Conference paper
Learning designers as capacity builders in Australian universities
Research and Development in Higher Education: Next Generation, Higher Education: Challenges, Changes and Opportunities, Volume 42, pp.94-104
Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) Incorporated Conference, 42nd (Auckland, New Zealand, 02-Jul-2019–05-Jul-2019)
Higher Education Academy, Engineering Subject Centre
2020
Abstract
Central teaching and learning centres are responsible for translating new sectoral and institutional strategic priorities into practice. In response, directors look to recruit, employ and retain learning designers (also called educational designers or similar) to increase existing capacity. Learning designers play a vital role in building institutional capacity through sustained technological and pedagogical innovation, to meet these sector demands and the continually changing academic and professional practices. More research is needed about how best to attract and retain new learning designers both from an institutional and employee perspective. The researchers designed two separate surveys to target the following stakeholder groups: 1) directors of central teaching and learning centres, and 2) learning designers employed under the auspices of these centres. After gaining human ethics approval, the researchers used online surveys for data collection. Potential participants were contacted through publicly available professional email addresses and professional networks which directed members to the project webpage, containing links to both surveys. Twenty-one directors and 103 learning designers responded. Data were coded and analysed using descriptive statistics and NVivo Pro 11. The results provide new empirical data for directors and learning designers to understand the roles and responsibilities of learning designers and the importance of identity and agency within this emerging cohort of professionals who contribute to institutional and sectoral capacity.
Details
- Title
- Learning designers as capacity builders in Australian universities
- Authors
- Christine Slade (Author) - University of QueenslandJeffrey Parker (Author) - University of QueenslandDominic McGrath (Author) - University of QueenslandRuth Greenaway (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast
- Contributors
- Eva Heinrich (Editor)Roseanna Bourke (Editor)
- Publication details
- Research and Development in Higher Education: Next Generation, Higher Education: Challenges, Changes and Opportunities, Volume 42, pp.94-104
- Conference details
- Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) Incorporated Conference, 42nd (Auckland, New Zealand, 02-Jul-2019–05-Jul-2019)
- Publisher
- Higher Education Academy, Engineering Subject Centre
- Date published
- 2020
- ISSN
- 1441-001X
- ISBN
- 9780648550730
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2020 Dr Christine Slade, Dr Jeffrey Parker, Dominic McGrath and Dr Ruth Greenaway. The authors assign to HERDSA and educational non-profit institutions a non-exclusive license to use this document for personal use and in courses of instruction provided that the article is used in full and this copyright statement is reproduced. The authors also grant a non-exclusive license to HERDSA to publish this document in full on the World Wide Web (prime site and mirrors) and within the portable electronic format of RDHE Vol. 42. Any other usage is prohibited without the express permission of the authors
- Organisation Unit
- School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450962402621
- Output Type
- Conference paper
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