Not sure where to start? Try the free AI Skills-to-Job Map — See where you stand against real ID/LXD job listings →
AI4LD We Illuminate See your path

Your path through AI4LD

For instructional designers (IDs) and learning experience designers (LXDs): start free with a real design problem. Build your understanding of AI one step at a time. The design decisions stay with you.

  1. Start free

    Bring a problem you're working on

    Find out whether it's really a training problem, and see what the research says about it.

    See what's inside
    Start with a problem

  2. Foundational

    Understand how AI works, as an ID or LXD

    Four short units that connect how people learn to how AI systems learn and evolve.

    See the 4 units
    • How People Learn & AIWith the AI Learning Context Lens
    • Generative AI and language modelsWith the Multimodal Assessment Lab
    • Reinforcement learningWith the Reward Design Simulator
    • Neural networksWith "Why Did It Do That?"
    Explore Foundational

  3. Advanced

    Design with what AI can do

    Four units on memory, reasoning, agency and human-AI collaboration, each with an AI design companion, a thought partner to practice with.

    See the 4 units
    • MemoryWith the Design Memory Partner
    • ReasoningWith the Design Reasoning Partner
    • AgencyWith the Scoped Autonomy Coach
    • Human-AI collaborationWith the Co-Design Partner
    Explore Advanced

Try this featured tool

Describe a performance problem or design question in your own words. It searches five academic databases (OpenAlex, CrossRef, ERIC, Semantic Scholar and arXiv), ranks the research most relevant to your problem, and turns it into a suggested learning flow, assessment strategy and measurement plan. It can't make up a source: each citation is a real paper you can look up, with a direct link when one is available.

Try it free Your first research session is free.