In India, career as an instructional designer is booming at the moment. But few question marks still remain about this budding area. It is the science of designing instructions for learners, such that it leads to maximum knowledge transfer. Instructional Designers mainly work in the e-learning industry. Corporate training, Online courses, web-based training (WBT), Computer-based training (CBT) are some of the areas where Instructional designer’s role is becoming vital, nowadays.
Following is a list of institutes that offer training in Instructional Design (ID) in India.
- SNDT University (Mumbai)
- Symbiosis University (Pune)
- University of Pune
- Wavelength (Delhi)
- 4c Learning (Bangalore)
- TechnoPoint
- IDSkills
- Tenable Learning Solutions (Hyderabad)
Career prospects
Every e-learning company is almost screaming they need IDs! An ID can grow to be a manager and then eventually a consultant. Usually the hierarchy is like Instructional Design Analyst (IDA), Instructional Design Lead (IDL), Sr. Instructional Design Lead (IDL), and Instructional Design Manager (IDM), but this differs from organization to organization.
An ID at the entry level can earn anything between Rs 10,000-15,000, and can fetch upto Rs 1 lakh a month as per increase in experience and skills. Few companies in this field are Tata Interactive, Accenture, NIIT, Sify, Aptech, Lionbridge, IL&FS ETS etc.
In India there is abundant of job opportunities since companies from West find here the ability and talent to design Instructions effectively.
India will continue to be an attractive option as a partner for companies looking for Business Process Outsourcing. The low costs and the large number of people knowing the English language do help. The field of Instructional Design is an exacting and a demanding one.
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