Alicia Pringle

Blended or online learning activities and environments are increasingly important in institutions’ educational strategy. As a result, learning designers are becoming more central to curriculum development. While the reasons for this trend are often linked to the increasing importance of technologically-enhanced learning, the emergent role of the designers goes far beyond technology. They ensure that pedagogy, design philosophy, space and practice are aligned with the educational goals. However, a common challenge is a disconnect between faculty, leadership and learning designers around the traditional conceptions of academic teaching roles versus the reality of complex online or blended teaching workforces. These cultural and conceptual tensions can lead to setbacks and failures of large curriculum projects and to tensions and demoralizations in the workforce.

Join this hands-on work shop to learn and share what works, and what doesn’t work, in building effective partnerships in curriculum design.