#instructionaldesign — Public Fediverse posts

On March 9th I’m helping launch AI Foundations for Educators, a 5-week online course that goes beyond workshop-level knowledge to guide teachers and school staff in developing a personalized framework for adapting classrooms to AI.

It’s a pilot module for a planned online certificate on generative AI; would count as credit toward that graduate credential. Open to anyone with a BA.

https://learnwithai.org/courses.html

#AIinEducation #OnlineLearning #EdTech #InstructionalDesign #HigherEd #K12 #GenerativeAI

Join me at the #SUNYOnlineSummit!
February 23-27, 2026 starting daily ~12pm/ET

Virtual Event/Free Registration https://bit.ly/SUNYOnlineSummit2026

All are welcome!

#OnlineTeaching #OnlineLearning #DistanceLearning #InstructionalDesign #HigherEd

Detailed research can sometimes be an impediment to classroom planning. Effective frameworks must find a balance: using language complex enough for scholars but clear enough for practitioners to guide instruction design. #InstructionalDesign #K12

Two days full of new insights ✨ Our colleagues explored effective learning design and modern learning concepts 📚🧠 Thank you to Antje Manske for the inspiring input and motivation! 🙌 #learningdesign #instructionaldesign

Zwei Tage voller neuer Erkenntnisse ✨ Unsere Kolleg*innen haben sich intensiv mit wirksamer Lerngestaltung und neuen Lernkonzepten beschäftigt 📚🧠 Danke an Antje Manske für die inspirierenden Impulse! 🙌 #learningdesign #didaktik #instructionaldesign

#Today

Join CCCOER’s From the Field series today at 3 pm EDT/12 pm PDT!

Veronica Vold will share equity-driven design from the Open Curriculum Development Project (Open Oregon Educational Resources), resulting in 12 openly licensed textbooks across key subjects. Perfect for educators exploring OER as an option.

Register: https://twp.ai/4is4vR

#OER #OpenEducation #InstructionalDesign #EquityInEd #EdTech #CCCOER #OEGlobal

#SaveTheDate Join CCCOER’s From the Field series on Oct 15 at 3 pm EDT/12 pm PDT!

Veronica Vold will share equity-driven design from the Open Curriculum Development Project (Open Oregon Educational Resources), resulting in 12 openly licensed textbooks across key subjects. Perfect for educators exploring OER as an option.

Register: https://twp.ai/4irwJh

#OER #OpenEducation #InstructionalDesign #EquityInEd #EdTech #CCCOER #OEGlobal

I was invited to do a Futures in Digital Learning Podcast with
Adam Davi and Brian Hale from the University of Arizona on #badging ecosystems.

We chatted about:
• The difference between badges and certificates
• What motivates learners to earn badges
• Designing meaning into a badging system

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1z9we8BMCBdQ4WGwnR8aWO
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/futures-in-digital-learning/id1721638775
YouTube Music: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=oiOCCm4gbI8
#InstructionalDesign #onlinelearning #digitallearning #edutoot

I have recently fallen in love with the #roguelike and #roguelite genres of #videogames.

I’m especially interested in their powerful effects on #motivation, inspiring players to try-fail-try again-succeed, which is the holy grail for #instructionaldesign and #teaching more broadly.

I’d love to hear from #gamedevs and other #learningdesign pros who have explored integrating #rogueish mechanics in #learning, #seriousgames, and/or know of any #psychology #research connecting the two. Thanks!

Did you know that #libraries are launchpads for student innovation?

Join Cyril Oberlander (Cal Poly Humboldt) on April 9th at 11 AM ET to explore:

💡 Adaptable strategies for engaging students as co-creators
📚 The power of open learning infrastructure
🌱 How students built a 3D Digital Herbarium

Free virtual MicroConf:
https://www.apereo.org/conferences/2025/04/april-2025-open-innovation-lab-library-cyril-oberlander

#EdTech #FOSS #HigherEd #OpenEducation #InstructionalDesign #LibraryScience #STEMEducation

Venturing into the Unknown: Critical Insights into Grey Areas and Pioneering Future Directions in Educational Generative AI Research | TechTrends

The latest paper I can proudly add to my list of publications,  Venturing into the Unknown: Critical Insights into Grey Areas and Pioneering Future Directions in Educational Generative AI Research has been published in the (unfortunately) closed journal TechTrends. Here’s a direct link to the paper that should hopefully bypass the paywall, if it has not been used too often.

I’m 16th of 47 coauthors, led by the truly wonderful Junhong Xiao, who is the primary orchestrator and mastermind behind it. This is a companion piece to our Manifesto for Teaching and Learning in a Time of Generative AI and it starts where the other paper left off, delving further into what we don’t know (or at least do not agree that we know) about and (taking up most of the paper) what we might do about that lack of knowledge. I think this presents a pretty useful and wide-ranging research agenda for anyone with an interest in AI and education.

Methodologically, it emerged through a collaborative writing process between a very multinational group of international researchers in open, digital, and online learning. It’s not a random sample of people who happen to know one another: the huge group represents a rich mix of (extremely) well-established and (excellent) emerging researchers from a broad set of cultural backgrounds, covering a wide range of research interests in the field. Junhong does a great job of extracting the themes and organizing all of that into a coherent narrative.

In many ways I like this paper more than its companion piece. I think this is because, though its findings are – as the title implies – less well-defined than the first, I am more closely aligned with the underlying assumptions, attitudes and values that underpin the analysis. It grapples more firmly with the wicked problems and it goes deeper into the broader, situated, human nature of the systems in which generative AI is necessarily intertwingled, skimming over the more simplistic conversations about cheating, reliability, and so on to get at some meatier but more fundamental issues that, ultimately, relate to how and why we do this education thing in the first place.

Abstract

Advocates of AI in Education (AIEd) assert that the current generation of technologies, collectively dubbed artificial intelligence, including generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), promise results that can transform our conceptions of what education looks like. Therefore, it is imperative to investigate how educators perceive GenAI and its potential use and future impact on education. Adopting the methodology of collective writing as an inquiry, this study reports on the participating educators’ perceived grey areas (i.e. issues that are unclear and/or controversial) and recommendations on future research. The grey areas reported cover decision-making on the use of GenAI, AI ethics, appropriate levels of use of GenAI in education, impact on learning and teaching, policy, data, GenAI outputs, humans in the loop and public–private partnerships. Recommended directions for future research include learning and teaching, ethical and legal implications, ownership/authorship, funding, technology, research support, AI metaphor and types of research. Each theme or subtheme is presented in the form of a statement, followed by a justification. These findings serve as a call to action to encourage a continuing debate around GenAI and to engage more educators in research. The paper concludes that unless we can ask the right questions now, we may find that, in the pursuit of greater efficiency, we have lost the very essence of what it means to educate and learn.

Reference

#AI #collectiveIntelligence #education #ethics #genAI #generativeAI #instructionalDesign #learning #teaching

Updating my pinned bio post:

Hi! Thanks for stopping by my profile. I teach history in Higher Education. My areas are #19thCentury, #USHistory, and #Aviation history.

I also create resources related to faculty development, online courses, Artificial Intelligence, and accessibility.
#EdTech, #AI, #EdDev, #a11y, #OnlineLearning, #InstructionalDesign, #CognitiveScience.

Looking forward to engaging on these topics, along with my hobbies: #PetBirds, #Birds, #Kayaking, #Nature, #Photography, #Ceramics.

@LeviKornelsen

Stuff I like, and like to talk about:

#DnD #5e, including #TalesOfTheValiant #ToV
#Pathfinder2e #PF2e
#Fate
#BladesInTheDark #ForgedInTheDark #BitD #FitD
#ShadowOfTheDemonLord #SotDL
#ResistanceSystem #SparkedByTheResistance
#Heart
#Slayers
#TrophyRPG
#Mage
#UnknownArmies
#YearZeroEngine
#Horror games
#UrbanFantasy
#GameDesign
#Worldbuilding
#Monsters
#GMAdvice
#GameMastering
#Genre
#InstructionalDesign #ISD
#LearningGames and #TeachingGames
#Maps and #Art
#DIY

If your organization has stories to share about how role-based security awareness is making a difference, others want to hear about it.

Too often, organizations miss the opportunity to provide quality security training to staff who have a common risk environment.

Attackers are focusing on roles now, so they can create more compelling pretexts for social engineering.

Soon, it won't be just gift card scams. There will be attacks targeting people like software librarians that give source code access to privileged access to remote attackers.

What ignored roles do you see that can receive value from more focused security training?

Join our live Cyber Security Awareness Forum today at 1pm EDT, where you can hear from an expert panel and learn from live audience Q&A.

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/4716891587055/WN_pPRjbM7OSJSvSKnOGgxPFQ

#csaf #cybersecurityawarenessforum #securitytraining #securityawareness #riskmanagement #securitymanagement #instructionaldesign

Been thinking it's time to update my pinned bio post, so here goes:

Hi, thanks for stopping by my profile! I teach history in Higher Education.
#USHistory, #CivilWar, #19thCentury, #Antebellum, and #Aviation and #NASA history.

I also publish and create resources related to faculty development, online courses, and accessibility.
#EdTech, #InstructionalDesign, #Accessibility, #A11y, #LongCOVID, #InvisibleDisabilities, #OnlineLearning, #Gamification, #FacultyDevelopment, #CognitiveScience, #SoTL.

I'm here to follow and engage with your posts on these topics too:
#PetBirds, #Birds, #Photography, #Hiking, #Kayaking, #Nature, #Programming, #CSS, #JavaScript, and #HTML.

Experience the #qomenius approach to learning.
Thursday 19 January: qomenius Insight. Sign up now!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/qomenius-insight-experience-a-full-qomenius-learning-session-live-tickets-468863943677

#learning #corporatelearning #colearn #elearning #LearningAndDevelopment #learningculture #learningtech #instructionaldesign #workplacelearning #edtech #highered

Next week! Sign up now and experience a full qomenius learning session. Session topic: "The #agility boosters."
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/qomenius-insight-experience-a-full-qomenius-learning-session-live-tickets-468863943677 #qomenius #corporatelearning #colearn #instructionaldesign #LearningAndDevelopment #learning #learningculture

Hi FediFriends!

Looking for fellow instructional designers, adult educators, tech educators, technical writers.

Where are y'all hanging out?

#EdTech #TechEd
#InstructionalDesign
#TechnicalWriting
#Andragogy

Great example of #UX and #InstructionalDesign here, geared very well to one of its audiences, folks with #AuditoryProcessing difficulty. Note that there is Just Enough Text.

SADLY what you're seeing in the video is apparently not captioned for ease of use with #VisualDisabilities /#ScreenReaders .

#Accessibility

https://www.loopearplugs.com/pages/start

#pedagogy #OnlineLearning #constructivism #Epistemology #DEI #badging #InstructionalDesign

#NewHere looking for interesting people to follow

@britter #instructionaldesign #facultydevelopment #DEI #badging #onlinepedagogy #creativity #YA