Funded by:
 

Format:     
In-person

Location:  
Concordia University
John Molson School of Business Building (corner of rues de Maisonneuve and Guy)

Organized by:
Dr. Saul Carliner & Dr. Giuliana Cucinelli
Educational Technology Program 
Department of Education 
Concordia University

The core of our four-day event explores the past, current, and anticipated future impacts of AI in education: specifically, impacts on the design and delivery of instruction and the work of instructional designers, the primary occupation of people trained in the field of educational technology. For those unfamiliar with it, instructional design is the creation, delivery, and evaluation of educational and training materials for learners across all sectors of education.

Intended to bring together students, other faculty, and practicing instructional designers, this event would explore the impact of AI on each main activity of work of instructional design—analysis, design, development, implementation (teaching), and evaluation. 

1. The Summer Institute would start by providing participants with a background on AI technology and its growing role in education in general and instructional design in particular.
2. The Summer Institute would continue with separate in-depth explorations of the impact of AI on the five main activities of instructional design. Each of these in-depth explorations would have three parts:
   1. A summary current state of AI on that field, emerging from an integrative literature review conducted by students prior to the Summer Institute.
   2. Demonstrations of in-use and under-development applications of AI.
   3. Three follow-up group discussions: one exploring the potential impact of AI in the main work activity (like design or evaluation) on the professional practice of instructional design, the teaching of future instructional designers, and research on instructional design.  Participants choose the discussion of interest. Moderators summarize the discussions afterwards for all the participants

This three-part pattern would be repeated five times altogether: one for analysis, one for design, one for development, one for implementation (teaching), and one for evaluation.

1. One afternoon, a “festival of AI software,” which lets participants interact with many of the applications demonstrated in the sessions, provides them with hands-on opportunities so participants can assess for themselves how they might integrate some of these applications into their daily work, teaching, and research.
2. The Summer Institute would close with a broader exploration of the role of AI on instructional design.