Directory

Licensures & Certifications

• Cornell Certificate for Conflict Resolution

Professional Activities

• President, Association of Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) 2021-22
• Educational Technology Research & Development (ETRD) editorial board
• Tech Trends reviewer, E-Learn Magazine, former EIC, currently on editorial board
• Journal of Research on Technology in Education (JRTE) editorial board
• Quality Matters, K-12 Strategy Committee
• Rural Schools Multi-State Initiative, Advisory Board
• The National Athletic and Professional Success Academy, Advisory Board.

Professional Memberships

• Association of Educational Communications and Technology (AECT)
• Council of Academic Deans from Research Institutions (CADREI)
• American Association of Educational Research (AERA)

Grants

• Learning with Technology: Doceo Center, Ali Carr-Chellman, PI, 2017-2020. $3,047,408.00
• Idaho Building Capacity Project, Ali Carr-Chellman, PI, 2017-2020. $2,403,094.

Awards & Honors

• Jonassen Award for Outstanding Research  
• Outstanding Book Award (2017), Design & Development. For Carr-Chellman, A.A., Rowland, G.  (Eds.), (2017). Classic Dialogues: Exploring the Field of Educational Technology.  Routledge.
• 2015 Association of Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) Research and Theory Division Outstanding Book Award for Instructional Design for Teachers.
• 2014 Association of Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) Distinguished Development Award for work in applications of gaming and Instructional Design to classrooms as leverage points to systemically transform schools. 
• James W. Brown Publication Award for Instructional-design theory, vol. III:  Building a common knowledge base. (2009) Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.  
• Winner AERA SIG for Systems Thinking in Education “Outstanding Publication Award for Established Scholar.” For book chapter, Creating Shared Visions of the Future for K-12 Education.

Research Interests

• Gender and gaming
• Technology impact on learning
• Learning sciences
• Educational technology
• Innovation and change
• E-learning
• Instructional design
• Systemic thinking
• Negentropy

Research Briefs

• Negentropy and Systems Theory for Organizational Change (video)

Selected Recent Publications

Books:

• Carr-Chellman, A.A., Rowland, G. (Eds.), (2017).  Classic Dialogues: Exploring the Field of Educational Technology. 
• Carr-Chellman, A.A. (2016). Instructional Design for Teachers ID4T:  Improving Classroom Practice, 2^nd.  Routledge.
• Carr-Chellman, A.A. (2010). Instructional Design for Teachers ID4T:  Improving Classroom Practice. 
• Reigeluth, C.M. & Carr-Chellman, A.A. (Eds.) (2009). Instructional-design theory, vol. III: Building a common knowledge base.  Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Translated into Chinese 2018.
• Carr-Chellman, A.A. (2006). User-Design.  Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• Carr-Chellman, A. A. (Ed.). (2005). Global Perspectives on E-learning:  Rhetoric and Reality. Sage Publications.

Refereed Journal Articles:

• MacAvoy, J.P., Freeman, S. Jr., Carr-Chellman, A.A., Kitchell, A. (2021). Perceptions versus reality: First year/early career faculty expectations and experiences through the lens of negentropy. International Journal of Leadership in Education. DOI: 1080/13603124.2021.1882703
• Carr-Chellman, A.A. (2021). Too much Trojan technology. Tech Trends, 64, 811. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11528-020-00550-z
• Carr-Chellman, A. & Russo, C.J. (2020). “Virtual Liabilities: Transforming Crisis Online Learning to Robust Online Learning.”School Business Affairs,  86, No. 7, 38-40.

• Carr-Chellman, A.A., Freeman, S., & Kitchel, A. (2020). Negentropy: Systems theory and chaos for university leadership and management. Journal of Higher Education Management, 35 (2), 5-12.
• Carr-Chellman, A.A., Kitchel, A., & Freeman, S. (2020). Negentropy: Energy creating tools for organizational development. Tech Trends, 64 (2), 275-179.
• Carr-Chellman, A.A., Raney, T., Campbell, D. (2020). Gem state inequalities: Examining the recent history of Idaho public school funding through Kozol’s lens. Journal of Education Finance, 45 (4), 407-426.
• Carr-Chellman, D.J., & Carr-Chellman, A.A. (2020). Integrating systems: The history of systems from von Bertalanffy to profound learning.  Tech Trends. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-020-00540-1
• Carr, A.A., Raney, T., Campbell, D. (2019). Rural funding inequities: The case of Idaho’s public schools. Kappan Online. Retrieved from: https://www.kappanonline.org/rural-schools-funding-inequity-idaho-public-schools-carr-chellman-campbell-raney/
• Carr-Chellman, A.A. (2019). Games to learn: An update from 2010. Issues and Trends in Educational Technology (ITET), 7 (1), 34-44.
• Engerman, J.A., MacAllan, M. & Carr-Chellman, A.A. (2019).  Understanding learning in video games: A phenomenological approach to unpacking boy cultures in virtual worlds. Education and Information Technologies (EIT). 1-17. DOI: 10.1007/s10639-019-09930-2.
• Gregg, A., Bergg, P., Carr-Chellman, A.A. (2019).  Changing the narrative: New directions in online retention. e-Learn Magazine. Retrieved from: https://elearnmag.acm.org/featured.cfm?aid=3313876 
• Scroth, S., Tang, H., AlQahtani, M. and Carr-Chellman, A. (2019). An exploratory study of Osmo tangram and tangram manipulative in an elementary mathematics classroom.  Journal of Educational Technology Development and Exchange (JETDE) 11 (1), 1-11.
• Carr-Chellman, A.A. (2018). Going to school doesn’t qualify: The uses of education experts in mass media reporting through the lens of the DeVos hearings. EJournal of Education Policy. Fall 2018. Retrieved from: https://in.nau.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/135/2019/01/Carr-Chellman.pdf
• Engerman, J.A., MacAllan, M, & Carr-Chellman, A.A. (2018).  Games for boys: A qualitative study of experiences with commercial off the shelf gaming.  Educational Technology Research and Development, 66 (2), 313-339.

Popular Press/Non-refereed Publications

• Carr-Chellman, A.A. (2021). On the growing curve: An interview on gaming to learn with G2A’s CEO, Bartosz Skwarczek. E-learn Magazine, (May). Available: https://elearnmag.acm.org/archive.cfm?aid=3466614
• Carr-Chellman, A.A. (2021). Emergency Use Online Learning: What just happened to us? Times Higher Education (New York Times).
• Dousay, T.A., Wetcho, S., Muljana, P.S., Arslan, O., Digges, E.H., Peacock, R., & Carr-Chellman, A.A. (2021). Hybrid or Virtual Conferencing, that is the question. Tech Trends, 65 (4). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-021-00613-9 .
• Carr-Chellman, A.A. (2021). A concept from Physics called negentropy could help your life run smoother. The Conversation (March 12, 2021). https://theconversation.com/a-concept-from-physics-called-negentropy-could-help-your-life-run-smoother-155030
• Carr-Chellman,A.A., Dixon, R. (2020). Book Review of Vision and Action: Reinventing schools through personalized competency-based education. Tech Trends, (64), 545-546.
• Carr-Chellman, A.A., Kitchel, A., Freeman, Jr. S., Gauert, S. (2020). Why picking up your socks isn’t enough…Or how negentropy could save the university. Profound Living. https://www.profoundliving.live/why-picking-up-your-socks-isnt-enough-or-how-negentropy-could-save-the-university. 
• Carr-Chellman, A.A., Freeman, S., Kitchel, A. (2019). Leadership for Negentropic online enterprise. Revista Espanola de Pedagogia. (Spain) 

Selected Presentations

TED Talk: Bring Back the Boys: Gaming to Re-engage boys in their own learning.  Global January 2011. More than 1,000,000 views.