Curriculum and Instructional Designer / Developer

Career Area: Education and Training

Occupation Group: Instructional and Curriculum Design

Salary

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A typical Curriculum and Instructional Designer / Developer earns the following wages (national and state):

State

The average salary in North Carolina for those pursuing this career is $59,711

National

The average salary in the United States for those pursuing this career is $61,259

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

Designs and develops instructional materials or curriculum for teachers. Analyzes what is needed for students, identifies learning objectives, and designs the content and format of instructional material. Uses instructional design to create instructional materials, which may include text, electronic and visual material. Works for a school or college or for an education, software or publishing company.

Employment Trends

The job demand and job growth statistics shown here were derived from job posts over the past year. Expected job growth projections are extrapolated from year-over-year job post listing history.

Job demand and job growth is expected at the following rates:

Skills

A professional in this position typically utilizes the following skills in the course of everyday work in this exciting and challenging field:

Baseline Skills

The following are baseline skills every Curriculum and Instructional Designer / Developer is expected to have in order to experience success in this field:

• Communication Skills: The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.
• Teamwork / Collaboration: Experience working in collaborative efforts with a team to achieve a common goal or to complete a task in the most effective and efficient way.
• Research: Experience performing creative and systematic work to understand a product, market, or customer, either before building a new solution, or to troubleshoot an existing issue
• Microsoft Office: Microsoft Office is an office suite of applications, servers, and services developed by Microsoft.
• Writing: Experience expressing business messages effectively in written form. This may include planning drafting and revising as necessary.

Specialized Skills

These skills are specific to working in this career:

• Instructional Design: Instructional design (ID), or instructional systems design (ISD), is the practice of creating instructional experiences which make the acquisition of knowledge and skill more efficient, effective, and appealing. The process consists broadly of determining the state and needs of the learner, defining the end goal of instruction, and creating some intervention to assist in the transition.
• Teaching: Working experience of teaching, which is defined as imparting knowledge to an individual or class, or instruct someone as to how to do something.
• Project Management: Project management is the discipline of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria.
• Training Materials: Working experience updating and reviewing Training Materials, which are the elements taught to develop skills and knowledge that relate to specific useful competencies.
• Adobe Captivate: Working experience of Adobe Captivate, which is an authoring tool that is used for creating elearning content such as software demonstrations, software simulations, branched scenarios, and randomized quizzes in Small Web Formats (.swf) and HTML5 formats.

Distinguishing Skills

Any Curriculum and Instructional Designer / Developer that possesses the following skills will stand out against the competition:

• Lesson Planning: Working experience developing or implementing teachers' description of a course of instruction for a lesson.
• Curriculum Design: Experience utilizing education theory and working collaboratively to choose learning experiences and sequence them appropriately.
• Adult Education: Working experience with the practice in which adults engage in systematic and sustained self-educating activities in order to gain new forms of knowledge, skills, attitudes, or values.
• Educational Programs: An educational program is a program written by the institution or ministry of education which determines the learning progress of each subject in all the stages of formal education.
• Instructional Design Principles: Principles of Instructional Design. ... Instructional design (ID) is based on three psychologicalprinciples of learning: behavioral, cognitive and constructivist.

Experience

This position typically requires the following level of experience. The numbers presented in the pie charts below were derived from actual job posts over the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Common Job Titles

It is possible to find work in this field in positions commonly listed as the following job titles:

• Instructional Designer
• Education Coordinator
• Senior Instructional Designer
• Instructional Coach
• Education Specialist

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