Samira Karim is a PhD student in Education at Concordia University in Montreal. Her research focuses on studying the role of AI on skill gap analysis and curation for personalized learning. She has collaborated with the first two authors on their two AI Symposia.
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Will AI Change the Work of Instructional Designers? Maybe It Already Has
By Saul Carliner, Giuliana Cucinelli, and Samira Karim On the one hand, it seems that ever since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, professionals in learning and development (L&D)—including instructional design—have tried to figure out how this technology might affect the work of instructional designers. After all, some early examples of generative AI (the class of artificial intelligence tool represented by ChatGPT) include entire courses and tutoring services prepared by the software. Some writers focus on using AI; others speculate about how AI might change our jobs. On the other hand, despite the sudden appearance of ChatGPT, AI technologies…