{"id":98354,"date":"2026-05-11T13:09:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=98354"},"modified":"2026-05-11T13:09:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:09:17","slug":"when-anyone-can-build-a-course-the-real-job-is-deciding-which-ones-shouldnt-exist-hardman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2026\/05\/11\/when-anyone-can-build-a-course-the-real-job-is-deciding-which-ones-shouldnt-exist-hardman\/","title":{"rendered":"When anyone can build a course, the real job is deciding which ones shouldn\u2019t exist [Hardman]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drphilippahardman.substack.com\/p\/when-anyone-can-build-a-course-the\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>When anyone can build a course, the real job is deciding which ones shouldn\u2019t exist<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from drphilippahardman.substack.com by Dr. Philippa Hardman<br \/>\n<em>Why deciding is the only L&amp;D skill AI can&#8217;t replace.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The biggest AI risk that L&amp;D faces isn\u2019t that it gets left behind: it\u2019s that we build\u00a0more\u00a0\u2014 and flood the organisation with meh-quality content nobody needed in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>In this post, I\u2019ll make the case that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The L&amp;D job has just split in two \u2014 and most of us are still working on the wrong half.<\/li>\n<li>There\u2019s a new operating model coming for the role, and it\u2019s already running inside a lot of the companies you\u2019ve heard of.<\/li>\n<li>The smartest critique of everything I\u2019m about to argue comes from Ethan Mollick \u2014 and I think he\u2019s half right.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>The question we\u2019ve been asking for the last two years \u2014\u00a0<em>\u201chow do I get faster at building?\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 was the wrong one.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>The real question is:\u00a0<em>can I look at fifteen AI-generated learning assets and decide which three are worth scaling \u2014 and put my name to that decision?<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When anyone can build a course, the real job is deciding which ones shouldn\u2019t exist &#8212; from drphilippahardman.substack.com by Dr. Philippa Hardman Why deciding is the only L&amp;D skill AI can&#8217;t replace. The biggest AI risk that L&amp;D faces isn\u2019t that it gets left behind: it\u2019s that we build\u00a0more\u00a0\u2014 and flood the organisation with meh-quality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,329,356,387,498,260,112,200,180,119,482,7,838,118,206,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-business","category-communities-of-practice","category-content-development-aggregation-repositories","category-corporate-business-world","category-corporate-universities","category-innovation","category-instructional-design","category-intelligent-systems","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-experience-design","category-training-corporate-universities","category-trends","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98355,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98354\/revisions\/98355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}