Rate My Professor Jody Nyboer

Nyboer’s research investigates contemporary issues in design education, including design critique, feedback preferences of modern design students, online tools for remote studio learning across design disciplines, environmental influences on creative production among studio learners, the role of creativity training in higher education, and applications of artificial intelligence in design studios. She received a 2022 VPA Research and Creative Grant for “Environmental Catalysts of Creative Production Among Studio Learners Across Disciplines” ($4,995). Select publications include “ ‘Something Has Changed’ –observations of contemporary studio learners and implications for pedagogy” (2025, Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, co-authored with Tara Winters and Riham Nady Faragallah), “Different ideas, lots of ideas: A design course that enhances the creative abilities of college students” (2021, Learn X Design, co-authored with Brad Hokanson), and “Critiquing contemporary interior design students” (2024, International Journal of Technology and Design Education). Nyboer co-teaches an international MOOC on Creative Problem Solving with a University of Minnesota colleague for nearly a decade, annually mentors undergraduates via the Syracuse Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Engagement (SOURCE), and serves on the editorial board of Arts and Humanities in Higher Education.