What AI Can't Replace in Instructional Design ft. Jonathan De La Cruz | My EdTech Life 363

About this episode

The episode discusses the irreplaceable aspects of instructional design in the age of AI with guest Jonathan De La Cruz.

AI can write your design doc. It can build your storyboard. It can draft your script, your rubric, your assessment, your video outline, and half of your e-learning module before lunch. So what's left for the instructional designer? According to Jonathan De La Cruz, everything that actually matters. Jonathan is an instructional designer at a supply chain company and at a Plano, Texas startup building an AI-assisted learning management system. But before all of that, he was a music educator. ...

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Fonz Mendoza

Guest: Jonathan De La Cruz

Topics covered

• AI in education
• instructional design
• e-learning
• technology in teaching
• role of instructional designers

Keywords

• AI
• instructional design
• e-learning
• education technology
• design document
• storyboard
• assessment
• learning management system

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Plano, Texas, AI-assisted learning management system, supply chain company, music educator

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