Value: 25%

A gentle reminder that as with all LRNT courses, you are expected to incorporate APA standards for citations, formatting, and references and to back up your writing with evidence and appropriate academic literature as necessary. You are required to pay attention to grammar and clarity and to avoid colloquialisms. References are not included in the assignment word count. Also, don’t forget the numerous resources available to you as you build your competence and fluency with APA formatting and writing style. In particular, check out the RRU APA 7 formatting checklists as well as RRU WriteAnswers where you can ask your APA questions.

Purpose

The purpose of this assignment is to critically reflect on how your understanding of instructional design, collaboration, and the role of generative AI in the context of ID has evolved through the collaborative development of your Instructional Design Field Guide. Drawing upon your experiences, course concepts, scholarly literature, and your own professional context, you will examine how the design process has influenced your thinking and how these insights might inform your future instructional design practice.

This assignment emphasizes reflective practice as an essential component of instructional design, encouraging you to critically examine your assumptions, decision-making processes, and emerging professional identity as a learning designer.

Deliverable

This assignment has one deliverable: an individual critical academic reflection of 1,500–2,000 words, formatted according to APA 7 guidelines.

You can learn more about formal academic papers from the RRU writing centre, which has many resources on types of papers, including (1) types of academic writing, (2) and writing reflective essays.

Reflection

Rather than describing what your team did, your reflection should critically examine what you learned through the experience and how your thinking has evolved. Draw connections between your experience, course concepts, scholarly literature, and your own professional context.

You may wish to organize your reflection around questions such as:

• How has your understanding of instructional design evolved through this project?
• How has your understanding of designing for different learners, contexts, or organizations changed?
• What did you learn from collaborating with others who brought different experiences and perspectives?
• What insights about teamwork will you carry into future instructional design projects?
• How has your understanding of generative AI in the context of ID evolved?
• In what ways did AI strengthen or challenge your design process?
• Where did you find that human expertise, professional judgment, or contextual knowledge remained essential?
• How might you use, or choose not to use, AI in your future instructional design practice? Why?

Your reflection should move beyond description to demonstrate thoughtful critical reflection supported by scholarly literature and examples from your own experience.

Generative AI

This assignment is intended to capture your own critical reflection, learning, and evolving professional perspectives. The ideas, analysis, connections, and conclusions presented in your reflection must represent your own thinking and writing.

You may use generative AI to support the organization and presentation of your work by:

• organizing ideas into a logical structure;
• checking grammar, spelling, punctuation, and sentence clarity; and
• improving readability while preserving your original meaning and voice.

Generative AI must not be used to generate the substantive content of your reflection, including your analysis, interpretations, examples, reflections, or conclusions. These components should be written entirely by you and should reflect your own experiences, insights, and engagement with the course.

If you use AI in any capacity, you must include an AI Use Disclaimer with your assignment submission. You remain responsible for the accuracy, originality, and scholarly integrity of all submitted work.

Submission

Submit your reflection as a Microsoft Word document to the Assignment 3 Moodle Dropbox by the assignment deadline.

As this is an individual assignment, each student must submit their own work.

Grading

This assignment will be marked according to the following rubric:

Criteria	Excellent (A+ to A)	Proficient (A- to B+)	Satisfactory (B to B-)	Unsatisfactory (F)
Critical reflection and scholarly writing	Produces an insightful, well-supported critical reflection that demonstrates significant growth in understanding instructional design, collaboration, and the use of an AI persona to inform design decisions. Effectively synthesizes personal experience, course concepts, and scholarly literature to critically examine evolving perspectives, the possibilities and limitations of AI-generated feedback, and implications for future professional practice. Writing is well organized, demonstrates a clear reflective voice, and adheres to APA 7 conventions.	Produces a clear and thoughtful critical reflection that demonstrates growth in understanding instructional design, collaboration, and the use of an AI persona. Draws appropriate connections between personal experience, course concepts, and scholarly literature while considering AI-generated feedback and identifying implications for future professional practice. Writing is well organized, communicates ideas effectively, and demonstrates generally accurate APA 7 conventions, with minor issues.	Produces a primarily descriptive reflection with limited critical analysis or integration of personal experience, course concepts, and scholarly literature. Demonstrates limited consideration of collaborative design experiences, the use and limitations of an AI persona, or implications for future professional practice. Writing requires further development in organization, clarity, scholarly communication, or APA 7 conventions.	Produces an incomplete or substantially underdeveloped reflection that demonstrates little or no critical analysis of the instructional design process, collaborative experiences, or engagement with an AI persona. Connections between personal experience, course concepts, and scholarly literature are absent or insufficiently developed. Implications for future professional practice are not meaningfully addressed. Significant deficiencies in organization, clarity, scholarly communication, or APA 7 conventions compromise the reflection’s effectiveness, or no reflection is submitted.