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eLearning Salaries in India – Part 2

September 2, 2009
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| Categories: Content Development, eLearning, India, Jobs, Salary, Survey

Amit Garg of Upside Learning posted some interesting comments about the elearning salary survey on their company blog. He raises three important points: Salary ranges are very wideDoes variable pay work?Recession has had a severe impact You can see his full post here. Here’s what I responded. 1. Salary Ranges: In the survey, I asked respondents for total experience and relevant experience. As I mentioned in my post, I have considered relevant experience and this has led to some anomaly in data. However when I dig a little deeper into…

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eLearning and Content Development Salaries in India

September 1, 2009
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| Categories: Content Development, eLearning, India, Salary, Survey

The Unofficial Salary Survey for elearning and content development jobs in India is now closed. This year the survey received 104 valid responses. This is up from 54 last year and 10 the year before. NCR contributed with most respondents (25), followed closely by Chennai (23), Bangalore (18) and Pune (15). Mumbai (12), Hyderabad (8), Cochin (1), Surat (1) and Kolkatta (1) were the other cities. There were two responses from outside India which were not considered (the survey is for jobs in India). Key highlights:Instructional Designers (57) were most…

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Staying Up to Date with Instructional Design Skills

July 20, 2009
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| Categories: Career, coaching, eCube, eLearning, Instructional Design, Jobs, Learning, Learning professionals, skills

I recently came across a question posted on the eCube LinkedIn forum that I responded to. While the question was how a person in between jobs could keep their instructional design skills up to date, I think it is important even for those with the jobs to keep their skills up to date. How can an experienced Instructional Designer with very limited experience in current instructional design software tools update their skills in order to be recognized and considered as a candidate for e-Learning positions? How does a person in…

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Have You Participated Yet?

July 16, 2009
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| Categories: eLearning, India, Instructional Design, Jobs, Salary, Survey

Update: Survey is closed for the year. You can view the elearning and content development salaries in India for 2009 here.Have you participated in the Unofficial Salary Survey for eLearning / Content Development Jobs in India for year 2009 yet? More than 60 people have participated in the survey so far. Join the growing number of people who have already participated. Some highlights of responses received so far: So far, Chennai and Pune are leading with most participants, with Bangalore and NCR following closely. Hyderabad and Mumbai are the other…

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Unofficial eLearning Salary Survey 2009

June 27, 2009
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| Categories: Content Development, eLearning, Instructional Design, Jobs, Recruitment, Salary, SME, Survey, Work

Update: Survey is closed for the year. You can view the elearning and content development salaries in India for 2009 here.Launching the Unofficial Salary Survey for eLearning / Content Development Jobs in India for year 2009. There's nothing official about this survey. The survey is not based on responses by companies but based on responses provided by you, the employee. This survey is not associated with any organization. The survey is anonymous. This survey is for you if you are an Instructional Designer, Content Developer, Tech Writer, Project Manager, Graphics…

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Blogs by Indian Learning Professionals and Companies

June 25, 2009
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| Categories: Blogging, eLearning, India, Learning professionals, Lists, postsofthepast

Last December I posted top 10 blogs by learning professionals in India. Since then I have come across many other blogs by learning professionals and companies in India. Here are the blogs by learning professionals and companies in India that I read.Individual blogs:Writers Gateway - Rupa RajagopalanSpeak Out - Archana NarayananFree as in Freedom - Sumeet MogheIDiot - Geeta BoseDesigned for Learning - Taruna GoelInstructional Design: On the road to learning - Sreya DuttaViplav Baxi’s Meanderings - Viplav BaxieCube, Collaborative Learning Environment - various authorsRandom Ideas - Mousumi GhoshEducation,Technology,Ideas,India -…

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Solve a Business Problem or Create a WBT?

May 25, 2009
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| Categories: Audience Analysis, Blended learning, Career, Clients, coach, Content Development, Design, eLearning, Instructional Design, mentor, Needs analysis, Tips, Training, Vendors

I had an interesting chat conversation over the weekend with a budding instructional designer.ID: I wanted to discuss about Instructional approaches ID: Suppose there's a client who says " they have been using ILT that has not been successful, their mentors are not motivating enough& nw wants to change it to a WBT.......and target audience are senior &middle level managers well versed with sales, dealing with retailers etc..... And I've to give them 2 approaches.....do u hv any ideas? Me: why is their ILT not successful? ID: their mentors are…

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eLearning and Instructional Design Meme

March 31, 2009
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| Categories: Content Development, eLearning, Instructional Design, Meme, Reflection

Last year I wrote a brief post about tech support meme and posted a hilarious video. I recently came across a whole book about, well not exactly tech support memes though some of stories are about tech support, Indian BPO stories. BPO-Sutra is compiled and edited by Sudhindra Mokhasi and he is already calling for more stories for a volume II. So do instructional designers have any stories to build the elearning or instructional design meme? Here are two to start with. Would love to hear more from you. Either…

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Learning Formats in 2020

January 13, 2009
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| Categories: 3D Worlds, Content, eLearning, Learning, Predictions, Social Networking, Telepresence, Training, Trends, Virtual environments, Workplace Learning

Geetha Krishnan asks "what kind of learning formats will be in vogue in the year 2020, specifically with respect to corporate training?" My short response that I left as comments on his post is given below. Don’t miss out on other comments on his post from experts in the industry.Man (as in generic human, not intended to be sexist), has forever learned from teachers, gurus. Knowledge has been passed down through ages by the teachers/gurus. The medium changed over the years. The common thread that I see is that the changing…

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Top 10 Blogs by Learning Professionals in India

December 19, 2008
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| Categories: Blogging, eCube, eLearning, India, Learning, Learning professionals, Lists

Jul 2009 Update: You can find an updates list of blogs by Learning professionals and companies in India here.Time magazine came out with an issue of ‘Lists’, publishing various top 10 lists for 2008. RWW has many posts on various top 10s of the year. Inspired I started working on top 10 blogs by learning/training professionals in India, about learning/training. I found it hard to find 10 blogs that are updated regularly (at least 1 post a month)!!! Obviously I am not reading enough. So where are the learning/training professionals…

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