Born of the collaborative ideation of Lev Gonick, CIO at Arizona State University, and led by ASU’s Enterprise Technology, SAB Creative and Consulting, and The StoryCenter, Opened Culture is providing strategic guidance, advocacy, and community engagement in support of the mission of this collective—to advance access and equity so that every learner gets the education they need to thrive. OEC was honored to be featured in the 2074 Guide in their spotlight on Future Scenarios: Influential Work, and is one of the leading planners of the next 100 Year Ed Tech Project Design Summit hosted at the University of Texas at San Antonio (March 19-21, 2025).
Working in partnership with faculty at The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, this research study seeks to surface ubiquitous challenges that instructional designers face in locating comprehensive support for designing their future career. From clearly and compellingly demonstrating the competencies and durable skills that employers are looking for in instructional designers to leveraging narrative practices for understanding one’s unqiue value proposition and brand identity as an ID professional, this study interrogates the ways in which generative AI might make the process of career planning a more impactful and empowering experience.
Inspired by Opened Culture’s HBCU AI Action Guides for Educators, Students, and Leaders, this series of professional development offerings was developed to provide action steps and calls to actions for educators and learners at HBCUs to harness the power of generative AI in teaching and learning contexts. With a focus on empowering the 100+ HBCUs serving over 220,000 students across the US in leading digital learning transformation for an AI-enabled world, these courses were developed for educators of differentiated roles and skill levels to complement emerging and established AI initiatives and strategic plans at the institutional, departmental, and course levels.
