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What its Like...

In this chapter you have learned about positions in higher education for instructional designers.  As you may have noticed it appears that the higher you are promoted in the administration system of higher education, the less opportunity you may have to focus on your desired area of study.  While this may seem to be a negative reward for those who pursue increased responsibility, impact, respect, or income in the field; there is a benefit to the educational community.

This benefit is that you, as instructional designer, may be in a better position to effect positive change.  One of the common problems noted with policy and reform in education, is that these changes typically come from people without experience in the systematic change process.  These policies or reforms tend to focus on educational content or products, with little regard to improving a process.  As an instructional designer in higher education you would recognize that the systematic change process takes a host of variables into account in order to come to a logical, sustainable, and measurable reform or policy.