Using Design to Advance Learning Theory, or Using Learning Theory to Advance Design

In this article I discuss my experience being in both a learning sciences and an instructional systems technology department. I consider ‘myself both an instructional designer and a learning scientist. I am indebted to both the previous work of instructional designers and of learning scientists in that both have contributed much to my thinking and my work. More dialogue between these two fields would allow us to develop generative frameworks for understanding learning and developing artifacts and systems with greater power for transforming learning.