Transitioning from Academia to Instructional Design with Joe Stuben

[@DarrenTalksTech]

I'm loving the fact that Joe's portfolio contains concepts as opposed to real-world designs from experience. With me being someone that has no practical ID experience, this really gives me hope.

[@DevlinPeckYT]

Yes, have hope! Creating concept pieces is a great way to build a portfolio (and still show off your skillset when it comes to solving real-world problems with instructional design).

[@cindysingleton3260]

Great info! The biggest takeaway for me is to schedule time each day to actually work on the most important thing (portfolio) and not get distracted by all the info coming at me. I'm guilty of becoming distracted by videos, podcasts, message boards, and so on.

[@DevlinPeckYT]

That's a great takeaway! Finding time to actually build your own portfolio / application materials will definitely help you get closer to your goals :)

[@clearykatie]

I'm a teacher looking into transitioning to instructional design. Your videos have been very helpful. Thank you!

[@DevlinPeckYT]

Hi Katie! I'm glad to hear it. Keep at it and you'll have that ID role soon enough :D. Stay tuned for more videos.

[@JordanRothenberg]

Such an informative Q&A session with Joe. Thank you! Although it was brief, I found the analysis of his portfolio items to be very enlightening and I'd selfishly love to see more analysis/deep dives into real portfolio items!

[@DevlinPeckYT]

Great suggestion, Jordan! I think that would make some great content :D

[@ZShiloh1980]

Devlin and Joe, thank you so much for this Q&A! I’ve been an adjunct professor of Philosophy for the last 7 years and recently decided to pursue a career in instructional design. This video was very informative and motivating. I’m looking forward to your next bootcamp, Devlin.

[@DevlinPeckYT]

Hi Zeph! Congrats on making the mental leap to ID. I know from working with Joe that it's pretty tough mentally to leave behind the "job for life." I'm glad to hear that we'll have another great mind in ID, and I'm glad that you found the content helpful :D

[@sofiazhang1584]

This is so great, thank you Devlin for facilitating this Q&A, and for Joe's candidness. I'm not as bold as Joe, but I'm hoping to transition from the research end of academia to ID space in higher education, and hopefully corporate down the line. This is a great starting point!

[@DevlinPeckYT]

Wonderful! I'm glad that this session helped, Sofia. And you can definitely make the transition directly to corporate if that's where you'd like to wind up. There are many, many high-paying remote corporate roles out there right now.

[@valerie5417]

I really appreciated this video as I've just spent the last 8 years as an ESL teaching specialist overseas in Hong Kong and have recently become interested in Edtech and ID. I'm planning on taking a few course in ID but this video really gave me a practical road map. Thank you so much!

[@DevlinPeckYT]

You're so welcome! Thanks for checking out the video.

[@MrCtowner]

Thank you Devlin and Joe, this was extremely informative and a great jumping off place for me as I research the prospects of making this transition myself.

[@linetediaz.807]

Thank you so much Joe for giving such such honest and open feedback of your interview and the process you went through to build the portfolio. And again thank you Devlin for providing opportunities that are beneficial to the community to learn from.

[@DevlinPeckYT]

You're so welcome! Thanks for watching this one, Linete :D

[@JessieCarty]

This was a really great chat. I really appreciate that he acknowledged his privilege in having the time and resources to pursue the path but also that he talked about how some skillsets may have you hitting a wall. I kind of felt the same way when I tried to study python; however, I feel like studying it to the level I did was worthwhile for basic logic and programming skills.

[@DevlinPeckYT]

Yes, Joe is very helpful! And nice takeaways :D

[@cynthiareid6416]

Thanks Devlin and Joe for great conversation and advice about jump from academia to ID.

[@DevlinPeckYT]

You're welcome! Thanks for checking out the recording :)

[@ttzargaryan]

oh, this is such a great insight to me, thank you, Devlin. I want to transition from higher ed to corporate and this is going to be a very good starting point. In general, your mission is groundbreaking I guess.

[@DevlinPeckYT]

Thanks Tatevik! I’m glad that you’re enjoying the content, and I look forward to supporting you on your journey to corporate 😃

[@mollysclasscomparativeeduc818]

Thank you very much for this informative video

[@DevlinPeckYT]

You’re very welcome! Thanks for watching 😃

[@sneharecites]

Thank you for the interesting Q & A session.

[@DevlinPeckYT]

Thanks for watching :)

[@elizabethbartels3397]

Excellent informative video - thank you! One question from your portfolio segment, what software do you recommend to have the demo operational on a portfolio?

[@DevlinPeckYT]

You're welcome! And check out Amazon S3. I have a tutorial on my site for how to share a Storyline course with this, but I'll make a video for it soon.

[@mr.richard1328]

Can we have the link to the article he is talking about? You wrote it.

[@DevlinPeckYT]

Sure thing, here you are: www.devlinpeck.com/posts/how-to-become-instructional-designer

[@priyaromal5081]

Hi Devlin, Thanks for this great session. It was really motivating to see people like Joe who succesfully made the jump from academia. Tips regarding the portfolio and resume were really helpful. However as an absolute beginner trying to shift from academia, I am still struggling to create a mind map of the whole process of transition. Firstly, how important is it to have a prior knowledge of coding?I mean till I watched this session, I thought I might need coding when I actually build the portfolio site. But when I went through Joe's porfolio,I was surprised to see a tutorial on javascript + storyline. I mean , if my first priority is to make a portfolio,do I need to create a basic idea of coding first ? Secondly, I had gone through the introductory videos on xAPI.As a beginner, at what point can I call myself equipped to learn about xAPI? I hope I dont sound too anxious :)

[@DevlinPeckYT]

Hi Priya! Don't worry :). You do not need to learn how to code to become an instructional designer, but showing off some JavaScript skills like Joe will help set you apart (and Joe had some previous JavaScript experience because it was a personal interest of his). If you want to challenge yourself, you can include an xAPI-enabled portfolio piece. That is a good way to show that you're not afraid of the custom code, and I hope that my tutorials will help make it pretty easy to learn :)

[@priyaromal5081]

@@DevlinPeckYT 👍

[@slimfast18]

Thank you for asking this question!

[@funsun3277]

What if you're struggling to come up with an idea?

[@DevlinPeckYT]

For a portfolio project? This video should help :D kzbin.info/www/bejne/h6i3oqVtqqyLjbM

[@funsun3277]

@@DevlinPeckYT thanks... Watching now

[@BigEww]

Nice guys! 👍🏽

[@DevlinPeckYT]

Thanks Jerry :D