Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

Here's the argument in a nutshell: "The pattern is clear: AI is collapsing specialist work, expanding what one person can do, and shifting the premium from niche expertise to end-to-end capability.The same pattern hasn't yet fully emerged in learning design - but there are signals to suggest that it is on its way." The instructional design function in particular seems headed for automation, but also a lot of the content-generation function, including in particular on-demand content generation, is headed that way. In my opinion, anyway.

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