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AI · Instructional Design 9 Jul 2026

The Course Production Pipeline: Instructional Design + AI

A 5-stage pipeline for combining instructional design and AI in course production: humans design the architecture, AI produces inside it.

Note · AI × Tools 16 Jul 2026

The Tool Was Never the Problem

AI changed the production layer, but swapping Storyline for a language model without a pipeline just makes bad courses faster. What actually determines quality.

Note · AI × Learning Design 9 Jul 2026

AI Is a Bricklayer, Not an Architect

Why AI-generated courses fail and AI-assisted courses succeed: design the learning architecture by hand, then let AI produce inside your constraints.

EdTech · Data 3 Jul 2026

E-Learning Completion Rates: Why They're Under 15% (And How to Fix Them)

The average e-learning completion rate is under 15%. Here is the real reason — and a proven framework for fixing it that does not require making your courses shorter.

AI · Architecture 15 Jun 2026

The Multi-Agent Architecture for Education

Why a single LLM prompt wasn't enough — and how splitting curriculum generation into specialized agents cut production time while improving consistency across the e-learning team.

EdTech · Systems 20 May 2026

Why I Treat the Curriculum Like a Software Architecture

A curriculum has components, dependencies, and failure modes — just like a distributed system. How applying software thinking to instructional design changed the way our team ships at scale.

EdTech · Content Strategy 5 May 2026

Why Nobody Finishes Your 1-Hour Video

In 2026, learners won't sit through an hour of anything. The fix isn't shorter videos — it's rethinking the unit of content entirely.

EdTech · Instructional Design 8 Apr 2026

The Information Dump Problem

Every platform has content. The ones that actually change behavior have something else — a system for how people learn, not just what to show them.