Emergent Technologies Shaping Instructional Design

Abstract

This chapter discusses emergent technologies that are currently shaping or expected to shape the field of instructional design in the near future. The discussion begins with a brief overview of instructional design as a professional field over the past century, then focuses on current and promising trends for the field based on advances in technologies supporting instructional development. This chapter intends to provide a centralized literature review of multiple pathways currently being carved in the field, encompassing several parallel trending areas, such as adaptive learning, digital storytelling, gamification, simulation technologies, augmented and virtual reality, cybernetics, the xAPI standard, mobile and ubiquitous learning, and offer a glimpse of how they are shaping or expected to shape the future of all those involved in designing and delivering learning or effecting human behavior and performance change.

Emergent Pathways for the Future of Instructional Design

“…There are currently not many instructional design models based on the connectivist approach to learning; the 3P learning model by Chatti, Jarke, and Specht (2010) and the Multisphereverse dynamical design model proposed by Roubides (2015) are examples of models that claim a connectivist, knowledge-pull, base. The nature of theory that provides an allowance of learner autonomy and machine integration has brought about some criticisms (Kop & Hill, 2008).…”