“Labels Do Matter” A Brief Survey of Instructional Design Job Posting Titles

An interesting article that I remember reading a few years ago, Labels Do Matter by Patrick Lowenthal who I collaborate with on Twitter and the ITForum. Here he discussed the difficulty of various labels that professionals in our field hold, e.g., Instructional Designer, Instructional Technologist, Educational Technologists, etc. These are used in job postings, titles of academic programs, etc. While there is a great amount of discussions and disagreements in that area, I am not finding any specific information regarding levels/career paths within those labels. Although, when we visit institutional job posting sites for our “instructional” field, e.g., HigherEdJobs and The Chronicle we find various levels like:

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