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Day 48 / 60Week 5 · DevelopmentLesson

AI for instructional designers

Learning goal

Use AI as a design accelerator without outsourcing your judgement.

Estimated time

30 minutes · self-paced

Warm-up

What part of your process should never be automated?

Main lesson

Where AI genuinely helps

First drafts, distractor generation, rewriting objectives, summarising SME transcripts, scenario variations, accessibility checks.

  • Always give role, audience, constraint and example
  • Ask for options, then choose — do not accept the first draft
  • Verify every fact and every citation

Where it hurts

example

Needs analysis, stakeholder trust, judgement about what to cut, and anything requiring real organisational context.

Governance

Never paste confidential SME material into public tools. Check your organisation's AI policy first.

Examples from practice

  • Generating six distractors, keeping two, rewriting one.

Interactive quiz

Best AI use in an ID workflow?

Reflection

Which of your tasks would you happily hand to AI tomorrow?

Daily challenge

Use the AI tools on this page to summarise, ELI5 and generate examples for one lesson.

Portfolio task

Add an 'AI in my workflow' note to your portfolio about-page.

AI design tools

Ten assistants for this lesson

AI Mentor

Instructional design questions only

Hi! I'm your ID Mentor. Ask me anything about ai for instructional designers — or instructional design in general.