How to Be a Learning Developer in Higher Education

Alicja Syska is a hybrid academic at the University of Plymouth, UK. She is a Learning Developer for the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business alongside teaching and research roles in Education and History. Carina Buckley is the Instructional Design Manager at Solent University, UK. She is an AdvanceHE Principal Fellow and a researcher in the field of Learning Development.

Introduction PART ONE: BECOMING A LEARNING DEVELOPER: IDEAS AND IDENTITY 1 Theory in LD 1 We are All Players 2 Conceptual Foundations in Learning Development 3 The Mess We’re in: LD Pedagogies and the Question of Student Agency 4 The Development of Expertise and Identity within a Community of Practice: A Networking Model 5 Hybrid Learning Developers: Between the Discipline and the Third Space PART 2: BEING A LEARNING DEVELOPER: PRAXIS 6 A Day in the Life: What the Learning Developer Does 7 Diversity in our Expertise: Empowering Neurodivergent Students within Learning Development 8 Teaching Writing in LD 9 Empowering and Enabling: Leveraging Technology for a Student-Centred Future 10 Transformative Social Learning Spaces 11 The View From Over Here: What the students think about Learning Development PART THREE: REFLECTING IN LEARNING DEVELOPMENT: CULTIVATING CRITICALITY 12 Critical Self-Reflection in Learning Development 13 Practice vs Policy: Learning Development’s Role in Supporting, Developing, and Challenging Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Higher Education Sector 14 Closing the Gap: Learning Development and Race 15 Decolonisation in Learning Development 16 Learning Development In, Against, and Beyond the Neoliberal University: Critical Learning Development and Critical Academic Literacies PART FOUR: MAKING KNOWLEDGE: LEARNING DEVELOPERS AS RESEARCHERS 17 Research and Scholarship in Learning Development 18 Methodologies for Research in Learning Development 19 Learning Developers as Writers: The Four Tendencies Framework to Get Writing 20 Publishing in Learning Development: A Primer for New(ish) Authors PART FIVE: BECOMING ESTABLISHED IN LEARNING DEVELOPMENT: THE POTENTIAL IN AND FOR LD 21 Succeeding at Learning Development, Sonia Hood 22 The Impact of Learning Development 23 Leadership in Learning Development: A Networked Approach 24 Professional Development and Recognition in LD 25 Raising the Profile of Learning Development in Higher Education: Institutional and Sector Perspectives 26 The Future of Learning Development: Two Visions. Opening.