Explore I2IDL’s glossary of digital learning terms, including learning engineering, xAPI, interoperability, learning analytics, learning science, and more.

I’ve been writing about genAI and education for a few years now, and my thoughts have evolved somewhat. This post is a quick, non-comprehensive summary of roughly what I think about the subje…

A conversation about the three psychological needs that lead to motivation and how managers and organizations can support these needs at work.

Follow these five principles to keep branching scenarios focused on real decision practice.

Artificial intelligence has wormed its way into almost every aspect of college operations, from admissions and hiring to teaching and learning. The technology may have the power to revolutionize…

A novelist lost two million dollars because nobody could show how his book was written. Your record takes twenty minutes.

Sophie and Kristen talk with Melissa Vito and Bethany Simunich about the 2026 CHLOE Conversation Report Series and the growing influence of online learning in higher education.

The question risks undermining confidence in academic expertise.

Colleges are going all in on artificial intelligence. But it could be a long time before independent research emerges on how it should—or shouldn’t—be used to improve learning outcomes.

The article discusses two crucial questions regarding AI: whether its use is appropriate and if it effectively engages one’s intellect. While these questions seem straightforward, their implication…

Are you doing these things – if not you should be! Digital technology has a real environmental impact. Technology requires electricity which relies on data centres, networks and hardware that consu…

Bad e-learning design decisions can be reversed. Here's how.

The way to stop cheating is to worry less about cheating and more about learning.

AI has broken the economic bargain behind the web, and everybody is losing.

tl;dr: Before you redesign your assessments, update your learning outcomes. Since at least Mager’s work in the early 1960s, instructional designers have recognized that learning outcomes should…

The case against tricking students into revealing their use of AI.

If the “mere overlap of sentences” is okay, what’s next?

Results of the 20th Annual and Final Survey published on 7 September 2026

Students say AI-assisted classes feel less interesting, less enjoyable and less important

Graduate employment is being reshaped by AI. For Simon Brookes, this means thinking about whether courses still lead to the careers they once promised Graduate employment is being reshaped by AI. For…

We need to know what tools are being marketed to our students.

This article explores the rise of 'AI;DR' as readers reject AI-generated content, impacting trust in writing and communication in the digital age.

Large language model-based AI is increasingly integrated into daily life, making it challenging for critics to highlight its limitations. As technology becomes user-friendly, the inner workings are…

ChatGPT is designated a search engine under the EU executive’s decision.

Creative Commons makes the case there are reasons to be optimistic that AI systems can credit their sources.

Who is ed-tech for? The marketing copy -- whether on websites or in PowerPoint or in TED Talks and the like -- will all insist that ed-tech is, at the end of the day, for "the students." Even the…

Big Tech has gotten them addicted to cheating, and they’ve internalized the blame.

AI is now commonplace in our homes and everyday lives, but there are trust issues over how government agencies will deploy the technology

Substack now scans your posts for AI with a tool called Pangram. It scored this one 100% AI, then 100% human.

It fabricates facts, sounds generic, agrees with everything, deskills you, and wastes the time it saves. So how can you use it effectively?

The future may increasingly belong to people who can combine technical competence with human insight

Learning analytics dashboards and metrics are an increasing presence in higher education. We talk to Hannes Hautz (University of Innsbruck) about his research on students’ mixed reactions to learning…

Universities are panicking about AI, but the real question is whether traditional essays ever measured genuine critical thinking in the first place.

We don’t have to despair when there are clear alternatives.

This article discusses the reality of AI hallucinations in chatbots, why they occur, and how to mitigate their impact. Understanding AI's limitations is crucial.

A new dictionary for a technology we keep describing with borrowed words.

One of the phrases I hear most often when discussing (digital) learning is that we need to make our content “more engaging” or “more exciting”. It appears in project specifi…

Rampant technology considered both essential knowledge and an employability threat, survey finds

Embrace it or reject it, the tool is forcing faculty to change the way they teach.

Given AI’s ubiquity in the workplace, some believe that students should now be assessed on their aptitude in working with it. But others insist employers are still more interested in innate ability –…

Part 2 of some collected thoughts at the end of academic year 4 of GenAI...

To protect graduate employment, universities must explicitly teach and assess the skills that AI still can’t replicate, says Boxi Yang

The absence of desirable difficulty in AI interactions effectively ignores the biology of human learning.

Part 1 of piecing a few things togther...

i’ve been playing around with this model for a while now, and i thought I might write it up and see what people have to say about it. I don’t deny that artificial intelligence, in whatever brand you…

The booing kicked off before Gloria Caulfield could finish her sentence. At the University of Central Florida’s College of Arts and Humanities graduation on May 8th, real estate exec Caulfiel…

Article examines when to tap prototyping for instructional design and best practices for creating ID prototypes.

Embedding AI literacy early ensures every student gains essential understanding of systems, ethics and responsible use, closing gaps left by optional or uneven provision. Learn how

This is going to be a really funny post, because if you’ve spoken to me lately, I’m really angry about AI these days. It’s not anything new, per se. I mean my attitude has been li…