Back to basics: a webinar on what AI can and can't do for learning design
Speed isn't the same as learning. iSpring's next webinar with Dr Cris Wildermuth asks what good design actually looks like once AI is doing the heavy lifting on content.
AI can now produce a course in minutes. The harder question, the one most L&D teams are quietly stuck on, is whether any of it changes how people work the next day.
In Back to Basics: Building Learning in the Age of AI, Dr Cris Wildermuth, Professor of Leadership at Barry University and Director of its Organizational Leadership and Leadership & Innovation programmes, makes the case that the current AI moment is a useful forcing function. When content is cheap, design has to earn its keep. The session moves the conversation away from production speed and back to the parts of instructional design that decide whether training sticks: adult learning principles, real tasks, and the working environment a learner actually returns to.
What attendees will take away:
- How to spot when a course has been built for delivery rather than performance — and what to change
- How to apply core adult learning principles in a practical, non-academic way
- How to design contextual learning grounded in real tasks and real workflows
- Where AI genuinely helps the design process, and where it simply automates a weak approach faster
Wildermuth's work sits at the intersection of AI, ethics, and instructional design, with a track record of building learning experiences that lean on storytelling, simulation, and applied practice rather than slide-throughs. Expect a session that's opinionated, practical, and short on AI hype.
Back to Basics: Building Learning in the Age of AI
- Tuesday, 5 May 2026
- 12:00 PM EDT (17:00 BST)
- 1 hour
- Free
Attendees receive a certificate of attendance and the full recording.
Register here: Back to Basics — Building Learning in the Age of AI