
- A one-page worksheet per guest, “Try it in your own work,” that turns their advice into a step on your portfolio
- Yours to keep: one payment, no subscription
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Why this works: people learn a craft fastest by watching how its practitioners think, then trying one piece of it themselves.
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