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I am not a chicken farmer: A learning designer’s reflections on co-designing with academics

Spoken presentation by Mark Parry https://teledvisors.net/about-the-sym... Third Space Slowposium, Friday 15th to Sat 30th November 2024 –Online As with most provocations in academic contexts, this video is designed to challenge established ideas and spark critical debate. It’s been developed to inform, entertain and push you out of your comfort zone, encourage you to think differently, reconsider your assumptions, or explore new perspectives. How might we better understand Academics and ourselves? On a warm day in the mid-1990s, I visited a chicken farm near Gosford. I was researching and writing an agriculture module and was there to consult with the farmer about his birds and the hidden layers of the farm infrastructure. I brought along a camera and audio recorder. This presentation poetically explores co-designing with university Academics and other Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) by reflecting on that large part of the ‘educational technology iceberg’ that’s usually hidden and underwater. Those faint pencil-mark discussions, negotiations, and planning sessions are eventually erased and removed, rendered invisible when the final, sparkling learning resource is delivered. A central cog in the machine exists somewhere in the middle, a professional staff member with a job to do. Those specific and often complicated professional interactions about aligning content to assessments, the critical review of existing assets, and the sequencing of content and activities with pedagogy that are crucial to the role are usually rendered invisible as the course is delivered to learners. I’ve been a multimedia producer, instructional designer, academic developer, learning designer, and learning technologist. I am not a chicken farmer. Drawn from professional experiences of more than 30 years as an educational developer working across various educational sectors, including university and higher education, this spoken word presentation explores a central yet often overlooked role of learning technologists in higher education and beyond. Navigating the third space: Proceedings of the 2024 Third Space Symposium (PDF) https://zenodo.org/records/17677327