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What do Instructional Designers do?

Who are Instructional Designers or IDs? What do they do in this world? 

So, as the name suggests, Instructional Designers design instructions. In other words, they give a proper structure to the raw content which is then used to train the learners. 


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Learners can be from any field and may belong to any age group. Learners can be anyone from the below list and the list is not limited:

  • School or college students, 
  • Teachers,
  • Recently joined employees, 
  • Team leaders, managers, 
  • Top leadership, 
  • HR people,  
  • Working employees who want to upgrade their skill, or
  • Women living in a remote village

Traditionally, learning takes place in the classroom but due to technological advancement, one can learn online as per their availability. 

For online delivery of training, instructional designers deliver the content in different formats such as, 

  • Web-based training (WBT)
  • Games
  • Microlearning
  • Videos
  • Instructional Led Training (ILT)
  • Simulations

We will try to explore each of these types in the next article. 

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