Donald Clark is one of the most well-known experts on bringing AI into Learning and Instruction. He's the former CEO of Epic Group plc, and current CEO of AI learning company WildFire.

In this episode, we spoke all about why L&D can't seem to nail the right problems for the business and their failed approach to making learning happen.

And of course...how we could fix it.

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Chapters

0:00 - Intro and Donald's background

2:47 - The early beginnings of learning technologies

5:47 - Turning yourself into an AI model with Synthesia

9:18 - The role of AI avatars in performance support

13:39 - Why is AI such a boon for learning?

20:32 - The Big Problem with Workplace Learning

25:52 - What are the skills that L&D needs to have to survive?

33:37 - The role of dialogue and intelligence and language

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🖐🏽 Key Takeaways:

1. Learning is a process and L&D needs to remember learning science if it wants to drive new behavior and results. Training as an event is dead.

2. AI avatars provide a face and a voice for the content that gets generated. We'll need something to interact with.

3. People are missing the point of ChatGPT in being a program for learning through dialogue.

4. The Future of AI in Learning and Development is performance support...not more content.

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📚 Resources:

Donald's blog: http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/

Connect with Donald: ⁠LinkedIn⁠

Great Minds on Learning Podcast: ⁠Link to show⁠

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🤔 About the Host

Kevin Alster leads the learning team at Synthesia focusing primarily on product education and client services.

With over a decade of experience in education and learning, he has moved from the classroom and into tech to help people create and communicate better through video.

He has been developing enterprise and branded learning solutions in organizations such as General Assembly, The School of The New York Times, and Sotheby’s Institute of Art.

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🧑🏽‍🏫 Check out the ⁠Synthesia Academy⁠ here:

⁠https://www.synthesia.io/academy⁠ 🗣

Or get in touch with me on LinkedIn

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