Elearning Guild

How about knowing of a membership which allows you to bookmark various content items, select blogs for aggregation, and participate in online discussions? How about being updated about the latest goings on of the eLearning industry and the practical application concepts? If you are curious to know the answer of these two questions, you must seriously consider joining the eLearning guild - One of the largest consortium of professionals interested in knowing about eLearning.

Who are the members of this guild?

eLearning consists of aspects like design, development and management of educational content. The guild is made up of a cross section of professionals from different geographies and industries. All of them have a common aim - To promote eLearning as an effective tool for interactive training across different organizations.

Currently, this guild has more than 26000 members with more than 50% of them belonging to the senior management cadre of different organizations. Close to 24% of the professionals enrolled as members of the guild currently work in Instructional Design Roles in their organizations.

What are the benefits of joining this guild?

  • Learning Solutions e-Magazine - This is one of the top publications in the eLearning industry. The magazine provides you with knowledge on ideas, strategies and techniques used for implementation of various tools to build an e-Learning solution. The members can access this magazine only in the weeks it is published.

  • Online Discussion Board - The members can connect to other professionals of the e-Learning industry where they would be able to share their concerns and questions with other members. Most of the knowledge development of the members happen due to this online discussion board.

  • Resource Directory - Should you wish to post resources which you think will be useful for members in developing an eLearning tool for their organization, you can do so by accessing the Resource Directory. Members would be able to post up to 20 resources at a time.

There are many other benefits that membership to the eLearning guild has to offer the candidates. Should you be wishing to join the guild, do not waste time and join it straight away. For the benefit of prospective members, let me tell you that there are four levels of membership - Associate, Member, Member Plus and Premium Member.

The Associate Membership is free of charge whereas the Member would need to pay $99 annual fee. While the Member Plus membership costs $695 as annual fee, the Premium membership costs a cool $1695 as annual fee. With rise in costs of the membership fee, one will receive benefits which will compensate the so-called 'exorbitant cost' of these memberships.