📢Didask's Pedagogical AI, developed through collaboration between cognitive science researchers and pedagogy experts, is designed to assist you in creating effective online training courses. Although it is impressive in many ways, it is not infallible!
💡 Why should you enhance your content using Pedagogical AI?
Didask's Pedagogical AI was developed by experts, adhering to the principles of cognitive science research. That said, AI is not a substitute for a pedagogical designer or work expert, but is assisting him.
It helps you overcome the challenge of starting from a blank page by generating initial drafts or first versions of your content, speeding up the content creation process. Its automatic manager provides a draft or first version so you can inspire and move faster.
Thus, AI-managed content often requires changes to ensure pedagogical effectiveness. The role of the instructional designer remains crucial, now focusing on editing and refining the AI’s suggestions to ensure high-quality learning experiences...
🛠️ How to sublimate the proposals of the Pedagogical AI?
We are realistic: AI does not hold the magic formula of the perfect content from the first try. Editing is necessary to transform its suggestions into engaging and effective e-learning. We’ve developed a review guide specifically for this purpose.
1️⃣ Learning Objectives
❓Key Question: Are the learning objectives precise and aligned with your training needs and target audience?
AI does not always identify the correct messages
If most of the content doesn’t meet your expectations, consider generating a new draft. The AI may occasionally miss the mark, but our writing guide can help you refine your prompts to get better results.
AI cannot guess the learner population (beginners/experts, etc.) nor their identity (employee/student/manager etc) to who your content is targeted.
To address this, we offer additional writing tips to help you better contextualize your requests, ensuring more accurate AI-generated content.
➡️ When generating a module from source content:
Create at least two different drafts by providing detailed context in the request field, e.g., "I want to address new accountants using formal language."
➡️ When generating a learning unit from objectives:
Specify the target audience's profession, e.g., "untrained accountants at Company X."
Add contextual elements (by specifying if necessary their profession), e.g. “when the accountant has to edit the liabilities balance sheet”
Use precise action verbs to clearly define learning outcomes, even if it means being redundant, e.g. “is not listening”, “rather plan activities than listen to children”.
2️⃣ Structure
❓Key Question: Does the structure align with your learning objectives and needs ?
🔍 To ensure the structure supports your goals:
Rewrite objectives more clearly if needed and generate new learning units
Remove any additional information that doesn’t serve the learning objective.
Edit learning units to ensure they directly address the objectives, even if it requires changing the type of activity.
❓Key Question : Does the structure progress logically from simple to complex?
🔍 To make sure this is the case, try to:
Organize content so it’s easily understandable, moving from simple to more complex concepts.
Start with basic memorization exercises and gradually introduce more challenging, real-life scenarios toward the end of the course.
💡Starting with pure memorization exercises and ending with challenges that mirror real-life scenarios are essential steps to achieving success.
❓Key Questions: Does the structure logically support learning essential concepts?
Ensure that the information hierarchy reflects the intended learning sequence and priorities.
❓Key Questions: Does the structure allow sufficient practice of the key concepts?
Effective learning activities engage memory through repetition. Make sure that learners can recall and apply key concepts in various forms and contexts.
3️⃣ Learning Context
❓Key Question: Is the learning scenario realistic and relevant to the learners’ real-world challenges?
The AI might suggest abstract scenarios that lack simplicity or relevance.
When this happens, rewrite the text to add more realism, especially in dialogues, which should clarify rather than complicate the learning experience. This is all the more important in a situation with dialogues: these are supposed to make situations more obvious, not the other way around.
❓Key Question: Are the proposed visuals relevant?
Make sure visuals make it easier to understand and do not add unnecessary information that could impact your learners' concentration.
The AI tends to suggest generic visuals, so consider replacing them with more specific and relevant ones. By the same token, narrators and characters should be added to the dialogue bubbles.
❓Key Question: Are the information and activities adapted to the learner's initial level?
The cost of processing (or cognitive load) of a single information is higher for a novice than for an expert. Therefore, you need to tailor content to match the level of your learners.
❓Key Question: Do the information and activities encourage active participation?
Engage learners by prompting them to:
Reflect on the content,
Reuse and reorganize previous knowledge,
Solve practical problems (in the case of an exercise).
4️⃣ Assessment
❓Key Question: are the answer choices relevant?
For a response option to be effective, it needs to be both clear and relevant. To ensure this, you can:
Check that the choices are understandable for someone with your target audience’s knowledge level
Assess the plausibility and originality of each choice.
Test the answer options by asking someone to guess the correct answer without seeing the question, which can reveal unintentional clues.
❓Key Question: Are feedbacks effective?
Effective feedback should be clear, constructive, and encouraging. To ensure this, you can:
Keep feedback concise,
Explain why answers are correct or incorrect,
Motivate learners by acknowledging their efforts.
5️⃣ Key Messages
❓Key Question: Is the key message clear and effective?
A key message should succinctly capture the core idea of the learning unit. To ensure this:
Use only essential words,
Make sure the message alone conveys the learning objective of the unit.
Related Topics:
🚀 How to Use Pedagogical AI to Generate an Exercise Unit or Flashcard
🤖 How to Automatically Transform Raw Content into a Complete E-learning Course with Pedagogical AI?
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