Also called: Course Production Specialist, Multimedia Course Assistant
Helps build online courses by uploading content, editing videos, captioning, and testing modules.
A production assistant might edit a recorded lecture, add captions, build quiz questions in the learning platform, and click through every page to find broken links before launch.
Estimate.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Associate's degree (2-year), about 2 years after high school. Associate or bachelor's; skill with video and course software matters most.
Ways in: 2-year college, Self-taught, On-the-job training. Training cost: Under $15k.
Majors to look at: Digital Media, Instructional Technology, Communications.
Growing much faster than average (about 8% over 10 years). Tracks training and development specialists.
High risk for 10 years. AI auto-captions, edits video and builds quiz questions, the core of this job, so openings are likely to drop sharply.
Classes: Video production, Computer applications, Graphic design.
Official data: O*NET occupation 13-1151.
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