American Instructional Designer Professional Development

Along with the rapid development of the global information industry revolution, in recent years in the field of education, media, corporate human resources training of digitized online learning and distance education system full coverage of every moment to remind us, the new learning way era has quietly arrived, the information age makes network curriculum and instructional design can be the perfect fusion, which requires special education technicians to cany out such work. As a result, a considerable potential for development of new professions-instructional designers came into being and developed rapidly create and lead a new era of learning and teaching methods for the majority of educators, to become the21st century is an extremely important career fields First, in the United States, Britain and other developed countries and regions, the instructional designer has been a lot of experts and scholars hailed as the Jinling industry of the21st century. In recent years, China’s Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other places recruitment of a large number of instructional designers, major foreign-funded enterprises and educational companies have hired college graduates engaged in the profession of the instnictional designer. But in China, most people are still unfamiliar with this career of instructional designers, our instructional designers still in the initial stage of development of the translation of foreign instructional designers, university No special training system.I December2012CNKI instructional designers for keywords exact match search, the search results only13. As can be seen, domestic scholars instructional designers rarely, are not systematically career connotation of the instructional designer, the type of job duties, qualifications and training to give full attention to. With our step-by-step development of the system of lifelong education and corporate human resources training, e-learning needs strong and prosperous, the demand for specialized personnel engaged in the profession of teaching designers will be more and more. Therefore, understand the connotation of instructional designers, the type of professional certification and its culture is the basic premise of the train instructional designers, the thesis is divided into six chapters to study the training and professional development of instructional designers.By combing U.S. university teaching designer culture and professional development in the post-English literature in the course of the study, literature research, comparative study, case study method to solve the problem described and demonstrated.The first chapter on the background of the development of the profession of the United States instructional designers, a clear concept of the professional development of instructional designers research methods and significance, and instructional designers and content. Second chapter studies and reviews of existing instructional designers at home and abroad are summarized and generalization, including foreign research culture of the United States instructional designers and training program, employing sources, quality structure, job responsibilities and roles several aspects are discussed in detail, domestic research is to collect the introduction and presentation of the existing domestic academic instructional designer career. The third chapter analyzes and presentation of the Professional Development and Present of the United States instructional designers, and a detailed comparison and reviews a qualified instructional designer should have the ability and quality, and the professional reality of our country to introduce instructional designers were analyzed. Chapter Indiana University and the University of New Mexico, instructional designers specific professional training program, this paper introduces how the United States colleges and universities hierarchical culture junior and senior instructional designer, investigation and analysis of the actual situation on the training level and training objectives systematically introduced, for the study of the introduction of practical experience. Chapter to study the professional development of instructional designers post, summed up the three main models of professional development in American instructional designers, that is to study a master’s degree, professional certification and independent of distance education to build the Trinity the post-professional development model, provides guidance for the development of China’s instructional designers. Chapter6the previous chapters basis, summed the professional development of our instructional designers instructional designers pre-training and post-training and Inspiration, paper demonstrates that the actual needs of the professional instructional designers.