{"id":1517,"date":"2017-02-13T15:45:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T15:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/learning-technology\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2022-04-13T15:46:54","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T15:46:54","slug":"the-learning-technologists-areas-of-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/the-learning-technologists-areas-of-responsibility\/","title":{"rendered":"The Learning Technologist’s Areas of Responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is a companion piece to an agenda item for the next LT Group meeting on 21 February. Posted by Simon Wood and Catherine Emmett.<\/em><\/p>\n

At the last meeting, the group felt it would be valuable for the Learning Technologist (LT) community to discuss the Learning Technologist Review Report shared with us. In this blog post, we would like to talk about how we might\u00a0respond to one aspect of the report. Please read this post, and come to the next meeting ready to discuss.<\/p>\n

Background<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Learning Technologist Review Report describes…<\/p>\n

\u201clearning technologists as critical conduits marrying practice in education and technology”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It follows that there is a need to invest and develop LTs, who will have a growing strategic role as the importance of digital education grows. However, the report also notes…<\/p>\n

\u201cthe role of a Learning Technologist as a consultant who understands the marriage between pedagogy and technology, is not widely understood\u201d and there are variations between roles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Providing some clarity on this varied role is perhaps the most obvious aspect to which we can all clearly contribute immediately. We therefore propose this as the first point to start with in responding to the Review.\u00a0In order to respond, we suggest it is worth discussing the kind of high-level generic areas of responsibilities a learning technologist might have within a higher education institution. In this post, we would like to introduce this by talking about what those areas of responsibility might be, and why it might be important for us to think about them in relation to our roles and the Learning Technologist Review.<\/p>\n

A proposed framework<\/strong><\/p>\n

We are proposing that we develop a framework of LT areas of responsibility. We are not arguing that any learning technologist can be pigeonholed; indeed, for most of us, our roles encompass several, if not all, of these areas. The framework will simply provide a means for describing the different aspects of any given role, and their relative importance. This would help us be clear and confident in our own skills, inform how we can meet the needs of the University, and enable us to develop professionally, based on our own strengths and passions.<\/p>\n

There are clear advantages to doing this:<\/p>\n