Saw an AI course tool demo:
1) Type "Photoshop course"
2) Generate
3) Fix the title. Done โจ
Urg. I build AI course tooling myself: it's not magic.
Real courses target a performance gap - audience, pre-knowledge, behaviour, interactions. AI speeds that up. It doesn't skip it.
15 years in instructional design โ building LearnBuilder (learnbuilder.org). Sharing what I learn along the way. ๐จ๐ญ
Joined March 2026
- A customer asked me for an AI tutor block in LearnBuilder. Building it made me ask: what's actually the point of an AI tutor in an e-learning course? The research is not kind to tutors that happily hand over every answer โ a Wharton study found unrestricted AI help can even harm
- Most AI authoring tool content is written for people who've never built a course before. This one's for the people who have. A thread for instructional designers ๐งต
- I built an e-learning authoring tool because I was frustrated with existing ones. Curious: what would actually make you switch tools? Feature? Price? AI? Something else?
- I spent months building something nobody asked for. But I think everyone needs ;-) LearnBuilder turns your expertise into interactive courses - with support of AI if you want this, all hand-crafted if this is what you aim for. What would you teach if creating a course took hours,

