Alison Carr-Chellman, Ph.D.

• Ph.D. in Instructional Systems Technology, Indiana University, Bloomington
• M.S. in Instructional Design, Development and Evaluation, Syracuse University
• B.S. in Elementary Education, Syracuse University

• Cornell Certificate for Conflict Resolution

• Fulbright Specialist Roster (2025-2028)
• 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
• Cogent Education (reviewer)
• Rural Schools Multi-State Initiative, Advisory Board
• The National Athletic and Professional Success Academy, Advisory Board.

University of Idaho, College of Education, Health, & Human Sciences 2016-2020
Professor & Dean (4 years)

The Pennsylvania State University, College of Education 1994-2016
Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor
Program Chair, Instructional Systems (8 years)
Department Head, Learning & Performance Systems (6 years)

• Association of Educational Communications and Technology (AECT)
• American Association of Educational Research (AERA)
• Council of Independent Colleges: Vocation and College Athletics 2025
• Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities: Aspiring Presidents, Notre Dame 2024
• Harvard Kennedy School, Strategic Fundraising for Non-Profit Leaders, 2023
• Boston College, Institute for Administrators in Catholic Higher Education, 2023

• Upward Bound/TRIO: U.S. DOE: PI 2022-2027 $1,478,690
• Upward Bound/TRIO: U.S. DOE: PI 2020-2022 $1,176,574
• 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.

• 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.

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

• Negentropy and Systems Theory for Organizational Change (video)

SCHOLARLY IMPACT

7 books, 175+ publications, 200+ presentations including international invited, 40+ dissertations supervised.

Google Scholar metrics: Citations = 13,069, h-index = 38, i10-index = 95

Books:

• Reiser, R.A., Carr-Chellman, A.A., Dempsey, J. (Eds.), (2025). Trends and Issues in Instructional Design and Technology (fifth edition). Routledge.
• 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:

• Zhao, L., Dixon, R., Dousay, T. & Carr-Chellman, A.A. (2023). Exploring faculty perceptions of outsourced professional development for online teaching and learning. Tech Trends, 68, 268-280.
• Bogard, T. & Carr-Chellman, A.A. (2023). Translating Trauma-Responsive Schooling to Instructional Design Practice. Journal of Applied Instructional Design, 12(1).
• Zhao, L. Dousay, T., Dixon, R., & Carr-Chellman, A.A. (2022). Outsourced professional development for online instructors: Recommendations from research. E-Learn Magazine. https://elearnmag.acm.org/archive.cfm?aid=3529094
• Carr-Chellman, A.A., Kitchel, A., & Olive J. (2022). Negentropy: Principles and use in PK-12 schools. International Journal of Educational Reform, 31 (1).
• 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

• Dousay, T. A., Kitchel, A, & Carr-Chellman, A. A. (2024). The hybrid campus: ESyMS. In R. A. Reiser, A. A. Carr-Chellman, & J. E. Dempsey (Eds.), Trends and issues in instructional design and technology (5th ed.). Pearson.
• Carr-Chellman, A.A. (2024). Leaving all doors open: Career options for those studying instructional design and technology. In R. A. Reiser, A. A. Carr-Chellman, & J. E. Dempsey (Eds.), Trends and issues in instructional design and technology (5th ed.). Pearson.
• Carr-Chellman, A.A., Carr-Chellman, D.J. (2023). Approach with Caution: Why educational leaders should engage public intellectualism. Times Higher Education. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/approach-caution-why-education-faculty-should-engage-public-intellectualism
• Carr-Chellman, D.J., Carr-Chellman, A.A., Rogers-Shaw, C., Kroth, M., Brion, C. (2023). Profound learning for formative learning design & technology. In Hokanson, B., Schmidt, M., Exter, M., Tawfik, A.A., Earnshaw, Y. (eds.) Formative Design in Learning Design Thinking, growth mindset, and community. Educational Communications and Technology: Issues and Innovations. New York: Springer-Verlag, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41950-8_18
• Carr-Chellman, A. A., & Rowland, G. (2023). "A Critical and Generative History of Systems in Educational Technology". In AECT at 100. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004682580_048 pp. 648-659
• Carr-Chellman, A.A., & Bogard, T. (2023). A Trauma-informed model of instructional design. EDUCAUSE Review. https://er.educause.edu/articles/2023/5/ti-addie-a-trauma-informed-model-of-instructional-design
• Bogard, T., &Carr-Chellman, A.A. (2023). Introduction to the Special Issue. The Journal of Applied Instructional Design, 12(1). https://dx.doi.org/10.51869/121/tbac1
• Bogard, T. & Carr-Chellman, A. (2023). Conclusion: A Trauma-Informed Instructional Design. The Journal of Applied Instructional Design, 12(1). https://dx.doi.org/10.51869/121/tbac3
• Carr-Chellman, A.A. (2022). A Year of Change. Tech Trends, 66 (5), 732-734
• Carr-Chellman, A.A. (2022). Negentropy, Profundity, & Trauma-Informed Pedagogy: Three ideas to expand Instructional Design. Tech Trends, 66 (4), 564-567
• Carr-Chellman, J.F. & Carr-Chellman, A.A. (2022). The learning opportunity of our lifetimes: Here’s why we urgently need alternative assessment. Interactions AECT. Available online: https://interactions.aect.org/learning-opportunity-of-our-lifetimes/
• Carr-Chellman, A.A. (2022). Vocation as calling to professional association service: Motivations from the front lines. Tech Trends, 66 (3), 386-388
• Carr-Chellman, A.A. (2022). Transparency and trust in times of transition. Tech Trends. 66 (2), 117-119
• Carr-Chellman, A.A. (2022). What every academic leader can learn from a 1000-piece puzzle. Inside Higher Education. (January, 27). https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2022/01/27/jigsaw-puzzles-yield-academic-leadership-lessons-opinion
• Carr-Chellman, A.A. (2022). Innovating AECT. Tech Trends, 66 (1), 4-5.
• 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) 

TED Talk: Bring Back the Boys: Gaming to Re-engage boys in their own learning.  Global January 2011. More than 1,500,000 views.