Dear Eloise,
interesting question - I've been both a learning developer (how the
profession in the UK tends to refer to itself as we have a very diverse
range of job titles) and an education developer over my career, and see
them as very closely related and complementary roles, indeed flip sides
of the same coin! I'm a learning developer ie student facing these days,
but find lots of opportunities to work with education development
staff-facing colleagues - projects to develop teaching and learning
resources, collaborating over staff development, input into policy
development, networking, an 'in' into curricula....and JISCmail lists to
discuss on... Informally I find it invaluable and formally it can be a
very productive partnership. Given that there's often no single clear
formal route into either profession, I wonder how many of us have been
both, although education development is the older and more established
profession.
ALDinHE is the UK learning developers' version of SEDA, and I find them
both stimulating and thoughtful communities (with very lively jiscmail
lists!).
best wishes,
Helen
On 24/02/2016 21:25, Eloise tan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Has anybody participated in or heard of partnerships between faculty developers and those working in student learning / academic support roles (here they're called learning strategists, I've seen them called learning advisors)? I'm not sure what that partnership would look like.
>
> A colleague started working in a learning strategist role with students and we find we are both talking about teaching/learning but from different perspectives. We find ourselves saying 'we should do something together' but not sure what that 'something' would look like/what purpose it would serve/what learning could emerge.
>
> Eloise Tan, PhD, FSEDA
> Coordinator, Academic Initiatives
> Centre for Community Partnerships
> University of Toronto
> 569 Spadina Ave., Suite 315B
> 416.946.7748
> www.ccp.utoronto.ca
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Dr Helen Webster
Academic Developer
Anglia Learning and Teaching
Anglia Ruskin University
Twitter: @scholastic_rat
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