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AI for Digital Learning Design: Co-Creating Human-Centered Digital Learning Experiences
What if artificial intelligence could amplify your creative vision for a course rather than flatten it into generic templates?
AI for Digital Learning Design: Co-Creating Human-Centered Digital Learning Experiences is a self-paced, asynchronous course that helps instructional designers, faculty, and academic leaders reframe AI as a critical, co-creative partner in the design process. Grounded in the Community of Inquiry model, narrative design theory, and accessibility and inclusion guidelines, the course walks participants through storyboarding learning journeys, triaging AI tools, prototyping media and learning objects, and stress-testing designs with diverse learners in mind.
Each module combines short readings, practice-based vignettes, and guided design sprints that move work from abstract ideas into concrete drafts. By the end of the course, participants develop a human-centered AI design blueprint, along with reusable prompts, workflows, and feedback practices they can adapt across courses and programs—supporting AI use that balances efficiency with authenticity, care, and meaningful connection.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Design learning experiences that integrate backward design, narrative structure, and Community of Inquiry principles to create coherent, story-driven learning journeys.
- Evaluate AI tools for instructional appropriateness, identifying when automation meaningfully supports learning and when human judgment and presence are essential.
- Create prototypes and learning objects using AI-assisted workflows while maintaining quality, personalization, and ethical standards.
- Apply accessibility guidelines and inclusive design principles so that AI-assisted courses serve diverse learners and honor multiple perspectives and ways of knowing.
- Build iterative design practices grounded in peer feedback, reflection, and ongoing professional learning.
SERVICE DELIVERABLES
- Access to a six-module, self-paced eLearning course (plus orientation) focused on AI-assisted, human-centered digital learning design.
- A Design Brief and Journey Map template for articulating narrative, outcomes, and alignment across a course or program.
- An AI Tool Triage Matrix to compare tools based on pedagogical fit, risks, and affordances.
- A Narrative Storyboard Canvas and guided prompts for story-driven course design.
- An Accessibility and Representation Checklist tailored to AI-assisted media and content creation.
- A Feedback and Iteration Protocol for collaborative critique and continuous improvement.
- A customizable Human-Centered AI Design Blueprint summarizing workflows, prompts, and design commitments participants can adapt across contexts.
INTENDED AUDIENCE
Instructional designers and learning experience designers, faculty developers,T&L Center staff, educators and course directors designing or redesigning digital and hybrid courses, academic leaders, educational technologists and others responsible for selecting and supporting AI and learning tools
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SERVICE MODEL
CONTACT HOURS
TIME ON TASK
- Approximate total engagement: 20–22 hours (orientation + six modules).
- Recommended pacing: Six weeks, at approximately 3–4 hours per week
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