A day in a life of an instructional designer
- Aoyumi Jung
- Jan 18
- 3 min read
Written on 02 August 2024
I publish this blog as a way to express my gratitude for LXD for shaping to be a tougher person in 2024
Today talking to P’Proud, she is joining us short-term to design shortlist for the "Leadership Course" and I feel the positive about LXD work’s impact for the first time. S&V course really touched her, hit the spot on reflection on values and purposes of the entrepreneurship journey. I am happy to hear, and share with her my story of coming to Thailand and explaining what ID does. I should have recorded the conversation to write my blog haha. I’ve told to people about my job in many angles, and honestly, every time doing that, I feel more positive, and affirmed of some light of the job.
The past week has been meaningful as I was constructing more learning materials such as slide presentation and visual aids, cheatsheet, text narration, storytelling of the script, case studies and course activities, role and requirement of capstone projects in assessing students’ learning. Then the conversation about setting my IDP (individual development plan), debriefing on meetings, chatting with Ajarn Stephane about education, and challenges of AI and how to assess students’ learning and foster them to learn with critical thinking, and less dependence on AI tools. It’s so fascinating, and I feel that I could talk about that forever!
Then today P’Ted shared a course on Novoed on how to use AI to enhance workforce’s outcomes, integrating it into LXD work. I am curious what the course offers, and whether there is any useful application for my work. Talking about learning design ignites all of my energy, and passion for this work. I really like questions P’Proud asked today:
How do we support learners to learn? What exactly do we do? How did we end up having this script? Who created it it? How do you assess what students learn? Do you build the course from scratch? How do you come up with a list of those topics in each chapter?
Honestly with these questions, to make someone who could understand what I do, I got it! and I am really happy to try to explain the essence of our work to them. I found words to describe the process, the purpose, what challenges are we addressing in the academia or any learning environments. Talking about such challenges is the first point to shed a light on why our work matters? :) so happy that she could follow. I would say my friends love hearing about what I do, so fun hehhe. It’s like some important type of work that doesn’t exist in many educational context. Why should I appreciate my job more right?
Step 1000 steps back to see why I am here in the first place, and the new light has come to me up to this point, and as things are getting into clearer shapes. I also get to learn from my colleagues, their skills and backgrounds, daily conversations exposing me to multiple perspectives and transferable knowledge. I think I could always challenge my assumptions and beliefs, as well as experience such universal emotions wherever I am. It is exactly like the ending of the book Midnight library I read, quoted in the my Thank-you blog to School of Global Studies. If I don’t enter this door, or another life, I would go through extreme happiness, doubt, loneliness, excitement, gratitude, everything of colors and tones. I should focus on doing my best in my current role. Money is never my main goal here but pushing through my comfort zone.
What can I do to add values to this uncertain world?
What can I do to first and foremost, deal with my own uncertainty?
What could I do to embrace my authentic task to serve the community around me?
Yes, I am doing it one by one, little by little. I could do it more, consistently and kindly. Keep being who I am Linh. I am on the right track. I am happy with relationships, and thinking in a long-run, I have to be more patient to see the impacts on future students. I should calm down to be able to see those particles and specks of love and positivity here and there, Linh.
The team is getting more cosy and I feel warm here. Feel like home more. And I am happy to be part of the team. Finger-cross if I can find a decent place to live, if not, I could direct my energy towards what I am granted in life. I should exercise and keep up my smiles, and journaling habit, and getting the research writeup better. And yes, like what I told P’Proud, we get to be a life-long learner here.
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