Week 1 Welcome & Introductions

Hi everyone,

My name is Fabienne and I live in Zurich, Switzerland. I have worked as an instructional designer and educator at MeteoSwiss, our national meteorological office, for the past six years. My role involves educating and training all our meteorological staff, which includes planning, developing, delivering and tracking training activities.

In addition, I am an instructional designer for EUMETCAL, a European programme that aims to maximise collaboration between meteorological offices across Europe. In this role, I mainly develop training materials, organise hackathons, train trainers, and act as the main point of contact for all training-related matters.

I use Storyline and Rise on a daily basis, and I am also quite experienced with AI integration. However, I would still like to develop my AI skills further and hope to learn some nice tricks and hacks from you.

I don't have a pet (only the occasional unwelcome spider or wasp😉) but I have plenty of bikes and skis that keep me busy.😄

Hello everyone! I'm Aakriti, I'm located in Delhi, India. I am currently working as an Instructional Designer with Optum (a UnitedHealth Group company). I'm fairly new to the Instructional Design world but I'm learning a lot through my projects here. 

I'm super excited to learn more about the about the world of ID, designing learning and training through the cohort and the activities. 

Hi everyone! I'm Eunice Christina, and I'm currently based in Bangalore, India.

I work in Learning Content Design and Development, where I design engaging learning experiences, create interactive eLearning content, and develop solutions that help learners build the skills they need to succeed. A big part of my role involves exploring new ways to make learning more effective, immersive, and learner-centric.

I'm excited to learn from everyone here, exchange ideas, and discover new ways to apply AI to create meaningful learning experiences.

P.S: I have no pets, but two little toddlers 👶👶

Hola!  My name is Bethany Tito and I was a manager on a T&OD team for a landscape supply company for 5 years but my family and I recently decided to take a sabbatical and we are currently living in Valencia, Spain. 

I miss my role in building in-person and on-demand training experiences and am using this time off to do some upskilling (yep, I put myself on a personal development plan) and learn best practices for utilizing AI to automate the tedious tasks (like animations and effects) involved in content creation. 

We don't have any pets but here is a picture from the City of Arts & Science- a must-do in our new home! 

Hello, I'm Diane, working as an e-learning developer at Durham County Council, UK. No pets at the moment, but I foster them. Here is a cocker spaniel puppy for your certain delight. 

Morning, I'm Hugh, based in leafy Surrey, in the UK, working for a science based company. Officially I'm an eLearning Developer. I've been using Articulate for as long as I can remember (old timer). I know I'm not using the AI tools effectively enough so that's why I joined this cohort.

Hi everyone, I'm Phoebe Wray-Sparks and I am based in Kent, England. I currently work as a Junior Courseware Developer for a software company called Smart Communications. My work involves creating both instructor-led training and e-learning for our clients.

I am joining this course to become more familiar with the AI tools that come with our license, particularly with the AI course creator and how to create effective source material that it will understand. I have been using the AI Articulate tools for around a year, so hoping to get some more advanced techniques I can use.

I may not be able to join the live sessions due to time zones (I will try!), but I thought I would introduce myself regardless.

I unfortunately do not have any fluffy friends at home but there were some ducklings born in the river local to me recently.

I'm Raghu from Bangalore, and I work as a Lead Instructional Designer at Eurofins. We mainly use the Articulate suite to develop eLearning solutions for our training needs.

I joined this program to explore the AI capabilities available in Articulate and learn how to leverage them to create more engaging and user-friendly learning experiences.

As for the fun question—no, I don't have any pets at home!

Hi everyone, I'm Freya and I'm based in London England! I work for a global insurer as talent management senior consultant and build eLearning as part of my job. I'm particularly keen to understand how I an leverage AI for efficiencies and learn some new Rise tips. No pets sadly, but I'm trying to persuade my husband that we need to get kittens.

Hey, my name is Barbs 😊 

I'm from the UK, I am an Digital Learning Content Designer for a financial company. I'm excited to expand my knowledge on AI through this course. I've enjoyed using AI in my work so far to help elevate images used within my learning!