What does it take to be an outstanding e-learning designer?

With the Serious eLearning Manifesto showing attention to an effective lack of e-learning design capabilities, as verified by more than a little tedious and useless content out there, it got me considering the essential actions to be an outstanding developer. Or rather, it was actually Stephen Walsh at City & Guilds Kineo  who started this exercise of considered as he preferred my help in looking for a wonderful Cause Designer.

Stephen knowledgeable, as I do, that the best place to start is with someone who already has an effective grounding in one of the factor careers of e-learning, perhaps a news reporter, an artist or someone similar. Here is what I would look for in someone who would have to be able to be really exclusive and help us to do some 'serious e-learning':

• Someone who is a apparent and confident presenter, especially in writing: this skills is particularly important and unfortunately uncommon.
• An ability to empathise with their audience: this is an important 'teaching' top top quality and sometimes lacking those who viewpoint e-learning as an technology self-discipline.
• Someone who is enthusiastic about technology and certainly not afraid of it: this is not the same as being seriously technical.
• They are thankful of appropriate noticeable design (you could label this 'good taste'): simply mind boggling how a lot of people just don't excellent proper care what anything looks like.
• They can concentrating for prolonged periods when necessary: extroverts who can only are employed the company of others will not appreciate being sitting for time composing a deal, a design documents or software.
• But not a loner: the e-learning developer is a part of a team and must appreciate working with others; they should succeed on developing a sense of a whole number of exclusive opinions and opinions.
• They are well organised: working with many details, several kinds, different 'languages' and versions provides a lot of risk for error and confusion: anyone who tries to part it will soon get found out.
These functions are more likely to get you there than highly effective technical IT or noticeable capabilities, although if you're a Leonardo and have these as well then you're journeying.

So, is this history authentic or is it pie in the sky. Are there additional functions that matter?

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