Opportunities in Indian e-learning Industry

E-learning is a booming industry in India and Indian service providers are witnessing a tremendous growth in this sector with western countries having understood their potential in this sector. Indian companies have demonstrated their capability in delivering innovative-learning solutions across the globe and this has made India the favorite e-learning offshoring destination.

Major corporate giants to smaller business firms have rightly understood the high demand and interesting future of e-learning and have embraced e-learning in a big way. ValueNotes estimates that there are around 35 e-learning providers who have more than 100 employees. Apart from that, there are hundreds of smaller providers in this space.

Major cities like Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Mumbai, Delhi and Pune are becoming prominent centers for e-learning service providers and eventually this has opened up a baggage of job opportunities for the folks skilled in this field. This boom has transformed the mindset of people who always looked at IT sector as a field with jobs only for software engineers. Statistics reveal that in near future, the position of an online-learning designer will be one among the top 10 positions in Global 1000 companies.

Hot career opportunities in Indian e-learning industry

• Instruction designer/Learning Designer
• Graphics designer
• Media developers
• Project Managers
• Subject Matter Experts of all domains
• LMS programmers
• Quality Analysts
• Editors
• Etutors for online tutoring

Though e-learning has opened up new avenues in the job market, there are no major formal degree courses offered for it in India. Only a very few private institutions offer certification programs related to the e-learning field. Symbiosis center of distance-learning offers a Post Graduate Diploma in Instructional Design and there are quite a few private computer institutions that offer certification programs on Instructional Design, Graphic Design, Multimedia Development, and so on.

With e-learning field grown at a greater magnitude and with potential to develop learning content on almost all verticals, don’t you think it’s necessary to have recognized certification programs in India for the people who want to enter the field?