Educational and Environmental Support for Novice E‐Learning Developers

The e-learning marketplace is evolving. Many organizations use rapid e-learning development tools today, and instructional designers often need to upgrade their marketable skill-sets as applied to e-learning. We gathered survey and interview data from academic and corporate samples of instructional designers and e-learning developers to investigate which features of rapid e-learning development tools they value and why. Results suggest that formal education and organizational support are needed to help them become competent and marketable e-learning practitioners.