10 Things to Know About AI in E-Learning #526: Challenge | Recap
🏆 Challenge of the Week
This week, your challenge is to record audio responses to the questions listed below. The questions highlight where AI is making an impact, where it still has some growing to do, and how e-learning designers are experimenting with it in their projects.
What’s got you excited? What makes you a little skeptical? How are you actually using AI in your workflow? Or maybe avoiding it altogether?
How do I share my audio recordings?
Great question. In the past, users have shared audio files in SoundCloud, Rise courses with the audio block, and even built multimedia players in Storyline.
You can record your own voice (preferred) or use the new text-to-speech voices in Rise or Storyline.
There’s no “right” length or format. Could be quick thoughts, could be a full-on rant. Just record it and share using any format you like.
Podcast Interview Questions
Here are your questions. You can answer all ten or the ones you're most passionate about. If you're short on time, pick the top 3-4 questions you like best.
- How has using AI saved you time or sparked creativity in your design work?
- If you could design the “perfect AI tool” for instructional design, what would it do?
- Do you think AI is better suited to certain types of training (compliance, technical, soft skills)? Why or why not?
- How do you explain the value of AI to leaders, clients, or stakeholders who might be skeptical?
- What are the biggest limitations of AI in instructional design today?
- How do you balance using AI for efficiency while making sure the the content is learner-focused and authentic?
- What AI skills do you want to learn in the next few years?
- How do you think AI will change the way designers, SMEs, and learners work together?
- What’s one realistic way you think AI will reshape instructional design?
- What's one piece of advice you'd give to other instructional designers about using with AI in their work?
🧰 Resources
I’ve shared a few podcast challenges over the years and they've always been my favorites. Hearing the voices of the people you work with adds a layer of authenticity you can't get from reading.
- E-Learning Interviews with the Articulate Community #39
- Here's How E-Learning Designers Get Things Done #67
- E-Learning Podcasts: Audio Interviews with Course Designers #266
- E-Learning Podcasts: Audio Interviews with Course Designers #364
✨ Share Your E-Learning Work
- Comments: Share your examples directly to the recap page.
- Social media: Please share your examples on LinkedIn and mention both David & Articulate using the #ElearningChallenge tags so we can help promote your work.
- Support your peers: With the new submission format, you can comment directly on each example. Try leaving helpful feedback on at least three projects this week.
- Community forums: Feel free to cross-post in the forums to give your work even more visibility.
🙌 Last Week’s Challenge:
Before you record your thoughts on AI, take a look at last week’s code block challenge to see how others are vibe coding Rise beyond the defaults:
Using the Code Block in Rise #525: Challenge | Recap
đź‘‹ New to the E-Learning Challenges?
The weekly e-learning challenges are ongoing opportunities to learn, share, and build your e-learning portfolios. You can jump into any or all of the previous challenges anytime you want. I’ll update the recap posts to include your demos.
Learn more about the challenges in this Q&A post and why and how to participate in this helpful article.
📆 Upcoming E-Learning Challenges & Supporting Webinars
- Challenge #527 (Oct 10): Share Your E-Learning Portfolios
- Challenge #528 (Oct 17): Office Exploration. Tom's hosting a live webinar on building interactive office activities on October 14.
- Challenge #529 (Oct 24): Annual (sort of) Halloween themed challenge
- Challenge #530 (Oct 31): Interactive Video Quizzes and Scenarios
- Challenge #531 (Nov 07): Navigating airport security
