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This Aedge episode is a conversation between Sneha Laxman, an instructional designer with a varied career background, Chitra and Madhavi from Adeptic Creative Labs.
- Sneha’s introduction to instructional design. Being an ex-service person, retiring from the Indian Army as a captain. Transitioning from technical writing to Instructional designer.
- Drawing parallels between being trained as an Army officer and what was required to be a technical writer. Assessing requirements and getting the task done is a common trait that is looked for in any field.
- Sneha’s varied career, starting from a telemarketing professional, chemistry teacher and researcher at C.F.T.R.I, Indian Army, technical writer and now an Instructional designer.
- Challenges Sneha faced in her various career shifts.
- Pursuit of finding something exciting to do and learn
- Learnings as a technical writer. Importance of Needs analysis
- Balance between enjoyable learning and driving actual impact on the ground.
- Most impact can be achieved by catering to what drives the learner
- Corporate learning and its challenges
- Social learning or learning with peers in different settings.
- Sneha’s advice to aspiring Instructional designers.
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