AI-Powered Course Design
AI-Powered Course Design
The flagship course, and a live demonstration of the method it teaches. You will turn a topic you know into a structured, outcome-driven course and build it as interactive web-based learning using AI, skipping the slow, expensive authoring tools entirely. Grounded in real adult-learning science, delivered in plain language, with everything aimed at one thing: a finished course you can actually launch.
What you will be able to do
- Turn any topic into a structured, outcome-driven course using a repeatable framework
- Apply adult-learning principles (cognitive load, scaffolding, retrieval) without the jargon
- Use AI to draft, storyboard, and build interactive lessons faster than traditional tools
- Build branching scenarios, knowledge checks, and practice that changes behavior
- Ship a finished course you can sell or deploy
All lessons
Module 1
Foundations: How Adults Actually Learn
Explain why most courses fail and frame your own around real outcomes.
- 8 minPublished
Why most online courses fail (and what learning science fixes)
The common failure patterns, and the few principles that prevent them.
- 7 minPublished
The four questions every lesson must answer
What, Why, How, and Now what — the GRG teaching frame.
- 8 minPublished
Cognitive load: the real reason learners quit
How to stop overwhelming learners and keep them moving.
- 9 minPublished
Outcomes before content: objectives that drive design
Write objectives that make every later decision easier.
- 25 minPublished
Draft your course promise and three outcomes
Define the transformation your course delivers.
Module 2
From Idea to Blueprint
Produce a complete, sequenced course map ready to build.
- 9 minDraft
The AI-assisted course map
Go from topic to modules to lessons in minutes, then refine.
- 8 minDraft
Sequencing for momentum
Scaffolding and the difficulty curve that keeps learners going.
- 7 minDraft
Choosing the right lesson type for each objective
Match teaching method to what you actually need learners to do.
- 8 minDraft
Prompting AI to pressure-test your structure
Use AI as a critical reviewer of your own design.
- 30 minDraft
Generate and refine your full course blueprint
Build the map you will develop for the rest of the course.
Module 3
Writing Lessons That Stick
Write a complete, engaging lesson with built-in reinforcement.
- 7 minDraft
Microlearning and chunking: the 7-minute lesson
Sizing content so it fits attention and memory.
- 8 minDraft
Storytelling and examples that make concepts concrete
Turn abstract ideas into things learners can picture.
- 8 minDraft
Writing scripts AI can turn into media
Draft content structured for AI-built video and interaction.
- 7 minDraft
Retrieval practice and spaced reinforcement
Design recall in so learning sticks past the lesson.
- 30 minDraft
Write one complete lesson with a knowledge check
Produce a polished, reinforced lesson.
Module 4
Building Interactivity with AI
Build interactions that develop skill, not just test recall.
- 8 minDraft
Beyond multiple choice: interactions that build skill
The interaction types worth your time, and why.
- 9 minDraft
Branching scenarios and simulations
The realistic practice traditional tools struggle to build.
- 8 minDraft
Drag-and-drop, hotspots, and sorting with AI
Hands-on interactions generated and refined with AI.
- 8 minDraft
AI-evaluated free-text responses
Authentic, open-ended practice with real feedback.
- 35 minDraft
Build one interactive scenario for your course
Create a working branching scenario.
Module 5
Assessment, Polish, and Launch
Publish a finished, branded, assessable course.
- 8 minDraft
Assessments that measure the outcome, not recall
Design evaluation that proves the skill transferred.
- 7 minDraft
Accessibility and inclusive design basics
Make your course usable by everyone, by default.
- 8 minDraft
Branding your course so it doesn't look AI-generic
Apply identity so your work stands out.
- 8 minDraft
Packaging, hosting, and selling your course
Get it out the door and in front of learners.
- 45 minDraft
Final project: publish your course
Ship the course you have been building throughout.