From the Editor's Desk - January 2005

Welcome to Wavelength, a monthly e-Newsletter for the Instructional Design and Content Development community of India. Indian Instructional Designers and Developers are different from their international counterparts in many ways. An Indian Instructional Designer many a times finds herself writing for an audience that she has known only through movies or books. Most of the times she finds herself bobbing up and down in the ocean of Instructional Design, without having “designed” to do so. She then struggles hard to stay afloat, groping around her to find broken bits of information and knowledge for support, while the high tides of project deadlines threaten to submerge her.

Indian educational system has not yet recognized Instructional Design as a formal discipline so most Instructional Designers and Content Developers have acquired their skills and capability through experience. As a community we still need to go a long way before the eLearning industry can recruit Instructional Designers straight from a college, put them on a project, and forget their worries. We also need to find out if there is a possibility of cutting down the learning cycle time for new Instructional Designers, and help experienced Instructional Designers become more aware of the new heights that Instructional Design can achieve through the advancing technology.

Wavelength is an attempt to string together such resources that will be useful to Instructional Designers and Content Developers in a practical manner. An understanding of the day-to-day issues faced by the designer is mainstay of this newsletter. It shall be my endeavor to assess and evaluate each Wavelength resource to make sure that it has a practical value for the intended audience.

I hope that Wavelength will be successful in its mission, but to be successful it will need the support of those who it exists for. I hope to hear your views, recommendations, and suggestions. If you know an Instructional Designer, Content Developer, Technical Writer, or someone who would like to be one of these, gift him or her a free subscription of Wavelength. If you would like to send me your views and be published in Wavelength, write to me.

Wish you a wonderful, enlightened, bright, and brilliant new year!

Thanks and Warm Regards,
Shafali R. Anand

(Editor & Publisher – Wavelength)

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