During the height of the pandemic, Inside Higher Ed(Opens in new window) hailed the instructional designer as “hottest job in higher education”.
Date: Tuesday 10 January 2023Time: 4-5pmOrganiser: University of LondonLocation: Online - Registration
During the height of the pandemic, Inside Higher Ed(Opens in new window) hailed the instructional designer as “hottest job in higher education”. Emergency remote teaching had to be acceptable. Yet universities were finding that “students and their tuition-paying parents won’t stand for simply winging it.” They were finding online education requires its own expertise. They were finding it takes more planning and design. In other words, universities were finding they needed instructional designers. Or, depending on who you ask, learning designers.
But, after a period of new partnerships and investments, the interest appears to have recently declined.
These events only leave us with more questions than answers. Such as, what is learning design? Is it a new approach? And what problems can it solve, if any?
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