The Learning Strategist

Let's come to the basic question as to what do we do as instructional designers? Understand learner profiles Create curriculums , course outlines, storyboards Review developed content for accuracy etc etc Over and above all this, what we should be doing as 'good' instructional designers, is to be able to suggest appropriate learning solutions based on learner need and business demands. For any of these activities a vital component is ' SME support'. In my experience as an instructional designer I have had experiences with SMEs from different domains. My first experience was to create learning content for the aviation industry. My company bagged contracts from several aviation majors like Airbus, Finnair , Snecma , Saudi Arabian etc. Here we worked on courses for audiences like cabin crew, pilots, flight dispatchers, maintenance personnel. In this industry our SMEs would be persons with aviation & training backgrounds. Working for this industry was fairly sim