AI Generated Course Homapge for Critical Thinking Course
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Can AI Build an Online Course?

ByFrank

The advancement of AI technology has brought numerous promises. We’ve been told that AI will make us more productive by “doing jobs for us” – but is that completely true?

My experience with AI suggests that the best use of AI is to reduce time-to-delivery on projects and work that, ultimately, requires the human touch to complete.

That stated, it is amazing how powerful AI is – and in this post, I wanted to share some experiences I’ve had in using AI to help build online courses.

*note: I’m writing this from scratch – no AI here 🙂

Experimenting with AI Course Creator

Recently, I was offered the opportunity to work with eSkilled AI Course Creator on a YouTube video. This allows me to build a course and demonstrate the use of the tool to build out a pretty comprehensive online course.

What I learned

There were some takeaways from this experience.

  • The speed at which I was able to create a course was impressive
  • The course benefited from providing some documents such as a course outline, core competencies, and such.
  • The objectives required some editing – the use of words such as “understand” in course objectives is not a best practice.
  • The tool allows for editing and it is important to go through each module step-by-step to ensure everything is correct. This was especially the case with some case-studies that failed to format correctly
  • The regionalization of the case-studies was especially impressive and will lead to better students engagement

The results were extremely useful and interesting

The results of the AI generated content was impressive and useful. I was amazed at how the structure and content was in line with what I would expect of an online course.

What I did next

My next step after my initial course creation in the video above was to create a course that I plan to edit and use in my teaching. A course on Critical Thinking.

This will be a course that I develop over time, but you can check it out as I build it. The main body and structure took a little bit the generate, and now I am adding media.

How will I use AI Course Creator in the Future?

I don’t see the tool replacing all teaching! However, I can see using the tool as a way to create some “micro-courses” on specific subject areas to support my classroom.

There are always students that struggle with certain concepts, and we see the same questions asked over and over again.

Something I would like to try is to connect to an LMS and to export SCORM files – for this, I will need an annual subscription – so that will have to wait for now.

Creating an online course to support self-efficacy and agency is something I think will be valuable.

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