Walk me through your experience working with educators as subject matter experts. How do you ensure you can work with them effectively to achieve learning goals?
As an eLearning Development Director, you typically won't be expected to be a subject matter expert in all educational areas. However, you will be expected to work harmoniously with faculty and administrative professionals to distill information to include in online learning materials and document that information to translate it into learning courses and materials. By proposing this question to you, your interviewer wants to learn about your collaborations with educators as subject matter experts. Describe how you have achieved success through cooperative efforts during your career and how you'll be able to do the same in this role.
"Throughout my career, I have worked with a wide variety of faculty with great success. I work to collaborate with them regularly in my current role. I develop the materials, and the educators are the experts providing the content. We must build trust together. I aim to be knowledgeable, friendly, and honest, and I expect the same in return from them. I deliver on my word and don't hesitate to communicate any feedback I have for them. If I am unfamiliar with the content I am developing, like what happened recently for me in an engineering curriculum, I took time to meet with the professor after hours to gain a better understanding of the materials I was creating."
