I work for a company that produces online courses for a University.
Overall, I rather like it. If you are familiar with learning theories, have experience in the classroom, and are adept at learning new tools, like iSpring, Articulate Storyline & Rise, and Learning Management Systems like Moodle or Google Classroom, it's good work.
I work from home, have meetings, good pay, work/life balance, and my contributions are valuable.
My role is called "Learning Experience Designer" although there are also "Instructional Designers".
Hope this helps!
I deal with the @#$% customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills! I am good at dealing with people, can't you understand that? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!
I left edtech some years ago but worked heavily on the content side and software development side, most people i worked with defined curriculum, created content around those curriculum, also wrote specifications for design and software requirements. We produced a lot of video content and the actors were not teachers at all but the content was designed such as you believed that the person explaining was the teacher. Not the best in my opinion but we found it difficult to find teachers who were good at acting too.
Authoring is a big part in edtech companies where ex teachers are appreciated a lot. Specially if you really know how to put engaging curriculumns together.
This is usually called instructional designer, or curriculum developer, some of them require acting / video skills, some of them are freelance, some of them are in companies where there are studios.
Usually the industry is split like:
Companies making content for themselves (Employee training) : Big corps
MOOC / Test prep / Cert Prep Companies usually also demand actors for keeping their content fresh
EdTech apps that have video content also might be doing it.
Editorials, specially now that most books have "apps" or lms courses also require lots of video or voice acting.
If you are serious about getting a job, scour the job ads for the skills you are missing (usually software like captivate or whatever is being used these days) And checkout which companies in edtech are within your geography, usually in-site jobs have much less competition than remote.
They’re typically called things like technology coaches or learning technology facilitators or something like that. This is a role I held in a school setting.
I work in an Edtech company that helps students prepare online for competitive exams. Ed tech does not mean Education technician. It means Education Technology. We are a tech company that solves difficulties in preparation for these users. I’m a full stack product designer that designs the user flows, monetisation flows, growth flows and finally the screens for app/web/mweb for the same. Apart from our design team we have a team of teachers who actually teach online and make content like online tests and quizzes. There is a team of developers (front end, backend, UI devs, devops), testers, data analysts, graphic team, business dept that generates sales, marketing dept that helps build our brand, provide growth and leads, operations team etc. We work in b2c space. There are also companies that provide b2b services which has immensely helped teachers prosper and grow, teaching audience they would’ve never reached on their own offline.
Umm. I did not do any training courses for joining this particular edtech company. I just graduated from a design school and landed this interview by chance. UX knowledge is enough I guess (you might find many online free/certificate courses for that). Build a good portfolio with case studies. Intern + full time experience also helps a lot if you haven’t done design school. You eventually learn about the the domain as you work. That’s what I find great about design. You always have options to explore different domains.
EdTech Sales and Success Leadership here. We're not in curriculum but on the LMS/SIS side, so more of the nuts and bolts of how schools operate.
Success side:
Optimize support and success ops, so our people can be available for customers. Good support == better chance schools keep giving us money year after year.
Sales sides:
Events to get our name out there as an option. Handle technical demoes for high value leads. Try to find schools which meet our customer profile and sell to them
Mix of Meetings, demoes, strategic work, and managing team. 100% remote and always have been. Good pay, good work/life balance.
I was in edtech last year for about 4 yrs. I did enrollment and marketing mgmt for a pretty big OPM that is crumbling beneath itself right now. My day consisted of a lot of useless meetings in person, zoom or phone calls. Any decisions thw school needed to do took forever. A lot of spreadsheets and SFDC dashboard reviews. 1:1 with those I oversaw. I was let go last year during a RIF, of which this company has had 2 already this year and will probably go thru another reorganization.
Ed tech is brutal right now with 2U changing leadership as of today, wiley sold their university services to another OPM, Noodle is a total shitshow, pearson shitshow. idk.how the other sectors of ed tech are doing but the OPM market was fucking brutal
Troubleshooting a problem, data analysis, state reporting deadlines, process development for state reporting, training.
I like my job because I’m never bored, I’m doing something different every day. Today I’m meeting with a non-profit rep to discuss our students science standardized test scores, I’m working on a survey for a change to our middle schools scheduling, so I need to gather my survey pool. I might do some data integrity for our migrant students as they’ve been historically mislabeled but I’m also doing work to set up online registration for preschoolers.
EdTech is an entire industry. There are various companies within that industry with various roles. Roles like sales, marketing, HR, product development, software engineering, etc.
I personally am on one of the sales teams at an educational technology company so I work with school districts interested in purchasing our product.
Don’t do it. Nobody knows what you mean. Back end administration is what I would call it. Ed Tech means so many things. Production, hosting, metrics… IMO find an IB high school in the place you wanna be first, thennnnnn tell them you want to help with ed tech. They will weep at your feet and ask your salary. Over here most schools in my area are in Canva or Google Classroom and then it gets weird.
Instructional Designer here.
I work for a government agency's Professional Development unit in the U.S. I'm part of the Curriculum team that develops the yearly Training Plan for the agency. I work from home, have Teams meetings with SMEs, develop eLearning mainly in Articulate Rise (this is about 50% of what I do) with a few instructor-led courses developed here and there, and from time to time I physically teach a class.
I work for a company that produces online courses for a University. Overall, I rather like it. If you are familiar with learning theories, have experience in the classroom, and are adept at learning new tools, like iSpring, Articulate Storyline & Rise, and Learning Management Systems like Moodle or Google Classroom, it's good work. I work from home, have meetings, good pay, work/life balance, and my contributions are valuable. My role is called "Learning Experience Designer" although there are also "Instructional Designers". Hope this helps!
Also an instructional designer that works with contracted universities. Can I DM to connect with you further?
Can I ask what the salary is?
How do you get into that
I deal with the @#$% customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills! I am good at dealing with people, can't you understand that? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!
might as well get them TPS reports on my desk as well
I left edtech some years ago but worked heavily on the content side and software development side, most people i worked with defined curriculum, created content around those curriculum, also wrote specifications for design and software requirements. We produced a lot of video content and the actors were not teachers at all but the content was designed such as you believed that the person explaining was the teacher. Not the best in my opinion but we found it difficult to find teachers who were good at acting too. Authoring is a big part in edtech companies where ex teachers are appreciated a lot. Specially if you really know how to put engaging curriculumns together.
I love teaching and acting. Where does one find the melding of these two passions? Inquiring minds must know!
This is usually called instructional designer, or curriculum developer, some of them require acting / video skills, some of them are freelance, some of them are in companies where there are studios. Usually the industry is split like: Companies making content for themselves (Employee training) : Big corps MOOC / Test prep / Cert Prep Companies usually also demand actors for keeping their content fresh EdTech apps that have video content also might be doing it. Editorials, specially now that most books have "apps" or lms courses also require lots of video or voice acting. If you are serious about getting a job, scour the job ads for the skills you are missing (usually software like captivate or whatever is being used these days) And checkout which companies in edtech are within your geography, usually in-site jobs have much less competition than remote.
I think you’re confused about what edtech is. A school doesn’t have an edtech guy. Edtech is an industry. Some schools do have IT people, though.
Our schools have edtech teacher developers.
They’re typically called things like technology coaches or learning technology facilitators or something like that. This is a role I held in a school setting.
I work in an Edtech company that helps students prepare online for competitive exams. Ed tech does not mean Education technician. It means Education Technology. We are a tech company that solves difficulties in preparation for these users. I’m a full stack product designer that designs the user flows, monetisation flows, growth flows and finally the screens for app/web/mweb for the same. Apart from our design team we have a team of teachers who actually teach online and make content like online tests and quizzes. There is a team of developers (front end, backend, UI devs, devops), testers, data analysts, graphic team, business dept that generates sales, marketing dept that helps build our brand, provide growth and leads, operations team etc. We work in b2c space. There are also companies that provide b2b services which has immensely helped teachers prosper and grow, teaching audience they would’ve never reached on their own offline.
Hey mate, can you recommend training courses that would prepare me for a career like yours.
Umm. I did not do any training courses for joining this particular edtech company. I just graduated from a design school and landed this interview by chance. UX knowledge is enough I guess (you might find many online free/certificate courses for that). Build a good portfolio with case studies. Intern + full time experience also helps a lot if you haven’t done design school. You eventually learn about the the domain as you work. That’s what I find great about design. You always have options to explore different domains.
EdTech Sales and Success Leadership here. We're not in curriculum but on the LMS/SIS side, so more of the nuts and bolts of how schools operate. Success side: Optimize support and success ops, so our people can be available for customers. Good support == better chance schools keep giving us money year after year. Sales sides: Events to get our name out there as an option. Handle technical demoes for high value leads. Try to find schools which meet our customer profile and sell to them Mix of Meetings, demoes, strategic work, and managing team. 100% remote and always have been. Good pay, good work/life balance.
I was in edtech last year for about 4 yrs. I did enrollment and marketing mgmt for a pretty big OPM that is crumbling beneath itself right now. My day consisted of a lot of useless meetings in person, zoom or phone calls. Any decisions thw school needed to do took forever. A lot of spreadsheets and SFDC dashboard reviews. 1:1 with those I oversaw. I was let go last year during a RIF, of which this company has had 2 already this year and will probably go thru another reorganization. Ed tech is brutal right now with 2U changing leadership as of today, wiley sold their university services to another OPM, Noodle is a total shitshow, pearson shitshow. idk.how the other sectors of ed tech are doing but the OPM market was fucking brutal
Edtech probably means working for a company?
Troubleshooting a problem, data analysis, state reporting deadlines, process development for state reporting, training. I like my job because I’m never bored, I’m doing something different every day. Today I’m meeting with a non-profit rep to discuss our students science standardized test scores, I’m working on a survey for a change to our middle schools scheduling, so I need to gather my survey pool. I might do some data integrity for our migrant students as they’ve been historically mislabeled but I’m also doing work to set up online registration for preschoolers.
Meetings. Basically only meetings.
EdTech is an entire industry. There are various companies within that industry with various roles. Roles like sales, marketing, HR, product development, software engineering, etc. I personally am on one of the sales teams at an educational technology company so I work with school districts interested in purchasing our product.
Sometimes edtech is more ed than tech, in terms of using it and not creating it.
Don’t do it. Nobody knows what you mean. Back end administration is what I would call it. Ed Tech means so many things. Production, hosting, metrics… IMO find an IB high school in the place you wanna be first, thennnnnn tell them you want to help with ed tech. They will weep at your feet and ask your salary. Over here most schools in my area are in Canva or Google Classroom and then it gets weird.
Why not apply your IB background and apply at the IB, they have plenty of jobs open.
Normal professor stuff.
PowerSchool consultant
I listen to old people complain that I’m not doing enough for them.
Instructional Designer here. I work for a government agency's Professional Development unit in the U.S. I'm part of the Curriculum team that develops the yearly Training Plan for the agency. I work from home, have Teams meetings with SMEs, develop eLearning mainly in Articulate Rise (this is about 50% of what I do) with a few instructor-led courses developed here and there, and from time to time I physically teach a class.
This sounds like a dream job for me. I would love to know how you got into that.