Community Discussion: Do Instructional Designers Need Coding Skills?

07/12/20 • 42 min

In this Community Discussion episode, we asked the question "Do Instructional Designers Need Coding Skills?" The short answer is No. But - there is also a very strong case to answer that question with "It depends". Ultimately, the question can only be answered by defining the kind of instructional designer you're going to be, for example, a free lancer or a single person on a small ID team that might not have access to developers or coders.

Take a listen to the episode and you'll hear some great feedback from the audience that was composed of some strong instructional design veterans.

Also in this episode, we dive a bit into a project guest Carlita Godsey is working on. She's building a course on American Sign Language and reached out to the Community in this episode to see if she needed to learn how to code to be able to make her course better.

Link to slide deck: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LjYJoouUgWl6HzvnIw3Ty8vjhuHMetbD3dHS-IShPeA/edit?usp=sharing

Take a listen to the episode and you'll hear some great feedback from the audience that was composed of some strong instructional design veterans.

Link to slide deck: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LjYJoouUgWl6HzvnIw3Ty8vjhuHMetbD3dHS-IShPeA/edit?usp=sharing

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How To Have Conversations About Race at Your Workplace with guest Ankit Shah and host Cara North

In this special episode, we have diversity, equity, and inclusion professional, Ankit Shah as a guest with host Cara North. The topic is How to Have Conversations About Race at Your Workplace. And Ankit offers an excellent foundation of how to start the conversations and hopefully, produce effective dialog that will help address what is at the forefront of most current discussion in our society - the topic of race.

Talking about race can be very uncomfortable. But it's an important topic to address, and having these discussions is an incredible opportunity for us to move forward.

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Member Showcase: Dorota Langner

In this latest Member Showcase conversation: Dorota Langner.

Born and raised in Poland, then moving to France, then Ireland, and now living in Toronto - Dorota has had a fascinating journey thus far, and is about as passionate an instructional designer as you'll find out there.

It's always a treat to talk to instructional designers from other parts of the world and Dorota is no exception. And best of all, if you're an employer looking for someone that's worked for public and private companies, especially NGO's and multinational corporations, you'll want to reach out to Dorota - she's currently available for employment. And more than likely, she won't be for long.

Here's Dorota's website: https://dorotalearningexpert.wordpress.com/

So thanks for tuning in, and meet Dorota Langner in our latest Member Showcase.