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Trust, Assessment, Identity and all that stuff

Being a third space professional does your head in on some days. Working as I do in education I've been attempting to reconcile a bunch of different ideas around student experience, teacher experience and manager experience. As learning design is such a fluid space in the higher education sector, by fluid, I mean one needs to adapt to shifting circumstances and take into account a multitude of views and ideas. There are so many concepts to throw into the pot that it can be easy to become bogged in a morass.  Here are some of the placeholder tags that have been bubbling in my cauldron of late: trust (and cheating), shadow education, active social learning, authentic assessment, narrative identity, authenticity of assessment by supervisors on placement in work integrated learning, agreed values, ethics, academic honesty, feed forward and what does that mean anyway and how is that different from formative feedback?  Add to this action research, what is its purpose if the research...