Design and Development's Description

Design and Development is comprised of AECT members who are interested in promoting quality teaching and learning through the application of instructional design competencies to design effective learning experiences, develop instructional materials and environments, evaluate the adequacy and impact of instruction, assess learning gain, and manage instructional projects and research. We are particularly interested in proposals that are the results of empirical research, that focus on a theory or concept, and/or that focus on the practice of instructional design and development.  We have accepted proposals in the following three areas:

Practice Proposals: Proposals reporting on the practice of instructional design and development should describe effective practice in innovative instructional designs, effective instructional tools, new instructional development approaches, and are the results of design-based or development research efforts investigating instructional design approaches or interventions.

Research Proposals: Qualitative, quantitative, or mixed method empirical studies should describe completed research that involved the collection of data or meta-analyses describing theories unaccompanied by data and other non-data-based papers.

Theory/Concept Proposals: Must address a theoretical construct, analysis of related research, and original recommendations for future research and/or development.

For questions regarding proposals for Design and Development please contact Brian Beatty at bjbeatty@sfsu.edu.