Treffer: AI for Instructional Design: Understanding Discourse and Community Trends from an Online Forum.

With the increased usage of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and tools like ChatGPT, various disciplines, including instructional design (ID), are experiencing rapid changes to organizational identity, pedagogy and practice. Thus, it is essential to understand how AI impacts the ID community and how the community reacts and adjusts to the change in practice brought in by AI‐driven initiatives and workflows. Motivated by this social premise, we explored a sample of 100 conversations focused on AI from a popular subreddit (r/instructionaldesign) to understand community perceptions, learning visions and implications for practice. Our initial exploration highlights three key themes associated with the need for expanding curriculum and training, understanding the impact of practice and the evolution of disciplinary norms. These insights spark the need to understand how the ID field is evolving, embracing, and realigning disciplinary values to appropriate the usage of AI within the practice of ID. The long‐term implications of this work include understanding the usage of online communities as forums of informal on‐demand learning and the varied sociotechnical affordances that shape and regulate community building through these online formats, ultimately impacting the sustenance and efficacy of such virtual forums of learning and professional development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]