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Systems Thinking & Change
President Elect:

Minkyoung Kim

University of West Florida


Minkyoung Kim is an assistant professor in the Department of Instructional Design and Technology at the University of West Florida.

She has earned a doctoral degree in Instructional Systems Technology from Indiana University and bachelor’s and master’s degrees in the same field at Ewha Womans University in Korea. Previously, she was employed at IBM as a senior business consultant for several years. As a senior consultant, she engaged and managed a variety of consulting projects on change and human performance improvement. She also served as an instructional designer at Texas Tech University, providing pedagogical and technology consultations for faculty members so that they can improve their online and face-to-face teaching.  

A synthesis of her practical experiences and subsequent doctoral work shaped her research agenda, which centers on systemic change and instructional design theories of the learner-centered paradigm. She developed a strong desire to be a researcher who can help lead the field of instructional design into the paradigm of learner-centered instruction. She conducted several research studies on project-based learning, which is a learner-centered approach, with an emphasis on personalized instructional support. She recently started another study focusing on competency-based personalized learning (CBPL) with several other scholars in a collaborative manner to attempt to determine the ideal nature of CBPL for different situations as well as how CBPL is currently applied in practice.

She served as an STC secretary/treasurer for 2014-2015 and has served as a division board member since 2016. With her unshakable enthusiasm in change in education and extensive professional experience, it is her sincere wish to devote herself to improving and contributing to the community of scholars. It would be her greatest pleasure to serve as a president in the AECT Systems Thinking and Change Division.


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