Teach One Session.
Earn a Credly Badge.
Share your expertise with the next generation of instructional designers and walk away with an exclusive IDOL Academy Guest Faculty credential — verified and shareable on LinkedIn the moment you're done.
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Exclusive Credly Badge
IDOL Academy Guest Faculty
You probably didn't have a lot of people willing to pull back the curtain when you were starting out.
Most of us figured it out the hard way. Piecing things together from job postings, trial and error, and the occasional mentor who actually had time for us.
IDOL Academy is a GNPEC-authorized, 24-week vocational certificate program for people who are serious about transitioning into instructional design. Not just learning about it — actually doing it, building a portfolio, and landing the role.
Our students show up motivated, prepared, and hungry for exactly what you have: real experience, real perspective, and real talk about what the work actually looks like.
IDOL Guest Faculty is your chance to be the person you wished you'd had.
Real recognition for real expertise.
An exclusive Credly badge
Every Guest Faculty member who completes a session earns the IDOL Academy Guest Faculty digital badge. Verified, shareable, and ready to live on your LinkedIn profile where it belongs.
Visibility to 3,300+
Your session gets promoted across the IDOL Academy community, our social channels, and our Mighty Networks platform. We handle the marketing. You just show up.
A professionally designed social graphic
We create a branded promotional graphic for your session automatically. Share it before, during, or after. It looks good because we care about how our guests are represented.
Direct access to your future colleagues
Our students become instructional designers at organizations like Google, Amazon, and IBM. This is a room worth being in.
Practitioners.
Not theorists.
The title matters less than the depth. We want people who are doing the work, in the field, right now — and who have something specific and actionable to share with a room full of motivated career changers.
- Senior Instructional Designer or above Or a specialty our students need — accessibility, learning analytics, xAPI, ILT facilitation, freelancing, AI integration, stakeholder management.
- Currently working as a practitioner Not primarily in an academic role. Doing the work, in the field, right now.
- Ready to teach something specific and actionable A framework, a process, a hard-won lesson. One session, one clear takeaway.
- Willing to bring your own Zoom link That's all we ask. We handle everything else.
Three steps. That's it.
Apply
Fill out the short form below. Tell us who you are, what you want to teach, and when you are available. It takes about five minutes.
Get confirmed
We review your application and send a confirmation with your session details. Your session gets promoted to the community and your branded graphic is on its way.
Teach and earn your badge
Show up, deliver your session, and walk away with your IDOL Academy Guest Faculty Credly badge. We handle everything else.
The students in this program are going to become your colleagues, your collaborators, and your future peers in this industry.
Come teach them something real.
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