Dwayne Wood
Educator
Dr. Dwayne Wood is an experienced educator, curriculum developer, and instructional designer with a strong foundation in military service and a deep commitment to empowering others through education. His expertise spans instructional design, workforce education, and the integration of emerging technologies in learning. His recent research explores the role of Generative AI in fostering critical thinking and human skills in educational contexts. Dr. Wood holds a master’s degree in Adult Education and a doctorate in Educational Leadership and Management from Capella University, bringing a unique blend of practical experience and academic insight to his work.
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Oct. 11, 2026
Ethical AI for Instructional Designers With Dr. Dwayne Wood
AI can generate course content in minutes, but it can also produce confident nonsense, biased visuals, and nonexistent citations. We close out our mini-series with Dr. Dwayne Wood by zooming out on how quickly AI has evolved from basic text chatbots to multimodal tools that draft e-learning, images, and more, and why that speed raises the stakes for educators and instructional designers. We break ethics down into four practical areas of concern you can use in your workflow: accuracy, privacy, i...
Guest: Dwayne Wood
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Oct. 4, 2026
AI for Faster Learning Design With Dr. Dwayne Wood
AI can make you faster, but it can also make you lazy. That tension sits at the center of Jackie's conversation with Dr. Dwayne Wood as we bring together the big ideas from our mini-series and get practical about using generative AI for innovative instructional design. We dig into rapid prototyping as one of the clearest wins: using AI to generate multiple starting points for activities, scenarios, and assessments so we can iterate quickly with stakeholders who are still figuring out what th...
Guest: Dwayne Wood
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Sept. 27, 2026
Designing for Adult Learners With Dr. Dwayne Wood
The fastest way to ruin an adult learning experience is to start with a shiny tool and hope an outcome appears later. Jackie sat down with Dr. Dwayne Wood to get back to the foundations that keep instructional design effective, especially in online and asynchronous learning where motivation, time pressure, and cognitive load can make or break engagement. We dig into adult learning principles through a practical lens: problem-based and application-based outcomes that give learners a clear end st...
Guest: Dwayne Wood
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Sept. 20, 2026
Multimodal Learning That Works With Dr. Dwayne Wood
If your learners are exhausted before they even reach the content, the problem might not be motivation. It might be the mode. Jackie welcomes Dr. Dwayne Wood back for part two of the mini-series to unpack multimodal learning for adult learners and what it really means to design with intention instead of stacking more media on top of a course. We dig into cognitive load theory and why the same concept can become easier or harder depending on how you present it. Dwayne shares concrete examples of...
Guest: Dwayne Wood
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Sept. 13, 2026
Generative AI and Curriculum Design With Dr. Dwayne Wood
Generative AI is moving from “helpful tool” to something that can quietly shape how people think, write, and learn, and that changes everything about curriculum design. I sit down with Dr. Dwayne Wood, an experienced educator and curriculum developer with a background in military instruction, to unpack what generative AI in education actually means when you care about real learning outcomes, not just faster content production. We dig into the uncomfortable middle ground between banning AI and l...
Guest: Dwayne Wood