Presenter Profile

Steve White

Session Title(s)

ALDConf 2025:

Are we missing ‘the single most important thing for teachers to know’? Cognitive Load Theory and learning development (paper)

ALDConf 2024:

Resisting ideological echo chambers: if we are all critical pedagogues, how will we know we are doing LD well? (mini-keynote)

A bluffer’s guide to academic literacies: can we communicate a complex set of ideas in simpler terms? (paper)

ALDConf 2023:

Generating threshold concepts for impactful learning development: exploring a new perspective on our work (workshop)

Why inclusive learning shouldn’t always be fun (lightning talk)

Hey you! They’re calling you Tinkerbell! What are you going to do about it? (mini-keynote)

Biography

Steve has been lurking in teaching, learning and research-related third spaces in HE for about 20 years. As examples of third space roles which span academic, professional and technical domains, he’s worked as a learning designer for online courses and MOOCs, a learning developer, and as an educational developer. His current role is a hybrid of these functions, and the reason he still bangs on about third spaces is that it was the subject of his PhD research and he can’t seem to let it go.

Last modified: 12/02/2025