Free: the AI Skills-to-Job Map — see your skills against real ID/LXD job listings — Map your skills →
AI4LD We Illuminate Explore Bundles
For Instructional Design & LXD Professionals

Move Beyond
AI Hype.

Learn how to connect and apply learning science to design AI-enabled experiences that support learning and performance.

Explore AI4LD Bundles Map your skills against real job listings →
AI4LD
Memory as AI Affordance
Live
Is It a Training Problem?
App
ILDF 2.0 Agentic Ecosystem
Soon
30+
Years of learning research
PhD
Professor Emerita, George Mason University
14-Day
Money-back guarantee on every bundle
The Foundation

Learning science first. AI second. Always.

Most "AI for L&D" advice skips the part where you already know something important: how people actually learn. AI4LD starts there - with cognitive load theory, evidence-based design, and performance support frameworks - and builds AI into that foundation.

Learning Matters Context Matters Feedback Drives Performance
  • Cognitive Load Theory applied to AI-enabled experiences
  • Gilbert's BEM and Mager & Pipe performance frameworks
  • Ethical AI grounded in how people actually retain knowledge
Cognitive Load
Coverage in all AI4LD modules
Performance Support
Gilbert's BEM + Mager & Pipe
Evidence-Based Design
Peer-reviewed research foundation
What You Own

Practical enough for today.
Grounded enough to last.

AI tools change every six months. Learning science doesn't. AI4LD bundles are designed to remain useful as the technology evolves - because they're rooted in the durable principles of how humans learn.

  • Focused microlearning you can apply immediately
  • Evergreen access - no subscriptions, you own it permanently
  • Expert-guided video series with real L&D scenarios
Bridging: How People Learn and AI
Foundational · eBook + Video
Introduction to GenAI and LLMs
Foundational · eBook + Video
Memory as AI Affordance
Advanced · eBook · Live now
AI Design Companions & Tools

AI Design Companions and Apps to support your design process.

Purpose-built AI companions and interactive apps that support a systematic instructional design and design research process — with the human designer in the loop at every stage. Each tool has structured internal reasoning grounded in instructional design theory and learning science. Chained together as a system in the Practitioner Stack — journey artifacts and gate outputs flowing from one phase to the next — the ecosystem is agentic; individually, each tool is a companion you direct, not an autonomous agent. Agentic features across turns are in active development for the next bundle.

  • Is It a Training Problem? - analysis app using Gilbert BEM + Mager & Pipe + CLT
  • LXD Evidence Assistant - runs a multi-step research task on its own, then hands you the synthesis for L&D
  • ILDF 2.0 Agentic Ecosystem - a chained system across 5 design phases (coming soon)
  • More tools in development - additional companions and apps across the full design process
AI Design Companion - LXD Companion
How do I design a microlearning module that uses AI without overloading the learner?
Great question. Cognitive Load Theory tells us that AI-generated content can increase extraneous load if it's not carefully chunked. Start by identifying the core performance goal using Gilbert's BEM - then let AI generate supporting content only for the germane load...
Ask your AI Design Companion...
"

AI should amplify what learning science already knows - not replace it.

Dr. Brenda Bannan - Professor Emerita, George Mason University · Founder, AI4LD
"

A great site and a great concept! I ran the LXD Evidence Assistant App and it works great! It gave me recommendations, measurement plan and references! It made all this work in no time!

Marina Scordato
Assistant Director, Learning Design and Development - EY
"

AI4LD leverages AI technology and educational resources to marry learning design theory and practice, providing learning design professionals with a more streamlined avenue for generating learning solutions.

Andrew Muccio
Instructional Designer
AI4LD Bundles & Toolkits

What You Get in Every AI4LD Unit

Evergreen access. No subscriptions. You own what you buy - and what you learn stays with you.

Signature - Practitioner Stack
ILDF 2.0 Practitioner Stack
Eight AI tools that walk the full applied instructional design process, analysis through evaluation — the Integrative Learning Design Framework (ILDF) in your hands on a real project, not just as theory.
  • Phase 1 — Analysis: Performance Diagnosis, Evidence Assistant, Learner Analysis, Context & Task Analysis
  • Phase 2 — Design: AI Affordance Mapper, Learner Experience Simulator
  • Phase 3 — Evaluation: Formative Evaluation Designer, Learning Analytics Interpreter
  • Outputs traceable to named learning-science frameworks
  • Includes the LXD Evidence Assistant (normally $47) at no extra cost
Get the Practitioner Stack — $197 See all eight tools →
8 AI agents · Evergreen access · 14-day money-back guarantee
Live Tool — Standalone
LXD Evidence Assistant
RAG-powered research synthesis for L&D professionals. Ask evidence-based questions, get recommendations grounded in learning science research — with citations.
  • Evidence-based recommendations + measurement plans
  • Grounded in academic research — journals, ERIC & current preprints, every source cited
  • Free preview available — no account needed
Try Free Preview Get Full Access — $47
Evergreen access · No subscription
Foundational
How AI and Learning Work
Four microlearning units covering the foundations every L&D professional needs before diving into AI-enabled design.
  • Bridging: How People Learn and AI
  • Introduction to GenAI and LLMs
  • Reinforcement Learning for LDs
  • Neural Networks for LDs
  • AI Design Companion per unit
  • Includes free AI Learning Context Lens (Unit 1)
Get Foundational — $97 Try your free analysis first →
eBook + Video + AI Design Companion · Evergreen access
Prefer to start smaller? Each unit is $25 on its own →
Advanced
Designing with AI Affordances
Four evidence-based ebooks for L&D professionals designing with AI — Memory, Reasoning, Agency, and Human-AI Collaboration — grounded in learning science.
  • Memory as AI Affordance
  • What Reasoning Agents Actually Do
  • Agency as an AI Affordance
  • Designing for Human-AI Collaboration
  • AI Design Companion per unit
  • Full access to the AI Affordance Mapper
Get Advanced — $147 Try the free AI Affordance Mapper →
eBook + Video + AI Design Companion · Evergreen access
Prefer to start smaller? Each unit is $25 on its own →
Forthcoming - Practitioner Suite
ILDF 2.0 Agentic Ecosystem
20 AI agents across 5 design phases. Enforced ILDF 2.0 sequence with outputs traceable to named frameworks. Starts with "Is It a Training Problem?"
  • "Is It a Training Problem?" app (first)
  • Needs assessment + problem framing tools
  • Multi-agent pipeline - Next.js + Claude API
Join the Waitlist
6 agents in development · 14 conceptualized
Start Learning with AI4LD

Bring the science back into AI-enabled learning design.

Join instructional designers and LXD professionals who are building AI into their practice - the right way.

Browse AI4LD Bundles Read the research →