Framing Generative AI in Education with the GenAI Intent and Orientation Model
The proposed model seeks to assist instructors and learners with a framing lens for how GenAI might be useful in educational settings.
Dr. Aaron Bond has worked in the field of instructional technology, distance education, and professional development for more than 20 years. He has served as a corporate trainer, face-to-face classroom instructor, an online instructor, and as a secondary principal. Currently he serves as the Senior Director for Professional Development and Faculty Digital Fluency a department of Technology-enhanced Learning and Online Strategies (TLOS), a unit of the Division of IT at Virginia Tech where he actively engages faculty in a variety of professional learning communities to encourage innovative teaching and learning strategies.
He has an earned B.A. in History from Mary Baldwin College, a M.A. Interdisciplinary Studies from Fort Hayes State University, an Ed. S. Educational
Leadership and Policy Studies from the University of Virginia, and a Ph. D. from Virginia Tech in Curriculum and Instruction.
In addition to a wide variety of publications and presentations, he has published a book with Dr. Barbara Lockee entitled: “Building Virtual
Communities of Practice for Distance Educators”
The proposed model seeks to assist instructors and learners with a framing lens for how GenAI might be useful in educational settings.
Systems thinking and change strategies can be used to improve the overall functioning of a system. Because instructional designers typically use systems thinking to facilitate behavioral changes and improve institutional performance, they are uniquely positioned to be change agents at higher education institutions.
The authors of the seminal article pointing out the distinctions between emergency remote teaching and online learning at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic reflect on the past year-plus and where we are now.
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