{"id":554,"date":"2025-03-13T21:03:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T04:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/otessa.org\/2025\/?page_id=554"},"modified":"2026-04-13T15:12:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T22:12:41","slug":"santa-fe","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/otessa.org\/2025\/santa-fe\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Fe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Share, Connect, Collaborate, and Renew<\/span><\/h2>\n

OTESSA25 in Santa Fe, NM, is a scholarly colloquium fostering interdisciplinary dialogue in educational technology and instructional design. Using the World Caf\u00e9 model, the event will promote idea sharing and collaborative problem-solving.<\/p>\n

We invite proposals addressing Grand Challenges in research, design, and policy, focusing on global educational issues such as learner stress, promoting democratic ideals, accessibility, and equity. Submissions should critically frame problems, explore the role of instructional design and technology (IDT) in addressing issues, and align with international frameworks like UNESCO\u2019s Sustainable Development Goals.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Our Approach – The World Caf\u00e9<\/span><\/h2>\n

The World Caf\u00e9 methodology is a flexible and structured approach to facilitating large-group dialogue, guided by seven integrated design principles. It creates a welcoming, caf\u00e9-style environment where small groups engage in multiple rounds of discussion, rotating tables on a set schedule to encourage diverse perspectives. A host introduces the process, setting the context and etiquette, while carefully crafted questions guide conversations. Insights from these discussions are shared collectively so all participants can learn from the collective wisdom of all. This process includes developing and workshopping possible publications towards a special issue in the OTESSA Journal. See the full call for proposals<\/a> for details on the process and the deadline for a ~2,500 draft to be shared with other participants. We will provide more details upon acceptance of proposals.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Santa Fe, New Mexico, the oldest capital city in the U.S., is renowned for its rich cultural heritage, adobe architecture, and vibrant arts scene. Nestled in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, it blends Indigenous, Hispanic, and Anglo influences. The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, located on Museum Hill, is a premier institution dedicated to Native American history, art, and traditions. It features extensive collections of pottery, textiles, and jewelry, alongside contemporary Indigenous works. Through exhibitions, research, and education, the museum preserves and celebrates Native cultures, offering visitors a deeper understanding of the region\u2019s diverse and enduring Indigenous heritage.<\/p>\n

Santa Fe and the surrounding areas are also home to hiking and biking trails, national parks, and welcoming day spas (like Ojo Santa Fe<\/a>).<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Thomas (Tom) C. Reeves, PhD is Professor Emeritus in the College of Education at The University of Georgia. He was a Fulbright Lecturer in Peru and has given invited presentations in the USA and more than 30 other countries. He is the former editor of the Journal of Interactive Learning Research, and the author of nearly 200 scholarly papers. His co-authored books include Interactive Learning Systems Evaluation, A Guide to Authentic E-Learning, Conducting Educational Design Research (two editions), MOOCs and Open Education Around the World, and MOOCs and Open Education in the Global South. His research interests encompass educational technology in developing countries, educational design research, medical and public health education, and prison education. He currently lives at The Spires at Berry College in Rome, Georgia with his wife, Patricia M. Reeves, Professor Emerita of Social Work at The University of Georgia, and their two West Highland Terriers, Zipper and Button.<\/p>\n

Dr. Reeves will join OTESSA virtually to discuss themes he has published on recently such as focusing our research and practical scholarship on problems and needs instead of things or tools. His keynote helps to frame our efforts in the Santa Fe colloquium to develop a strategic framework for research focused on grand challenges related to instructional design and educational technologies.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Reframing Togetherness:\u00a0Shifting our focus from technology to problems<\/h1>\n

Keeping in mind the overall theme of \u201cReframing Togetherness,\u201d this presentation will emphasize the need to change the focus of our research in educational technology from \u201cthings\u201d such as Generative AI or Virtual Reality to serious problems such as educational inequity or absenteeism. Unfortunately, much of our research continues to be focused on things rather than problems. Today, I will present an updated and more urgent perspective on this issue. I will recommend three important directions for research in our field.\u00a0<\/p>\n

1. We must conduct research in ways that influence practice.<\/p>\n

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Professor, Graphic Design<\/strong><\/p>

Design Graduate Program Director<\/strong><\/p>

Mertie Buckman Professor of Design<\/strong><\/p>

College of Design<\/a><\/strong><\/p>

University of Minnesota<\/strong><\/p>

Brad Hokanson is Emeritus Professor of Design at the University of Minnesota. He has a diverse academic record, including degrees in art (Carleton), architecture (Minnesota), urban design (Harvard), and received his PhD in Instructional Technology from the University of Minnesota.<\/p>

He teaches in the area of creative problem solving and has published research in the fields of creativity and educational technology. He won his college’s awards for outstanding teaching in 2002 and 2008, and served as the Mertie Buckman Professor of Design Education from 2016\u20132021. His most recent book on the development of creativity is Developing Creative Thinking Skills: An Introduction for Learners<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>

He served as President of the Association of Educational Communication and Technology in 2017 and as Interim President in 2020. Visits to Buenos Aires, when possible, support his Argentine tango habit.<\/p>

He is currently working as a faculty coordinator with the University of Minnesota College in the Schools, a state funded program to allow for-credit courses to be taught in high schools by trained high school teachers. His Creative Problem Solving course is offered in four high schools, with performance comparable to his on-campus course.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Finding and approaching a problem is one of the essential skills for a designer in any field. It is not one that is organized or constrained by a recipe of steps; there is no list or dictum, but rather, it is an exploratory process guided by the beliefs, ideas, values and skill of the designer. This finding and framing of any problem is critical for “The formulation of a problem, is often more essential than its solution\u2026\u201d(Einstein and Infeld, 1938),<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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At the beginning of the digital age of education, designers began by replicating the simplest forms of teaching while straining out the more complex aspects of learning. We now have come to more favorably view the richer and more engaging aspects of the educational process. Solving challenging problems involves investigation, hypotheses, concepts, perceptions, which are all examined and tested, providing rich rewards. We seek designs with depth that advance learning and education.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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As designers, we must \u201c\u2026produce novel, unexpected solutions, tolerate uncertainty, work with incomplete information, apply imagination and constructive forethought to practical problems and use drawings and other modeling media as a means to problem solving\u201d (Cross, 1999).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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