The Real Role of Instructional Designers After AI

When content generation becomes fast and frictionless, do learning specialists need to be involved at all? In this episode, Matt sits down with Tim Slade, Speaker, Author and Founder of The eLearning Designer's Academy who discusses the human vs. the automated in instructional design today. Tim acknowledges that as content generation has become easier and faster, audiences are developing digital media fatigue and how as creators we can aim to overcome this. Tim emphasizes that 'the human’ exists in ensuring that what we are ‘churning out’ is the right thing to solve the problem - should we make this? Why? What changes if we do? He argues that one part of the work still can't be automated, sound judgment. The conversation also gets into how most people tend to use AI for practical reasons, and how the online discourse leads audiences to believe they are somehow ‘behind the curve’ in their AI skills. Tim dubs AI a ‘replication tool’ and discusses the issues that arise from getting carried away with the capabilities available to us. The Instructional Design Handbook by Tim Slade is available for pre-order through May 29th. Pre-orders include a hardcover signed edition with a dust jacket. 10% off when you use TECHSMITH as the coupon code. Learning points from the episode include: • 00:00 – 01:03 Intro • 01:03 – 03:13 Latest book release: The Instructional Design Handbook by Tim Slade • 03:13 – 05:55 Becoming an intentional Instructional Designer • 05:55 – 07:56 What Instructional Designers need to know for success • 07:56 – 10:55 Improving the human piece • 10:55 – 13:20 Connecting theory to practical application • 13:20 – 14:30 What can ID professionals take away from the book • 14:30 – 18:25 Why AI doesn’t fit into everything we do and content fatigue • 18:45 – 20:57 AI as a replication tool and the problems in getting carried away • 20:57 – 24:22 Practical uses of AI • 24:22 – 25:48 AI skills are having a clear vision that you can explain • 25:48 – 27:51 Book release details and where to find Tim • 27:51 – 29:15 Tim’s final take • 29:15 – 30:21 Outro Important links and mentions: • Connect with Tim:   / sladetim   • Join The eLearning Designer's Academy: https://community.elearningacademy.io... • Check out Tim’s YouTube:    / @elearningacdmy   Prefer to listen to a podcast? You can find The Visual Lounge on your favorite podcasting platform: https://the-visual-lounge.captivate.fm/