Kudos: Stefaniak wins outstanding theoretical journal award

Jill Stefaniak, an associate professor in learning, design, and technology in the Department of Workforce Education and Instructional Technology, won the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) Research and Theory Division’s 2025 Outstanding Theoretical Journal Article Award for the paper she co-authored with Stephanie Moore (University of New Mexico) titled “The Use of Generative AI to Support Inclusivity and Design Deliberation for Online Instruction.”

The paper was published in Online Learning Journal, the official journal of the Online Learning Consortium.