Job descriptions in ID (or, ISD) these days are all over the map, with very little consistency. So I'm going to propose some roles as I understand them, in the hopes that some day hiring managers will be able to articulate better what they want/need in terms of talent for their training departments or projects. Note that one person can hold multiple roles . It doesn't help that few HR and Recruiters have any knowledge of, or experience with, the field. These are ROLES not PEOPLE .

One of the toughest challenges in running an e-learning project is finding the right talent and ensuring they fit into the roles and expectations of the team. The list below is a good starting point to identify roles, responsibilities and qualifications. List of Roles and Job Functions in e-Learning Development ______________­______________­____ Project Champion and Leader Principal areas of To promote innovation in the use of e-Learning/ILT benefit learning, teaching and research throughout the curriculum. To enable and support all staff

I’m responding to this question from the perspective of a person looking to get a job in the field of e-learning vs. think one place to start is to look at the competencies and skills needed for various “e-learning” jobs. got a job in e-learning! ASTD ’s Learning Circuits Blog has a monthly ‘Big Question.” 8221; This month it’s:

Future jobs, now, today! Collaborative Learning Specialists - of all types! ______________­______________­_________ Please let me know if you see these types of jobs or if you do these jobs. ______________­______________­_________ I pondered on what jobs, specializations, and careers we may eventually discover or are even starting to evolve in organizations. Although the jobs are not fully articulated in job descriptions, eventually, they will be -I predict. My exposure tells me that these general functions are starting to surface.

Does anyone actually hold the job title, “Learning Professional”? If not, what is your job title? What blanket term describes your role? Poking job sites, I see frequent variations of the following job titles associated w/ workplace learning. For a class assignment, I wrote a one-page summary on the topic of the effectiveness of blogging as a professional development tool for critical thinking. Something like that.

Some instructors and instructional designers now see me as a job threat. You can, however, change their roles. The organization receives improved performance on the job, continuous improvement, and increased innovation. In their forthcoming book, Digital Habitats: Stewarding Technology for Communities , Etienne Wenger, Nancy White, and John Smith describe the role Get Out of the Training Business , my last column for Chief Learning Officer, called for the abolition of  corporate training departments. Help me write the next installment.

Mark Sylvester hosted a web conference today  on the role of an online community manager. CM is not a 9-5 job – uses twitter a lot, comments on blogs, uses back-channels for private communications the role changes as the needs of the community change CM is a very time-consuming job and the results are not always tangible and visible. Here are some highlights from my notes: The session used tweetchat.com for the text chat, but this medium was very slow.

Through roles, these same capabilities can be provided to any user (eg students) in the system. Via Jane Hart . George Siemens is discussing whether the future of learning is in Learning Management Systems (LMS) or Social Networking Systems . In his post, George describes Moodle as being one of many "content-centric" systems.

To what extent is your team organized around common job roles and functions? (Retail Retail or early childhood education would be 90% or more – identical job roles in multiple physical locations.  A biotech or high tech would likely be far less – similar jobs in some cases, but dissimilar responsibilities.) _______ I’m presenting a new deck tomorrow at a pretty big company.  I’m not sure that I can name them so I’m going to err on the side of caution. 

ut I think it's fair to say that most every response expects the role of training to either diminish or to change significantly in the next 10 years . These will be the individuals who focus on performance, who get informal/pull learning, and who take the lead on understanding the role of technology. I would predict that this half becomes some kind of management consultant within the next 10 years. Hence my overall prediction - 50% of Workplace Learning Professionals will call themselves Management Consultants in 10 Years eLearning Technology The Big Question this month is Workplace Learning in 10 Years : If you peer inside an organization in 10 years time and you look at how workplace learning is being supported by that organization, what will you see?