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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Useful for E-Learning Design and Development?
Hi Friends!
I'm just curious how many of you have begun experimenting with AI tools (ChatGPT, GPT3 API, AI platforms, etc.) to refine your design and development of e-learning modules that you create in Rise and Storyline. Any good time-savers or other best practices that you're using?
Thanks!
Ash
There is already the authoring tool imc Express in which many features offered by OpenAI and deepL are integrated. It's amazing what can be done with it!!!
When will Articulate have these features available in RISE?
Hi Siegbert! That's an interesting idea! We don't have that on our Rise 360 feature roadmap, but you're welcome to submit that as a feature request.
Thank you, Sarah, for the quick reply. Is already done!
I've been experimenting with using the AI art tools--especially Midjourney since I have my own subscription (separate from work) for my personal projects. One place where I think these AI art tools are particularly useful right now is as an adjunct to stock photos.
Very often, stock photos are ALMOST what I want, but not quite. For example, I often need images of researchers. Most stock photos of people in lab coats also have stethoscopes around their necks, making them suitable for use as doctor characters, but unsuitable as research scientists. Their lab coats are often unbuttoned, which isn't ideal for safety courses aimed at researchers. And they often aren't wearing the appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) such as safety glasses.
All these problems can be fixed in Photoshop if you have the time and the skills to do it, but it is much easier and faster to use the AI tools. You can feed the stock image into the AI tool and use the text prompts to have the AI make the changes. For example, you can feed it the image of someone who is not wearing safety glasses and add the text prompt "wearing safety glasses." You'll get some options back from the AI within a minute or two.
What a great idea, Ray - I love this! I don't know how many times I've run down the rabbit hole of looking for the perfect stock image and never finding it. I've played with DALL-E but not Midjourney. Will check this out!
Is using AI to edit stock images allowed under the stock photo licenses? Is there an amount of altering that would qualify it as a new image that is not longer copyrighted?
Lee-Ann, you raise an interesting point. The answer is going to depend on the license terms under which you obtained the photo.
I am not a lawyer, but my understanding is that most stock photo companies allow you to modify (non-editorial) royalty-free images they license to you, subject to certain restrictions (e.g., not making it seem like the person in the photo is supporting a particular political position, or creating "harmful" content).
In practical terms, it would seem like it makes no real difference if I edit the photo or the AI edits the photo, but I was surprised to see that at least one large stock photo company has a clause in their license agreement specifically addressing AI use.
Unfortunately, it's written just vaguely enough that I can't quite tell what it means. It *seems* (to my untrained, non-lawyer eyes) to be saying you can't use their images to TRAIN an AI. I'm not really sure if lawyers would consider using the image in a Midjourney prompt as training the AI (I wouldn't consider it to be such a use, but I'm not a lawyer). There's also the question of whether letting the AI see it would be considered redistribution of the stock photo (something that's usually not allowed).
Taking a super-strict/restrictive stance that disallows any use of stock photos with AI tools would ultimately be counterproductive to the stock photo companies, in my opinion. What would happen is that this would create an incentive to just use the AI tools without the stock photo input. Once the AI tools are capable enough that we can get the specific image we want for our use case from the AI, why would we need the stock photo company at all? But this very fear is likely to cause overreaction from the stock photo companies and an attempt to maintain the status quo by disallowing AI use in the short term.
There is also an understandable fear among photographers and artists that supply photos, illustrations, vector drawings, and other images to the stock photo companies that this source of income is under threat from AI art tools. There is a movement among artists to require AI companies to obtain the artists' permission before using any of the artists’ images to train an AI. If enough artists band together and are able to establish this as a new rule, then it will become embedded in license agreements and laws. In the meantime, stock photo companies may feel an obligation to the artists who feed images into their libraries to take stances such as “no AI use” that the artists want, even if in the long term, such a stance is counterproductive to the company.
All of which is just a long-winded way of saying that it's going to be interesting times for a while until all this settles out.
Hi, I have an idea how you can implement AI the way that all global elearning teams will love you ;-) it is about creating courses in different language versions , or at least a course with closed captions in a few languages. That would help a lot!
I ran across this video where Devin Peck shows how to use a ChatBot in Storyline. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_vuNEC1K4U
I have not, but interested.
Yes - a few things when using ChatGPT. 1. Be specific in your request. No need for simple Google phrases. You can add multiple variables in your request. For instance, I can say write an introduction to this course and give the objectives and it will produce a result. I can also ask it to do the same but add "make it exciting so that teams will want to join this session and add a joke about training to lighten the mood" This is a bad example, but you can see the limits are largely in our own minds! Also, try several prompts and analyze the various results. You may want to combine responses.
Hey Ashley! I have been trying out ChatGPT for all sort of things, from personal (writing poems and stories with the kids) to professional (scripts, quiz questions, and more). I recently wrote a post describing some best practices I discovered and some ways this might be used as a starting point for L&D development. And, similar to what Mike shared above, the limits only go as far as our own minds. I encourage you to play around with the tool and see what it can do.
Thanks for your comments! Yeah, I'm finding it has several great uses. With the right prompt input, it can generate some surprisingly nuanced content. It's especially good at helping to generate variants of multiple-choice questions for test. Particularly useful too when I get stuck with scenario/story building. This really amplifies the effort when a SME I'm working with can't be available but for a limited window. I get the high-level outline and must have content from the SME, then can have AI "fill - in" any content where I get stuck. To be honest with all the prompting and fine-tuning I sometimes have to do, I find that the process gets my thinking "unstuck" and I just start to generate all the original content on my own.
I'm really intrigued to see what the Articulate team might do to incorporate it one day. Could an embeddable widget of some kind be developed where I can train the AI on content and context and then have it play the part of another person in a truly interactive training scenario ? (I'm in the healthcare space so thinking practice patients for new providers). Could it be trained to help evaluate free-text essay questions?
Curious to hear what others think - please chime in!
I've used ChatGPT to write javascript for me so that events are written back to Goggle Analytics 4 as my previous code was for the version of GA that's being deactivated. It not only wrote the code but told me exactly how to implement it in the Storyline output.
It took a couple of prompts when there were mistakes but the code now works perfectly. I'm definitely considering using it for other javascript based things I might want to do in Storyline.
can you share?
Yes, Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be very useful for e-learning design and development. AI has the potential to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of e-learning by automating certain tasks and providing personalized learning experiences for each individual learner. Here are some ways AI can be applied in e-learning:
Adaptive learning: AI can analyze learners' performance data and provide personalized learning paths, resources, and feedback based on their strengths and weaknesses. This can help learners to focus on the areas where they need the most improvement.
Natural Language Processing (NLP): AI-powered chatbots and virtual assistants can interact with learners using natural language processing. This can provide a more engaging and interactive learning experience, as learners can ask questions and receive answers in real-time.
Content creation: AI can generate personalized content for learners based on their preferences, learning style, and performance data. This can save time and resources for instructors and designers, as well as provide more relevant content for learners.
Assessment and feedback: AI can analyze learners' responses to quizzes, assignments, and assessments to provide automated feedback and grading. This can save time for instructors and provide immediate feedback for learners.
Overall, AI has the potential to enhance the quality and effectiveness of e-learning by providing personalized and adaptive learning experiences. However, it's important to ensure that AI is used ethically and transparently in e-learning design and development.
Lucia, did ChatGPT write this response about how AI can be useful for e-learning design? It reads like some of the responses I've gotten. Very meta of you if so!
Great points Lucia and David, the lists seems to be a good feature request entry.
Good AI responses.
@sarah hodge, would love to be updated from time to time if and when Articulate starts adding these in the roadmap, even if little by little.
Almost all platforms are in the AI arms race now. Curious to see Articulate's next move.
Thanks all.
