Skills Education

Move beyond “how to use AI” and rethink learning design for a world where content is readily available

AI can now generate explanations, summaries, examples, presentations, images and responses in seconds. The challenge for educators is no longer simply how to use these tools. It is understanding what readily available AI-generated content means for how we design learning.

If learners can ask AI for an explanation, generate a response to a question or produce a first draft almost instantly, we need to think differently about the role of content, the activities we ask learners to complete, how we assess learning, and where the trainer adds the greatest value.

This session explores how learning design can respond to this changing environment. Rather than focusing on particular AI tools, we’ll consider where AI changes the learning experience and where human interaction, judgement, practice, feedback and authentic application become even more important.

Through practical examples, you’ll explore ways to rethink familiar learning activities and assessments, set appropriate expectations for AI use, including ethical use and declaration, and consider the changing role of the trainer. We’ll also look at the capabilities learners increasingly need to work effectively, critically and responsibly alongside AI.

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Identify how readily available AI-generated content is changing learning design
• Rethink learning activities to focus more strongly on thinking, practice and application
• Make deliberate choices about appropriate AI use, transparency and evidence of learning
• Identify capabilities learners need to work critically and responsibly with AI

Participants will receive a complimentary copy of “Designing Learning in an AI-Enabled World”:

• A concise practical guide for reviewing learning activities and assessment in light of generative AI. It includes prompts to help trainers consider what learners need to know, think, do and demonstrate, where AI might support or shortcut the learning process, how its use should be guided or declared, and where human judgement, interaction and authentic application matter most.

Other value options for registration:

Register for this session as a one-off standalone PD purchase OR via one of:

An Education Matters Elite membership

A PD MAX 2027 ticket