AI for Instructional Designers

Artificial Intelligence is changing how learning is designed, developed, reviewed, and delivered. Yet the most important skill remains unchanged: instructional judgment.

This course is designed for experienced instructional designers, learning consultants, freelancers, and corporate L&D professionals who want to integrate AI into their workflows without sacrificing quality, credibility, or learning effectiveness.

Rather than focusing on prompts and tools alone, this course explores where AI genuinely helps, where it poses risks, and how experienced designers can use it strategically in real-world project conditions.

What You'll Learn

Lesson 1: AI on the Job: Your Brain Is Still the Boss
Understand why AI is an assistant—not a replacement—for instructional judgment and decision-making.

Lesson 2: AI in Instructional Design: Don't Automate Nonsense
Learn where AI accelerates design work and where automation can quietly damage learning quality.

Lesson 3: AI in Media Production: Avoiding the Corporate Netflix Trap
Discover how to use AI-generated media responsibly without confusing visual polish for learning effectiveness.

Lesson 4: Crafting Engaging AI Simulations Beyond Generic Content
Create richer scenarios, branching activities, and learning experiences that move beyond AI-generated clichés.

Lesson 5: Don't Trust the Robots: Creating Authentic Assessments with AI
Use AI to support assessment design while maintaining validity, credibility, and meaningful evaluation.

Lesson 6: Navigating AI in Instructional Design: Politics, Credibility, and Strategy
Explore stakeholder expectations, organizational realities, and the human dynamics AI cannot solve.

Lesson 7: Don't Just Show the Pretty Thing: A Guide to Process-Driven Portfolios
Learn how to showcase your thinking, design decisions, and business impact—not just polished deliverables.

By the end of this course, you will have a practical framework for using AI across instructional design, proposal writing, project management, presentations, assessments, simulations, and learning production workflows—while keeping the one thing that matters most firmly under human control: Judgment.