Design for Learning- Principles, Processes, and Praxis, 2021a

Jason K. McDonald
Dr. Jason K. McDonald is an Associate Professor of Instructional
Psychology & Technology at Brigham Young University and the
program coordinator of the university’s Design Thinking minor. He
brings twenty years of experience in industry and academia, with a
career spanning a wide-variety of roles connected to instructional
design: face-to-face training; faculty development; corporate
eLearning; story development for instructional films; and
museum/exhibit design. He gained this experience as a university
instructional designer; an executive for a large, international nonprofit;
a digital product director for a publishing company; and as an
independent consultant.
Dr. McDonald's research focuses around advancing design practice
and design education. He studies design as an expression of certain
types of relationships with others and with the world, how designers
experience rich and authentic ways of being human, the contingent
and changeable nature of design, and design as a human
accomplishment (meaning how design is not a natural process but is
created by designers and so is open to continually being recreated by
designers).
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