ACE-LD-13BeginnerTier 3 · Specialist
AI for New L&D Professionals: Getting Started
Get oriented to AI in learning and development with approachable examples, useful tools, and sensible first steps.
What you’ll explore
- Explain how AI is changing L&D, which tasks AI can accelerate and which judgment calls stay human, and which skills matter most in the AI era
- Use ChatGPT, Claude and Canva AI with confidence, writing specific prompts and refining drafts with targeted follow-ups
- Use AI to prepare a stakeholder conversation about a learning need and turn a rough brief into SMART learning objectives
- Apply AI to core L&D tasks including session plans, participant materials, assessment questions and admin communications, and review them for accuracy and fit
- Build a personal prompt library and an AI skill development plan for their first year in L&D
Course outline
01The L&D Career in the AI Era: What Is Changing, What Is Not and Where You Fit60 min
02Essential AI Tools for New L&D Professionals: ChatGPT, Claude and Canva AI, and the Skill of Specific Prompting60 min
03AI for Your First Stakeholder Conversation: Learning Needs Analysis and SMART Objectives from a Rough Brief60 min
04From Objectives to Materials: Session Plans, Participant Materials, Assessment Questions and L&D Admin with AI60 min
05Your AI L&D Career Advantage: Building a Prompt Library, a First-Year Skills Plan and Your Starter Kit60 min
Who it’s for
New and emerging L&D professionals starting their careers in the AI era Career changers and graduates moving into learning and development roles HR, training and operations staff who have recently picked up responsibility for training