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Canva and Adobe are going hard with it re: the use of AI

On 10/09/2023, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, adjunct faculty, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, colleges, communications, community colleges, content development, aggregation, repositories, corporate universities / corporate training, design, digital photography, digital video, education technology, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, experimentation, faculty, graphics, higher education, homeschooling/homeschoolers, human-computer interaction (HCI), innovation, instructional design, intelligent systems, IT in HE, K-12 related, liberal arts, maker movement, multimedia, online media, photography, platforms, productivity / tips and tricks, skills, student teaching/teacher education, student-related, teachers, teaching & learning, teaching online, technologies for your home, tools, training / L&D, United States, universities, vendors, visualizing information, web design and production, by Daniel Christian

Canva’s new AI tools automate boring, labor-intensive design tasks — from theverge.com by Jess Weatherbed
Magic Studio features like Magic Switch automatically convert your designs into blogs, social media posts, emails, and more to save time on manually editing documents.

Canva launches Magic Studio, partners with Runway ML for video — from bensbites.beehiiv.com by Ben Tossell

Here are the highlights of launched features under the new Magic Studio:

  • Magic Design – Turn ideas into designs instantly with AI-generated templates.
  • Magic Switch – Transform content into different formats and languages with one click.
  • Magic Grab – Make images editable like Canva templates for easy editing.
  • Magic Expand – Use AI to expand images beyond the original frame.
  • Magic Morph – Transform text and shapes with creative effects and prompts.
  • Magic Edit – Make complex image edits using simple text prompts.
  • Magic Media – Generate professional photos, videos and artworks from text prompts.
  • Magic Animate – Add animated transitions and motion to designs instantly.
  • Magic Write – Generate draft text and summaries powered by AI.

Adobe Firefly

Meet Adobe Firefly -- Adobe is going hard with the use of AI. This is a key product along those lines.

Addendums on 10/11/23:

Adobe Releases New AI Models Aimed at Improved Graphic Design — from bloomberg.com
New version of Firefly is bigger than initial tool, Adobe says Illustrator, Express programs each get own generative tools

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Google is shutting down Jamboard

On 09/29/2023, in A/V -- audio/visual, collaboration, colleges, community colleges, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, education technology, Google, higher education, tools, training / L&D, United States, universities, by Daniel Christian

The next phase of digital whiteboarding for Google Workspace— from workspaceupdates.googleblog.com

What’s changing

In late 2024, we will wind down the Jamboard whiteboarding app as well as continue with the previously planned end of support for Google Jamboard devices. For those who are impacted by this change, we are committed to help you transition:

    • We are integrating whiteboard tools such as FigJam, Lucidspark, and Miro across Google Workspace so you can include them when collaborating in Meet, sharing content in Drive, or scheduling in Calendar.
    • …

The Teacher’s Guide for Transitioning from Jamboard to FigJam — from tommullaney.com by Tom Mullaney

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Instructional Design Careers and Freelancing Presentations [Tucker]

On 09/29/2023, in career development, corporate universities / corporate training, higher education, instructional design, K-12 related, podcasting, training / L&D, workplace, by Daniel Christian

Instructional Design Careers and Freelancing Presentations — from christytuckerlearning.com by Christy Tucker
A collection of my presentations and podcasts on instructional design careers and freelancing, including transitioning from teaching to ID.

Instructional design careers and freelancing presentations -- from Christy Tucker

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What Will Determine AI’s Impact on College Teaching? 5 Signs to Watch. [McMurtrie]

On 09/13/2023, in adjunct faculty, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, colleges, community colleges, experimentation, faculty, higher education, instructional design, learning, learning ecosystem, Learning Experience Design, liberal arts, platforms, student-related, teaching & learning, tools, training / L&D, United States, universities, vendors, vision/possibilities, by Daniel Christian

What Will Determine AI’s Impact on College Teaching? 5 Signs to Watch. — from chronicle.com by Beth McMurtrie (behind a paywall)

One of the biggest challenges to navigate now is the fact that more digital tools will come with generative AI already embedded in them, says Annette Vee, director of composition and an associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh. “It’s everywhere in professional writing.”

“We need to be fundamentally rethinking ways we teach writing, so we are thinking about integrating tools mindfully,” says Vee, who helped develop a new resource, TextGenEd, that provides guidance in this area. “The real challenge is how do we teach courses that are preparing students and that are smart about generative AI? We have very few teachers currently equipped to do that work.”

“It’s best if there are real stakes attached to the work, for example, an authentic audience the student is writing to,” he writes. “A subject on which students have both sufficient interest and knowledge in order to feel as though they can write convincingly to this audience also matters a lot.”

Also relevant/see — via Robert Gibson on LinkedIn:

Learnt.ai — Built for Learning Specialists — from learnt.ai
Harness the power of artificial intelligence to enhance your learning and development efforts with our easy-to-use platform – no technical expertise required!

Introducing Learnt.ai – a revolutionary collection of AI-powered content generation tools and AI chatbots that are specifically designed to support the common writing tasks of educationalists and learning and development professionals. Imagine being able to generate learning objectives on any topic of your choice, create engaging icebreakers and activities, write assessment questions with ease, and so much more.

Also relevant/see:

An AI and higher education panel — from aiandacademia.substack.com by Bryan Alexander
Live notes

Today I took in a webinar on AI and higher education. The American Association of Colleges and Universities hosted “The AI Revolution: Transforming Higher Education for the Workforce of Tomorrow” and I’d like to share my running notes.

Also relevant/see:

Students’ Perspectives on Using AI — from er.educause.edu by Sarah J. Buszka, Jeremy Cortez, and Isabella Meltzer

Students are using artificial intelligence tools to assist them in their academic careers. Three students share their viewpoints on the tools they use and how using these tools helps them in their coursework and prepares them for the professional world.

Also relevant/see:

Why Professors Are Polarized on AI — from insidehighered.com by Susan D’Agostino
Academics who perceive threats to education from AI band together as a survival mechanism. The resulting alliances echo divisions formed during online learning’s emergence.

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Solid idea from Brandon Busteed: “Create externship programs for faculty.”

On 09/12/2023, in adjunct faculty, business, career development, collaboration, colleges, community colleges, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, Daniel S. Christian, experimentation, faculty, higher education, professional development, training / L&D, United States, universities, by Daniel Christian

An excerpt from ‘The Magnificent Seven’ posting from Brandon Busteed on LinkedIn:

6. Create externship programs for faculty. Many college and university faculty have never worked outside of academia. Given a chance to be exposed to modern workplaces and work challenges, faculty will find innovative and creative ways to weave more work-integrated learning into their curriculum.

From DSC:
This is a great idea — thanks Brandon!

I might add another couple of thoughts here as well:

  • And/or treat your Adjunct Faculty Members much better as well!
  • And/or work with more L&D Departments at local companies (i.e., to develop closer, more beneficial/WIN-WIN collaborations).
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“A.I.’s un-learning problem” [Pastis] + numerous other items re: AI

On 09/06/2023, in 24x7x365 access, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, bots, business, corporate / business world, education technology, emerging technologies, future, platforms, productivity / tips and tricks, psychology, the downsides of how people use tech, training / L&D, United States, vendors, videoconferencing, workplace, by Daniel Christian

The Prompt #14: Your Guide to Custom Instructions — from noisemedia.ai by Alex Banks

Whilst we typically cover a single ‘prompt’ to use with ChatGPT, today we’re exploring a new feature now available to everyone: custom instructions.

You provide specific directions for ChatGPT leading to greater control of the output. It’s all about guiding the AI to get the responses you really want.

To get started:
Log into ChatGPT ? Click on your name/email bottom left corner ? select ‘Custom instructions’

Meet Zoom AI Companion, your new AI assistant! Unlock the benefits with a paid Zoom account — from blog.zoom.us by Smita Hashim

We’re excited to introduce you to AI Companion (formerly Zoom IQ), your new generative AI assistant across the Zoom platform. AI Companion empowers individuals by helping them be more productive, connect and collaborate with teammates, and improve their skills.
…
Envision being able to interact with AI Companion through a conversational interface and ask for help on a whole range of tasks, similarly to how you would with a real assistant. You’ll be able to ask it to help prepare for your upcoming meeting, get a consolidated summary of prior Zoom meetings and relevant chat threads, and even find relevant documents and tickets from connected third-party applications with your permission.

From DSC:
“You can ask AI Companion to catch you up on what you missed during a meeting in progress.”

And what if some key details were missed? Should you rely on this? I’d treat this with care/caution myself.

A.I.’s un-learning problem: Researchers say it’s virtually impossible to make an A.I. model ‘forget’ the things it learns from private user data — from fortune.com by Stephen Pastis (behind paywall)

That’s because, as it turns out, it’s nearly impossible to remove a user’s data from a trained A.I. model without resetting the model and forfeiting the extensive money and effort put into training it. To use a human analogy, once an A.I. has “seen” something, there is no easy way to tell the model to “forget” what it saw. And deleting the model entirely is also surprisingly difficult.

This represents one of the thorniest, unresolved, challenges of our incipient artificial intelligence era, alongside issues like A.I. “hallucinations” and the difficulties of explaining certain A.I. outputs. 

More companies see ChatGPT training as a hot job perk for office workers — from cnbc.com by Mikaela Cohen

Key points:

  • Workplaces filled with artificial intelligence are closer to becoming a reality, making it essential that workers know how to use generative AI.
  • Offering specific AI chatbot training to current employees could be your next best talent retention tactic.
  • 90% of business leaders see ChatGPT as a beneficial skill in job applicants, according to a report from career site Resume Builder.

OpenAI Plugs ChatGPT Into Canva to Sharpen Its Competitive Edge in AI — from decrypt.co by Jose Antonio Lanz
Now ChatGPT Plus users can “talk” to Canva directly from OpenAI’s bot, making their workflow easier.

This strategic move aims to make the process of creating visuals such as logos, banners, and more, even more simple for businesses and entrepreneurs.

This latest integration could improve the way users generate visuals by offering a streamlined and user-friendly approach to digital design.

From DSC:
This Tweet addresses a likely component of our future learning ecosystems:

Large language models aren’t people. Let’s stop testing them as if they were. — from technologyreview.com by Will Douglas Heaven
With hopes and fears about this technology running wild, it’s time to agree on what it can and can’t do.

That’s why a growing number of researchers—computer scientists, cognitive scientists, neuroscientists, linguists—want to overhaul the way they are assessed, calling for more rigorous and exhaustive evaluation. Some think that the practice of scoring machines on human tests is wrongheaded, period, and should be ditched.

“There’s a lot of anthropomorphizing going on,” she says. “And that’s kind of coloring the way that we think about these systems and how we test them.”

“There is a long history of developing methods to test the human mind,” says Laura Weidinger, a senior research scientist at Google DeepMind. “With large language models producing text that seems so human-like, it is tempting to assume that human psychology tests will be useful for evaluating them. But that’s not true: human psychology tests rely on many assumptions that may not hold for large language models.”

We Analyzed Millions of ChatGPT User Sessions: Visits are Down 29% since May, Programming Assistance is 30% of Use — from sparktoro.com by Rand Fishkin

In concert with the fine folks at Datos, whose opt-in, anonymized panel of 20M devices (desktop and mobile, covering 200+ countries) provides outstanding insight into what real people are doing on the web, we undertook a challenging project to answer at least some of the mystery surrounding ChatGPT.

Crypto in ‘arms race’ against AI-powered scams — Quantstamp co-founder — from cointelegraph.com by Tom Mitchelhill
Quantstamp’s Richard Ma explained that the coming surge in sophisticated AI phishing scams could pose an existential threat to crypto organizations.

With the field of artificial intelligence evolving at near breakneck speed, scammers now have access to tools that can help them execute highly sophisticated attacks en masse, warns the co-founder of Web3 security firm Quantstamp.

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How do you create and maintain an e-learning portfolio without pitfalls? [Various]

On 08/21/2023, in career development, corporate universities / corporate training, elearning, training / L&D, workplace, by Daniel Christian

How do you create and maintain an e-learning portfolio without pitfalls? — from linkedin.com by various authors

If you are an e-learning professional, you know how important it is to showcase your skills and projects to potential clients, employers, or collaborators. An e-learning portfolio is a collection of your best work that demonstrates your abilities, creativity, and experience in designing, developing, and delivering online learning solutions. But how do you create and maintain an e-learning portfolio without pitfalls? In this article, you will learn some tips and best practices to help you avoid common mistakes and make your portfolio stand out.

Speaking of career-related postings, I thought this was an interesting article:

In Praise of the Meandering Career — from every.to by Simone Stolzoff
Build a compass, not a map

Midjourney prompt/"meandering career" Midjourney prompt/”meandering career”

There’s a common misconception that our résumés ought to tell a linear story, free from breaks, twists, and turns. But this assumption is not borne out in reality. Nearly three out of every four college graduates work in a field unrelated to their major. The average worker holds over a dozen jobs by their fifties. And over half of today’s college students will work jobs that don’t yet exist.

Taking a nontraditional path will force you to grapple with what matters
The greatest benefit of a nontraditional path is that you have to figure out what you care about. Rather than an employer telling you what you should value, you have to do the hard work of determining what you value for yourself.

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Time will tell whether this statement from Jeff Maggioncalda, Coursera’s CEO, will be the case. [Christian]

On 08/05/2023, in 21st century, adult learning, Alternatives, career development, change, changing business models, collaboration, colleges, community colleges, credentialing, future, future of higher education, game-changing environment, higher education, instructional design, learning ecosystem, learning preferences, liberal arts, lifelong learning, MOOCs -- Massive Open Online Courses, new business models, skills, training / L&D, United States, universities, vendors, vision/possibilities, by Daniel Christian

From DSC:
Time will tell.

Per Jeff Maggioncalda, Coursera CEO: “This system-wide industry micro-credential program sets an innovative blueprint for the future of higher education.”

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University Of Texas, Coursera Launch Historic Micro-credential Partnership — from forbes.com by Michael T. Nietzel

The University of Texas and Coursera, the online learning platform and a pioneer of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS), are launching a large-scale, industry-recognized micro-credential program. The collaboration was announced today in a blogpost by Coursera.

Through the new partnership, every student, faculty, and staff (and even alumni) across all nine universities in the University of Texas (UT) System will gain access to Courser’s Career Academy for no additional cost to them.

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The future of learning and skilling with AI in the picture [Janice Burns out at chieflearningofficer.com]

On 08/05/2023, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, Alternatives, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, business, career development, content development, aggregation, repositories, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, future, learning ecosystem, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, personalized/customized learning, platforms, skills, training / L&D, by Daniel Christian

The future of learning and skilling with AI in the picture — from chieflearningofficer.com by Janice Burns
Janice Burns, chief transformation officer at Degreed, looks at how AI is impacting the future of learning and skilling.

Sections include:

  • Saving L&D time
  • Recommending and personalizing
  • ‘As you need it’ learning 
  • A career coach for everyone?
  • More advances coming
  • Be mindful of the limitations
  • Remain open to the changes coming

Also relevant/see:

Who Will Train Digital (Legal) Talent At Scale? — from forbes.com by Mark A. Cohen

Excerpt (emphasis DSC):

The urgency to fill existing and prospective positions with digital talent and to upskill those already in the workforce are among the reasons why leading companies have boldly assessed and transformed their enterprise talent management strategies. Some key initiatives leading companies are undertaking include:

  • Direct involvement by the C-Suite in the formulation of the enterprise talent strategy and lifecycle;
  • A paradigmatic hiring shift from diplomas to skills;
  • Increased investment in upskilling and career advancement to promote retention and to identify high-performers early on;
  • Targeted collaboration with universities focused on training in areas of existing and projected talent supply demand
  • Promoting a learning-for-life mindset and encouraging creative thinking, cross-cultural collaboration, and forging a culture that values these and other humanistic values.
  • Collaborating with other companies to create joint solutions for fulfilling skill demand

Practical, powerful employee education: How interactivity supports greater learning online — from chieflearningofficer.com by Natasha Nicholson

Consider this comparison: In more passive online learning, a participant will learn primarily by listening, watching and observing. Conversely, in an interactive model, the participant will be expected to engage with a story or situation by being asked to make choices that will show potential consequences.
…
Here are some of the elements that, when combined, make interactive learning especially effective:

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UEI College provides students with a wide range of career training opportunities for those who enjoy hands-on work and are interested in building, fixing, or designing things. [uei.edu]

On 08/05/2023, in adult learning, career development, skills, training / L&D, vocational / trades, workplace, by Daniel Christian

Skilled Trades School — from uei.edu with thanks to Noah Adam for this resource

Excerpt:

UEI College provides students with a wide range of career training opportunities for those who enjoy hands-on work and are interested in building, fixing, or designing things. UEI College’s programs range from HVAC Training to Automotive Technician Training. Our skilled trades programs are designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills needed to succeed in your chosen trade. With experienced instructors, hands-on training, and suitable facilities, we are able to provide you with a comprehensive education that prepares you for a successful career in the skilled trades.

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A cam/mic/light/teleprompter remote kit for non-tech-savvy guests, including Shure MV7 [Tépper]

On 08/05/2023, in A/V -- audio/visual, adjunct faculty, Australia, collaboration, colleges, communications, community colleges, content development, aggregation, repositories, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, digital audio, digital learning, digital video, distance education, education technology, experimentation, faculty, higher education, instructional design, IT in HE, K-12 related, law schools, media/film, mobile technologies, multimedia, new media literacies, online learning, online media, online tutoring, platforms, podcasting, productivity / tips and tricks, remote teaching and learning, teachers, teaching & learning, teaching online, technologies for your home, telelegal, telemedicine / telehealth / virtual health, telepresence, tools, training / L&D, UK, United States, universities, user experience (UX), vendors, videoconferencing, Virtual courts and law firms, virtual field trips, virtual K-12 schools, virtual tutoring, web-based collaboration, by Daniel Christian

A cam/mic/light/teleprompter remote kit for non-tech-savvy guests, including Shure MV7 — from provideocoalition.com by Allan Tépper

Excerpt (emphasis DSC):

Inspired by my recent Review: Shure MV7 dynamic hybrid studio microphone – near, far and beyond, Beaker Films of Fairfield, Connecticut, US has developed and deployed a first batch of 10 kits to capture remote conversations from different locations worldwide. Beaker Films is frequently contracted to record remote interviews or testimonials from medical professionals. For this project, Beaker Films’ clients wanted consistent, high quality audio and video, but with 3 additional challenges: they preferred to have no visible microphone in the shot, they needed a teleprompter function and the whole kit needed to be as simple as possible for non-technical guests.


…

Speaking of A/V-related items, also see:

Seven worlds one planet at the BBC Earth Experience — from inavateonthenet.net by Paul Milligan

‘Holographic’ animal-free zoo opens in Australia — from inavateonthenet.net

XR Lab opens in UK college — from inavateonthenet.net

West Suffolk College in the UK has opened its Extended Reality Lab (XR Lab), the facilities comprise of four distinct areas: an Immersion Lab, a Collaboration Theatre, a Green Room, and a Conference Room. The project was designed by architects WindsorPatania for Eastern Colleges Group.

CJP to create virtual studio for Solent University — from inavateonthenet.net

Systems integrator CJP Broadcast Service Solutions, has won a tender to build a virtual production environment for Solent University in the UK.

The new facilities, converted from an existing studio space, will provide students on the film production courses with outstanding opportunities to develop their creative output.

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“Generative AI and the future of work in America” [McKinsey] + several other AI-related items

On 07/29/2023, in Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, career development, change, colleges, community colleges, content development, aggregation, repositories, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, education, education technology, elearning, emerging technologies, experimentation, future, higher education, innovation, instructional design, intelligent systems, intelligent tutoring, learning ecosystem, Learning Experience Design, tools, training / L&D, trends, United States, universities, vendors, workplace, by Daniel Christian

Generative AI and the future of work in America — from mckinsey.com by Kweilin Ellingrud, Saurabh Sanghvi, Gurneet Singh Dandona, Anu Madgavkar, Michael Chui, Olivia White, and Paige Hasebe

At a glance

  • During the pandemic (2019–22), the US labor market saw 8.6 million occupational shifts, 50 percent more than in the previous three-year period.
  • By 2030, activities that account for up to 30 percent of hours currently worked across the US economy could be automated—a trend accelerated by generative AI.
  • Federal investment to address climate and infrastructure, as well as structural shifts, will also alter labor demand.
  • An additional 12 million occupational transitions may be needed by 2030.
  • The United States will need workforce development on a far larger scale as well as more expansive hiring approaches from employers.

Employers will need to hire for skills and competencies rather than credentials, recruit from overlooked populations (such as rural workers and people with disabilities), and deliver training that keeps pace with their evolving needs.

The AI-Powered, Totally Autonomous Future of War Is Here — from wired.com by Will Knight
Ships without crews. Self-directed drone swarms. How a US Navy task force is using off-the-shelf robotics and artificial intelligence to prepare for the next age of conflict.

From DSC:
Hhhhmmmmm…..not good. Is anyone surprised by this? No, I didn’t think so either. That’s why the United States and China are so heated up about semiconductor chips.

AI puts glitch in graduates’ employment plans — from hrdive.com by Ginger Christ
Recent grads are worried how AI will affect their career prospects, a new survey found.

Excerpt:

  • The proliferation of new technologies like generative artificial intelligence is making recent graduates uneasy, a new study released Thursday found. A third of the 1,000 people who graduated in the past year said they are second-guessing their career choice, while roughly half reported questioning their workforce preparedness and feeling threatened by AI, according to the 2023 Employability Report by Cengage Group, a global education technology company.

“The workplace has changed rapidly in the last few years, and now we are witnessing a new shift as AI begins to reshape worker productivity, job requirements, hiring habits and even entire industries,” Michael Hansen, Cengage Group CEO, said in a news release. 

Along these lines, also see:

AI Boom Creates Concerns for Recent Graduates — from insidehighered.com by  Lauren Coffey

More than half of recent graduates question whether they are properly prepared for the workforce in light of the rise of artificial intelligence, a survey finds.
…
There is also more of a preference for skills training credentials. Among employers, nearly 40 percent said skills training credentials are most important, while only 19 percent ranked a college degree as most important.
…
However, recent graduates did cite an issue with most higher education institutions’ ability to teach employability skills. In 2023, 43 percent of students said their degree program taught them the necessary skills for their first job, down 20 percentage points from 2022.

Instructure, Khan Academy Announce Major Partnership On AI Tutoring, Teaching
— from forbes.com by Derek Newton

The news is that Instructure, one of the few public education companies and the market leader in learning management with their signature product Canvas, struck a partnership with Khan Academy to create an AI-powered tutoring and teaching assistant tool – merging Khan’s innovative instructional content and Instructure’s significant reach, scale, and data insights. The partnership and related tools will be known as Khanmigo, according to the announcement.

On brand names alone, this is a big deal. On potential impact, it could be even bigger.

How To Use AI to Write Scenarios — from christytuckerlearning.com by Christy Tucker
How can you use AI to write scenarios for learning? Read this example with prompts and results using ChatGPT and Bard.

Excerpts:

So far, I have found these tools helpful in generating ideas, writing first drafts, and summarizing. They work better for general knowledge tasks than really specific topics unless I provide more details to them, which makes sense.

This post isn’t going to give you “5 magical prompts to instantly write scenarios for you” or anything like that. Instead, this is a “working out loud” post where I’ll share some prompts I have used.

Christy’s posting includes:

  1. “The Meeting from Hell”
  2. “The Backstabbing Coworker”
  3. “The Boss from Hell”
  4. “The Office Romance Gone Wrong”
  5. “The New Hire with Attitude”

Some potential tools for you to check out:

The Rise of the Talent Economy — from drphilippahardman.substack.com by Dr. Philippa Hardman
How Education & Training Will Dictate the Future & Impact of AI

“Talent, more than capital, will represent the critical factor of production.”
…
In short, the demand for AI skills requires a significant transformation in training and education models. To bridge the global skills gap, educational institutions, online learning providers, and employers must design and deliver training programs that cater to the rapidly evolving AI-driven labor market. 

How ChatGPT killed my discussion boards and prompted new prompts — from timeshighereducation.com by Sara Cline; per Robert Gibson on LinkedIn
Advice on learning and discussion prompts that require students to think beyond the remit of AI responses

Excerpts:

To combat this problem, we modified some of our prompts this summer to try to prevent students from using AI to avoid learning. I’m sharing some of our strategies in the hope that they help you out as you adapt your course to a world of generative AI.

  1. Use prompts that force a personal opinion.
  2. Have students include their source(s) as an attachment.
  3. Use current or local events.
  4. Have them take and caption a photo.
  5. Draw a diagram or chart.
  6. Build and explain a 3D model.
  7. Include timestamps from lecture videos.
  8. Scrap the discussion boards.

Dark web ChatGPT is here… — from therundown.ai

The Rundown: A new cybercrime generative AI tool called FraudGPT is being advertised on the Dark web and Telegram channels, offering offensive capabilities like crafting spear-phishing emails and creating undetectable malware.
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Why it matters: Scammers can now look more realistic than ever before and at a larger scale. The sad truth is that the emergence of cybercrime AI tools like FraudGPT is just beginning.

From DSC:
If true and if it could help build and/or contribute to cloud-based learner profiles,  this could be huge.

Wayfair’s AI tool can redraw your living room and sell you furniture — from theverge.com by Wes Davis
The home decoration company’s new Decorify AI remodeling tool is clumsy but could be effective for visualization while remodeling.

A living room -- Wayfair is experimenting with using AI technologies to help people envision interior design moves

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Q&A from Vendors – Learning Systems Edition [Weiss]

On 07/29/2023, in CMS/LMS, content development, aggregation, repositories, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, productivity / tips and tricks, tools, training / L&D, vendors, by Daniel Christian

Q&A from Vendors – Learning Systems Edition — from elearninfo247.com by Craig Weiss

Excerpt:

It is kind of weird. So many sites that list Q&A’s – mine included, look at it from the reader’s standpoint – what I refer to as consumers, even though they may have an audience consisting of PEs (Private Equity), outside their industry (C-Level and similar), vendors in the specific industry (e-learning) and sub-segments OR just a variety of folks who are not on the consumer side of the house, instead on the vendor or investment side.

And yet, I receive a lot of inquiries from vendors, including PE and investment firms. They all have questions. They all seek answers. I will hold back from the investment and PE side; let’s take a peek at the vendor side.

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How Professionals Are Using AI in eLearning [teamedforlearning.com]

On 07/24/2023, in content development, aggregation, repositories, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, elearning, training / L&D, by Daniel Christian

How Professionals Are Using AI in eLearning — from teamedforlearning.com

The boom in artificial intelligence is touching nearly every industry, and eLearning is no exception. From content creation to instructional design, industry professionals and organizations are finding innovative ways to apply AI in elearning. Whether creating training modules for corporate employees or crafting educational programs, professionals are making AI part of their standard toolkit.

At Teamed, we have the privilege of working and speaking with people from all over the elearning industry including instructional designers, content developers, and organizations considering how to apply it for productivity and the benefit of learners. AI and machine learning come up frequently in these conversations. Here’s what we’ve learned and observed about AI in elearning from experts in our industry.

On a somewhat related note, also see:

The hottest new job is “head of AI” and nobody knows what they do — from www-vox-com.cdn.ampproject.org by Rani Molla
America’s biggest companies are hiring AI leadership as fast as they can.

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Animation Tips for eLearning [Brandon]

On 07/14/2023, in animation, content development, aggregation, repositories, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, digital storytelling, elearning, productivity / tips and tricks, professional development, story, storytelling, tools, training / L&D, vendors, by Daniel Christian

Animation Tips for eLearning — from learningguild.com by Bill Brandon

Excerpt:

Why use animation in eLearning? Many people may think of animation in terms of entertainment value alone. Animation is far more valuable for its ability to engage learners, explain or illustrate ideas, and improve recall of complex relationships, such as cause and effect.

Look up these specific animation types for use in your projects:

  1. Whiteboard animation: Not necessary to be able to draw the characters. Multiple brands.
  2. Stop-motion animation
  3. Animation programs for beginners
  4. Free animation software

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Be an eLearning Storyteller With Style and Confidence — from learningguild.com by Bill Brandon

Excerpt:

Humans are good storytellers, and humans respond well to stories. We know this from our own experience. Not only that, people remember stories for a long time, far longer than we remember a lot of teaching. Do you recall stories that someone in your family told you? Why don’t we remember lessons from school as long or as vividly? Stories are powerful if we know how to use them. In this article I will introduce you to a way to use stories to achieve outcomes.

Any time you are designing a course, a learning experience, or just pitching an idea to your boss or an L&D stakeholder, it’s a story. Even if it does not seem like one, a successful production—whether it is an animated presentation, a virtual supporting example or other content—is based on some fundamental storytelling tactics. It doesn’t have to begin “Once Upon A Time,” it just needs to be constructed the right way for your purpose – To make it a memory.

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