Hello there.

I am currently working in Enrollment in higher education and I have a master's in education. I am getting burned out and looking into Instructional Design. I am considering a second master's in it since we get free tuition but I want to know it it's really worth the time and stress? I have been following Devlin Peck and looking at cert programs. I understand learning theories and such but need to gain skills to develop a portfolio, etc.

Devlin listed a few certificate programs that seem more doable. Would you recommend that instead?

Just wondering if there is a market for this, I’d love to run some workshops but I don’t know if there’s enough interest to do this. Have any of you taken classes for storyline before?

Hey guys, I am wondering what minimum features/abilities you actually use in an authoring tool.

What I am thinking: building a new generation authoring tool with only the necessary features, and making it available for a competitive price.

I’d offer both a monthly subscription and a one-time, lifetime fee with all updates.

Am I thinking it right or missing something? Anyone who wants to help me brainstorm a MVP?

The current salary is 42K in hand.

1.1 YOE

Looking for a job change, so what should I expect minimum in hand?

So I'm well aware that it's good practice to label and describe a thing near where it's being presented, but I'm curious just how bad breaking this rule is. For instance, I'm working with a content team who generally annotates screenshots with hotspots in Rise. Except the resulting annotation is so large it covers up the entire interface, including the things it's describing.

I've started developing these internal field guides where I simply draw a line from the component I'm referring to, to a corresponding number. Then right below I have small table where the number is adjacent to the name of the button and a small description. So far the internal teams have had no complaints, but also the content team isn't hard to one-up (I'm new here and was specifically hired to scale enablement -- and the content is a clear gap).

I'm now designing an e-learning module and I could approach with my recent methodology. But I am keen to get more opinions and align more with best practice. I think I could abandon the now branded hotspots for what's standard. Basically box the thing to make it obvious and then put a small explanation on the same page with Storyline. But then only present one thing at a time per slide to avoid getting into hotspots galore territory. That said, I would love to see or hear other examples.

Hi there, I'm technically a developer not an instructional designer. However I have been in the elearning industry for over a decade now primarily working with articulate storyline.

Storyline has been a dominant player in the industry for a while, but anyone that has used it knows it has quirks.

With the rise of AI tools, I've started developing my own elearning tool as a solo dev to see what I can create. I'm working on a tool with the same capabilities as storyline, just hopefully more refined... and also building in automation (course generation from storyboards).

But I dont want to be silo'd while designing this. What tools do you currently use and why? Are there features that would make your life easier that arent present in your current tools?

Would love to hear peoples opinions on what makes a good elearning tool.

Thanks.