Let’s look high level at where AI best assists in the eLearning project lifecycle, specifically the Successive Approximation Model.
Preparation Phase: Local AI servers are a great way to gather job performance metrics, what tools people are accessing, where skill gaps are, surveys, etc. This is a great use of AI automation. AI works here!
Iterative Design Phase: Full disclosure, last year I thought this could be an AI opportunity as the models were starting to progress. This is where course interfaces, job specific context, and the right challenges are born by human thought by those who know and do the work. This is the “human” part of our job. It needs to have stakeholder, SME, on the job learners and ID work team collaboration. It can’t be left to vibe coding and whatever AI spits out. AI does not work here!
Iterative Development Phase: At this point, we have decided how the course should function when interacted with. What is content, what is the challenge, what is the feedback, where do the branches go, what does success look like, how do we score it, what are the risks and incentives?
AI, welcome back!
I need you to create simulated AI demos, walk throughs, text to speech! Camtasia, you have incredible new AI time saving features to develop great micro chunks to go into our modules faster! Get your helmet on! Articulate AI, you are in the game, let’s go! Let’s use your AI block and building functions to quickly make content blocks where didactic information for topic set-up is ok. Maybe we can use you to speed up a case study, interactive quiz! AI works here!
Bottom Line:
Human judgment has to be invoked early. Loading a “content document” and getting a “full course” so we can have one in 30 minutes, and ten in ten days, is a recipe for mediocre disaster. As IDs, we get paid for judgment, and so do our SMEs. Use AI to speed development, to make the harder things faster. Go slower using human judgment early, so you can go faster later. That’s the recipe for using AI. You use AI, it does not use you.
Keep learning, stay curious, start your projects in first gear and stay on the road until you have a course (pun intended), we got this!
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