About this episode

Lisa Emmington discusses her journey as a freelance instructional designer and how she has adapted her business through various technological changes since the 90s.

Lisa Emmington is a freelance instructional designer (or as her newly SEO'd website puts it, a training course designer) based near Milton Keynes. She's been freelance almost her entire career, starting out as an IT trainer back when Apple Macs were a mystery box on people's desks, and has reinvented her business every time the market has shifted underneath her - from face to face training, to early e-learning software, to mentoring individual course creators today in the face of AI. In...

People in this episode

Host: Steve Folland

Guest: Lisa Emmington

Topics covered

• freelancing
• instructional design
• technology shifts
• e-learning
• mentoring
• AI impact

Keywords

• freelance
• instructional designer
• training course designer
• e-learning
• AI
• technology shifts
• mentoring

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Apple, AI

Places: Milton Keynes

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