In the current educational landscape, we find ourselves at a critical juncture between two divergent futures. On one hand, we face an “age of digital distraction” where notifications and surface-level skimming have reduced our “cognitive patience” and capacity … Read more
Alexander Fink: Future Thinking Expert and CEO of ScMI Scenario Management International As higher education faces growing uncertainty, scenario planning offers a way to think more deliberately about the future rather than simply reacting to change as it … Read more
Johanna Pirker, Photo Copyright: Matthias Rauch, mrfoto.at Games increasingly shape how people learn, collaborate, solve problems, and experience complex systems. At EDMEDIA 2026, Johanna Pirker, Professor of computer science at the Technical University of Munich and Associate Professor … Read more
Eugene Korsunskiy is an Associate Professor of Engineering at Dartmouth College. His research interests comprise human-centered design, design ethics, creative confidence, and interdisciplinary collaboration, and he has a long-standing fascination for maker pedagogy and design thinking. At Stanford, … Read more
Image Source: Rick Payne and team / Ai is… Banner / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 Luke Hobson brings together multiple perspectives as an instructional designer, author, educator and social media influencer. His background includes industry-aligned online learning at … Read more
Jamillah Knowles & Digit / Building Corp / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 This article is a guest contribution by John Storm, who comments on the topic of AI from an entrepreneurship and business education perspective. “The topic of … Read more
Rose Willis & Kathryn Conrad / A Rising Tide Lifts All Bots / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 These days, people can hardly use the Internet without running into generative AI—yet many everyday beliefs about “how AI works” are … Read more
Generative AI has thoroughly permeated the work of instructional designers. It can be used for a wide variety of tasks such as creating a course map, scripting a case study, drafting handouts, creating visualizations, evaluating alternatives, producing audiovisual … Read more
The world’s largest refugee camp people is located in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. UNHCR and the Government of Bangladesh reported over 1.1 million Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar as of late 2025. Inhabitants face intense constraints, from overcrowding and … Read more
The starting point of the 2025 Springer publication “Developing Curriculum for Deep Thinking: The Knowledge Revival” is the observation that over time curricular trends have oscillated: at times placing knowledge at the center, and at other times emphasizing … Read more