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AI and the Learning Experience Design: From Divergent Creativity to Convergent Precision
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Betül Czerkawski – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2025
In the rapidly evolving landscape of higher education, we are witnessing an unprecedented surge in the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). This rapid surge necessitates a thorough exploration of how faculty members, instructional designers, and researchers adopt AI, especially GenAI, using learning design practices. The present research study…
Descriptors: Convergent Thinking, Creative Thinking, Creativity, Artificial Intelligence
Interrogating Algorithmic Bias: From Speculative Fiction to Liberatory Design
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Gaskins, Nettrice – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2023
This paper reviews algorithmic or artificial intelligence (AI) bias in education technology, especially through the lenses of speculative fiction, speculative and liberatory design. It discusses the causes of the bias and reviews literature on various ways that algorithmic/AI bias manifests in education and in communities that are underrepresented…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Bias, Artificial Intelligence, Educational Technology
Leveraging Failure-Based Learning to Support Decision-Making and Creative Risk in Instructional Design Pedagogy
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Stefaniak, Jill – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2021
Despite the call for instructional designers to employ design thinking as a means to foster creativity in problem-solving, many students struggle with enacting creative risk. While several studies have been conducted studying how instructional designers engage in problem-solving to contend with project constraints, few have addressed whether this…
Descriptors: Creativity, Risk, Instructional Design, Problem Solving
K12 Practitioners' Perceptions of Learning from Failure, Creativity, and Systems Thinking: A Collective Case Study
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Arrington, T. Logan; Moore, Alison L.; Bagdy, Lauren M. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2021
This article presents the results of a collective case study exploring how K12 practitioners perceive the interaction of systems thinking, creativity, and learning from failure within their professional practice. In order to identify K12 practitioners who were well-versed in systems thinking, we targeted students within an instructional design and…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Case Studies, Creativity, Kindergarten
Learning, Design, and Technology in South Korea: A Report on the AECT-Korean Society for Educational Technology (KSET) Panel Discussion
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Lim, Cheolil; Ryu, Jeeheon; Martindale, Trey; Kim, Nari; Park, Sanghoon – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2019
This report synthesized a one-hour panel discussion at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) International Convention 2018 in Kansas City, Missouri, sponsored by the Korean Society for Educational Technology (KSET). The theme of the panel discussion was "New Technology, Design, and Research Approaches for…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Conferences (Gatherings), Teaching Methods, Instructional Design
The Creative Spirit of Design
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McDonald, Jason K. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2011
If instructional designers hold limited views about their practice they sometimes adopt formulaic routines that do not help them accomplish the goals they believe are important, or develop instruction of a quality envisioned by the field's innovative theorists. Fortunately, designers can avoid these unfavorable results in part by understanding and…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Creativity, Instructional Design, Instructional Effectiveness