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10 Ways Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Instructional Design (er.educause.edu)

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This article highlights how AI is transforming instructional design. A lot of the ideas brought up in the article like AI providing personalized or adaptive learning, tutoring, gamification, and AI-enhanced assessments can benefit students with learning disabilities or who are neurodiverse. As someone with ADHD receiving immediate feedback and lessons that use a variety of mediums to convey key concepts can help me stay engaged. #accessibility

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

As ever, the current AI hype is stupid, and almost everyone is in for a disappointment. But....

This is an area that AI shines.

An important aspect of inclusive design is consistently considering folks whose needs are often forgotten. Modern AI's regurgitation engine excels at catching things that feel obvious once pointed out.

But to step back onto my soap box, so does the average untrained random person (under expert guidance, given a use case to try to accomplish, etc.)

AI is genuinely fantastic for improving in first drafts before getting help from a second human.

Also, AI can bring in the most trivial impacts of expert guidance without access to the original expert. That's a pretty big boon in a lot of corners of life where expert guidance isn't highly available.

Accessibility is such an area. If AI can help non-experts apply even the most basic principles of accessibility, that's a win for everyone.

This sounds like a really cool use of AI.