AI Tutors, Coaches, and Practice Bots: When They Help and When They Don't

About this episode

Jackie Pelegrin explores the effectiveness of AI tutors and coaches in instructional design, discussing their potential benefits and pitfalls.

A bot can sound warm, responsive, and confident, and still teach the wrong thing. That’s the tension we dig into as we explore AI tutors, AI coaches, and practice bots through the lens that matters most to instructional designers: practice design that improves real performance, not just chat transcripts. Jackie walks through why AI can absolutely help us scale practice, create interactions faster, and give learners more chances to rehearse, reflect, and try again. But Jackie also draws a har...

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Host: Jackie Pelegrin

Topics covered

• AI tutors
• instructional design
• practice design
• AI coaching
• learner engagement

Keywords

• AI tutors
• practice bots
• instructional design
• learner performance
• coaching

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