You would be hard pressed NOT to have heard of Open AI’s ChatGPT by now. It has taken the world by storm (especially the education sector). How will ChatGPT affect Learning Design?
What can it do? How will it change things? Will we still have a job? Is this really where we want humans to go? Is this TOO much tech progress?
All these questions are valid. However, the truth is that it’s here and it is here to stay. Just like every other ‘game changing’ technology of the past.
Last week Bianca Raby filmed a video for her YouTube channel aimed at Teachers and the positives that I see coming from ChatGPT making access to sophisticated AI mainstream. Don’t be fooled, AI isn’t new. It’s just that now we can all access it freely.
Check out the video here:
Here is the response that ChatGPT gave us to this question:
Honestly, not super insightful… nor practical. It’s answer doesn’t really take into consideration the people behind learning designs so it’s an impersonal and out of context response. It can also tend to repeat itself.
So, let us prove why we still need a human to communicate complex things!
Here are the top areas I see AI making the biggest impact on Learning Design (considering the people behind the designs and what AI will enable them to do also).
Remember when the internet came along we thought we would no longer need to learn anything as Google has the answer? Well, ChatGPT is really just a super pimped up Google. It still has its limitations and just like “watching a talk” doesn’t translate into learning unless something is applied. The same will go for asking ChatGPT a question. You can read the answer but it won’t mean you have cognitively progressed in the direction of a set learning outcome.
Like all the tools that have come before us with the claim to make our lives easier, better or more exciting AI will need to be used correctly. As for Learning Designers and the experiences that they design – well again it will be about HOW they embed this into their daily workflow and final products. Learning Design is still a relatively new idea to some organisations so let us use AI to ‘raise the bar’ across the board!