Instructional Design
“My role has been traditionally to help people with the how of things; how to set up a gradebook in the LMS, how to use classroom response tools to do things in the classroom – and early on I realized that lots of people really were looking for how-to, but never thought much about the why they were doing things.”
The above excerpt really resonated with me because I am in the exact same position (Learning Technologist vs Instructional Design) . I consider myself a consultant to faculty when implementing learning technology into their course workflow. I focus on maintainable and scalable solutions as classes vary in size, and the how to when it comes to implementing them. This activity has opened a different dimension as to why these solutions are introduced in the first place, what key questions should be asked to SMEs and how it should be used to improve their course delivery and the student experience.
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