Week 2 - Group 3 Discussion

Hi group,

Quick Link: Melissa’s Week 2 Hands on Challenge 

1. Share 3 changes you made to the Rise AI Course Draft to improve learner engagement. Why did you make those changes?

1. Added headings and subheadings using the theme colors to better organize the content. This helped break up the information, improve readability, and make it easier for learners to navigate the course.
2. Converted a lengthy section of text into a scenario and added an audio option. Since the content was somewhat lengthy, I wanted to provide a more engaging way to present it while also giving auditory learners, or learners who prefer not to read a large amount of text, another option for consuming the content.
3. Added relatable images to the process steps. The images helped make the steps more visually engaging and provided learners with a visual connection to the information instead of presenting the process as text alone.

2. Which AI feature or capability was most valuable in your workflow, and why? Did anything about it surprise you?

The entire Edit with AI feature was probably the most valuable for me. I love that I can easily take existing paragraphs and turn them into interactive activities or scenarios, shorten lengthy content, or change how the information is presented. It really is a game changer because it saves so much development time while still allowing me to customize the final result.

I also found the AI Summary and Quiz features extremely valuable. The summary is a great time-saver and adds a nice finishing touch to the course. The quiz feature was especially helpful because manually developing quiz questions and answer choices can be very time-consuming. I was surprised by how quickly AI could generate these elements and give me a solid starting point that I could then review and refine.

3. What challenges did you face when trying to get AI to produce the results you wanted?

The biggest challenge was at the beginning when I uploaded the source content and asked AI to generate the course. It created a very lengthy course, so the most challenging part was going through the content section by section and determining what to keep, shorten, reorganize, or convert into a different type of interaction.

While AI saved a lot of time in the development process, I still needed to apply instructional design principles and make decisions about how the content should be organized and presented to create the best experience for the learner.