Learning, Design, and Adult Education

Learning, Design, and Adult Education

We improve human learning and performance in diverse contexts

We prepare practitioners and researchers to design and build tools, processes, and systems for use in various instructional and non-instructional settings.

As an LDAE student you’ll work closely with faculty to analyze learning environments, design instruction, evaluate the effectiveness of different strategies for learning, and research a variety of technologies to enhance learning and performance

Our research crosses disciplines and incorporates theories of instructional design, use of emerging digital technologies to support learning, and workplace learning and performance improvement.

Our alumni hold key roles in governmental, corporate, educational and military organizations.

Careers

A degree in Learning, Design, and Adult Education has applications not just in educational settings, but in corporations, government, military, and nonprofit organizations. As a graduate, you’ll be prepared to solve instructional problems and to tackle human performance issues, from training factory workers to use new equipment to developing a change management plan for introducing new management practices in a global company.

Some career options include:

  • E-learning developer
  • Instructional designer
  • Corporate trainer
  • Researcher
  • Professor
  • Education content developer
  • School or university administrator

Our Faculty

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Professor

Academic Program(s):
Instructional Systems Technology
Research Area(s):
Self-directed online learning, open education, MOOCs, e-learning, blended learning, distance education, informal learning, motivation, emerging learning technologies, collaborative writing technology
Email:
cjbonk@iu.edu
Phone:
(812) 856-8353
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Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor

Email:
sdrumm@iu.edu
Phone:
(812) 856-8457
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Assistant Professor

Academic Program(s):
Learning Sciences
Research Area(s):
Critical and participatory qualitative approaches and methods, informal learning environments, out-of-school STEM, science centers and museums, the maker movement, participatory community design, RPPs
Email:
daygr@iu.edu
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Professor, Faculty Fellow in Global and International Engagement, IU ASEAN Gateway Academic Director

Academic Program(s):
Adult Education; Instructional Systems Technology
Research Area(s):
Culturally- and Linguistically-Inclusive Online Instruction and Professional Development; In-person and Online Professional Development Program Designs
Email:
fpawan@indiana.edu
Phone:
(812) 856-8274

Affiliated Faculty

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Associate Professor of History; Co-Director of the Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities

Academic Program(s):
Learning Sciences
Email:
craigkl@indiana.edu
Phone:
(812) 856-5721

Contact Us

Department Administrator

Vicky Lewis
istdept@iu.edu
(812) 856-8450

Department Chair

Gamze Ozogul
gozogul@iu.edu
(812) 856-8281