Interview Questions

Q. How many years have you been a professional in the field?

A. 21 years
Q. Describe your specific role(s) as a professional.
A. Instructional Delivery, Facilitator, Consultant, Instructional Designer, System
Administrator, Project Manager
Q. Describe how you identify current trends and issues in the field.
A. Industry experts such as the Association for Talent Development, Society for Human
Resources, Training Industry, Bersin & Deloitte, Talent Management Software
Companies
Q. What trends are likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or education over the next
several years?
A. Technology, specifically Social Media, rise of Virtual and Augmented Reality; The Way
People Learn, specifically, just-in-time/on-demand consumption, reliance on SME’s and
videos (YouTube); and increasing Difficulty in Measuring Impact to justify resources.
Q. How do you see the trends impacting the decisions you make and what you do? What
emerging technologies are likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or education
over the next several years?
A. The trends influence the software/systems decisions we make, the resources allocated to
support initiatives, and the people we hire to support the initiatives. The ability to learn
where you work and when and where you need it will drive us toward technology that
supports that – Mobile, Application Programming Interfaces, Augmented Reality.
Q. What factors do you consider when deciding to adopt emerging technologies for your
organization?
A. Strategic Business Objectives, use cases, user adoption, cost, cyber security impacts
Q. What challenges are likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or education over the
next several years?
A. Learner’s expectations are changing - they want to learn through experiences and be able
to apply their knowledge immediately. Technology is advancing at such a rapid rate that it’s
difficult to take pauses from operational commitments to focus on preparing self for the
future needs. Not only is our profession responsible for designing learning to meet other’s
present learning needs, but we also have to keep learning and developing ourselves to meet
the future needs of learners. That’s difficult to do while balancing operational commitments
with non-work commitments.
Q. Describe ethical and legal issues that are of concern in your job.
A. Some content that needs to be taught is copyrighted so it makes it difficult and costly for
an organization to deliver training on content that has been copyrighted.
Q. In considering current trends and issues in distance education and technology, what
theological issues or faith based issues do you see Christians facing? (if applicable)
A. Not applicable – I work for the government and what we deliver doesn’t factor in religion
as a basis for how we deliver the content/learning.
Q. What advice do you have for a future professional entering the distance education or
educational technology field?
A. Be mindful that the trends are just that and at the base of everything is the learner needs.
If you’re not meeting the learner’s needs, then your efforts are wasted. Don’t overcomplicate
something just to be on trend.

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