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Towards sustainable technology-enhanced innovation in higher education: Advancing learning design by understanding and supporting teacher design practice

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posted on 2024-11-14, 17:55 authored by Susan BennettSusan Bennett, Lori Lockyer, Shirley AgostinhoShirley Agostinho
Improving teacher design promises to be a scalable, sustainable approach to building capacity amongst a workforce faced with complex and evolving drivers of change in higher education worldwide. While design has long been recognised as a routine part of teaching, there has been renewed interest in supporting and understanding the design work that teachers do to foster innovation, particularly in technology-enhanced learning, at institutional scale by influencing teachers' practices. Re-framing teaching as design usefully emphasises the creative problem-solving needed to balance pedagogical, logistical and technical considerations within specific educational contexts, tailored to learners' needs. There is potential for this re-framing to build on and advance work in "learning design" and "design for learning" that has generated a wide range of practical supports and tools. In this article, we explore, problematise and conceptualise the notion of "teacher as designer" within the complexity of contemporary higher education through a critical review of existing empirical and conceptual work internationally. We offer insights into the current state of knowledge about teacher design in higher education, highlight gaps and possibilities, offer a new conceptualisation drawing on practice theory and set out propositions to provoke further debate about teacher design as a vehicle for sustainable innovation in higher education.

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Bennett, S., Lockyer, L. & Agostinho, S. (2018). Towards sustainable technology-enhanced innovation in higher education: Advancing learning design by understanding and supporting teacher design practice. British Journal of Educational Technology, 49 (6), 1014-1026.

Journal title

British Journal of Educational Technology

Volume

49

Issue

6

Pagination

1014-1026

Language

English

RIS ID

130102

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