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"Enough of this professionalization nonsense. Education != instruction - education, to quote the good Cardinal Newman, "is a higher word."
We, faculty, establish the environment for education. Professional staff such as "learning designers" or "instructional designers" are extraneous and a drain on our precious few resources. Replacing tenure lines with an army of professionalized staff loaded with credentials alongside low-paid and necessarily subservient and contingent adjunct faculty is not the appropriate way forward. You are complicit with the destruction of higher education and the transformation of our institutions into the corporate university. Reject these efforts to redefine education into the instrumentalized system that you are already fully involved in. Enough!
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At many instituitons, the process of developing digital instructional materials still operates in a cottage-industry fashion; individual instructors with limited funds, incomplete skill sets, and insufficient incentives, bare most of the burden for course design and development. While service departments provide technical support and instructional guidance, they've made only a small dent in the instructional model, to date.