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My purpose is to help you along your instructional design journey. Whether you are looking to learn about designing meaningful learning experiences or landing an instructional design position, this site is for you. This site is dedicated to sharing about best instructional design tips, talking to amazing guests, and more.

EP-13: Heidi Kirby Returns! Higher Education or Corporate - Which Instructional Design Path is Right for You? Part 2

Part 2: Which instructional design path should you follow: higher education or corporate? It’s a fantastic question that many instructional designers are trying to answer. On today’s episode, Heidi Kirbyhost of the BLOC podcast, shares her perspectives about being a corporate instructional designer. We break down several topics around roles, benefits, and perks about being an instructional designer and share our experiences. There isn’t a right or wrong answer here, but this episode will help to steer you in the right direction.

Here’s what we talk about:

Other Duties as Assigned

  • Different roles as technical specialist, project manager, etc. 

Benefits and Perks

  • Professional development opportunities

  • Salary 

  • Tuition reimbursement v. free tuition 

  • Benefits

Check out my episode from BLOC podcast.

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EP-14: Dr. Julia Huprich - Research and Learning Science

EP-12: Heidi Kirby - Higher Education or Corporate - Which Instructional Design Path is Right for You?