The AI x Instructional Design Mini Summit September 2026

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AI is already teaching. Make sure it teaches well.

This free mini-summit looks beyond faster content production. Through three expert-led sessions and a live panel, you’ll examine how AI affects instructional decisions, how it can support learners inside a course, and where human expertise remains indispensable.

Agenda

SESSION 1 - 50MIN

Your AI has a teaching style. Did you choose it?

AI models aren’t neutral teaching tools. Their responses reflect assumptions about knowledge, instruction, authority, and the learner.

Simon will show how these hidden pedagogies influence AI-generated course content. You’ll learn how to identify problematic defaults, question the model’s instructional choices, and guide AI toward the learning experience you intended to create.

You’ll take away:

A clearer understanding of the pedagogical assumptions built into AI-generated content
Ways to recognize bias in how AI explains, structures, and prioritizes information
Questions you can use to evaluate AI output before adding it to a course
A more deliberate approach to directing AI’s teaching style

Simon Strehler

Learning Experience and AI Product Specialist, LearnWorlds

SESSION 2 - 50 MIN + 5 MIN BREAK

When AI stops generating and starts teaching

AI is moving from the course creation process into the learning experience itself.

Yan will demonstrate an embedded AI instructor that responds to learners within their course, remembers relevant context, and adapts its support to their needs. You’ll see how AI can provide personalized guidance without sending learners to a separate chatbot or removing the structure of the course.

You’ll take away:

A practical example of an AI instructor embedded in a learning environment
A clearer view of how memory and context affect personalized support
Ideas for making courses more responsive to individual learner needs
Design principles for adding AI without letting it take over the experience

Yan Weng

Learning Experience and AI Product Specialist, LearnWorlds

SESSION 3 - 50 MIN

Design faster with AI: creating learning experiences that build skills

AI tools have changed considerably over the past year. The central challenge hasn’t: producing content faster means little if learners can’t use what they learn.

Marina will share updated AI workflows, new developments, and lessons from applying AI to course design. She’ll show how to move from scoping and drafting to review and delivery while keeping adult learning principles and skill development in view.

You’ll take away:

An updated workflow for designing course content with AI
Practical ways to scope, draft, and review learning materials
Criteria for checking whether AI-generated content supports skill development
Lessons from a year of changing tools and instructional design practice

Marina Arshavskiy

Instructional Design Consultant, Author & Educator at Your ELearning World

LIVE PANEL DISCUSSION - 20 MIN

Do we still need instructional designers in the AI era?

The panel will discuss which responsibilities AI can take on, which decisions still require human expertise, and how instructional designers can contribute when content production is no longer the hardest part of building a course.

Bring your questions and join the discussion on what the profession needs next.

Panelists:

Marina Arshavskiy – Instructional Design Consultant, Author & Educator at Your ELearning World
George Palaigeorgiou, CPO & Co-Founder, LearnWorlds
Yan Weng - Learning Experience and AI Product Specialist, LearnWorlds
Simon Strehler – Learning Experience and AI Product Specialist, LearnWorlds

This session will be most valuable for:

Training & program managers. Find practical ways to create and update training with AI while protecting quality across programs and audiences.

Instructional designers. Examine the pedagogical choices AI makes, decide where it belongs in your process.

Business owners & creators. Move beyond quick drafts and design courses that help learners build useful knowledge and skills.

L&D professionals. See how AI can support employees, customers, and partners through more contextual learning experiences

Turn what you learn into a recognized skill

Your learning continues after the live summit. Complete the self-paced workshop to apply the ideas from the sessions and earn a certificate in AI-powered instructional design from LearnWorlds. You can add the certificate to your portfolio, share it on LinkedIn, or use it as a record of your professional development.

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Don’t let AI make the teaching decisions for you

Learn to question what AI creates, decide where it belongs in the learning experience, and use your expertise where it matters most. Join us live on September 10.