AI for Learning and Development Training Course

Duration 10 days 20 modules · 65 contact hours
Level Intermediate Certificate on completion
Who attends Learning and Development Manager, Instructional Designer and others
Fee from USD 2,200 KSh 190,000 for Kenyan organisations
Where 52 cities + online See dates by city
Next start 16 Nov 2026 Course code SD-LD-242

Before you join: Participants should have practical experience designing, delivering, commissioning or managing workplace learning.

Dates & prices

Two start dates a month in every city, and live online on weekdays or weekends. Fees are per participant; classroom fees include tuition, materials, lunch and refreshments, and the certificate.

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Course overview

Learning and development teams are under pressure to produce useful learning assets faster while maintaining instructional quality, subject-matter accuracy, privacy and accessibility. Generative AI can reduce time spent on early drafts, content adaptation, question writing and learner support, but poorly governed use produces inaccurate materials, copyright exposure, weak assessment and inconsistent learner experiences. L&D professionals need a disciplined way to decide where AI adds value, where human review is mandatory, and how to evidence impact.

This course equips participants to design, build and govern AI-assisted learning solutions. It covers AI fundamentals for L&D, learning needs analysis, prompt design, content generation, instructional design, scenario development, assessment, personalisation, learning analytics and evaluation. Participants apply ADDIE, Kirkpatrick, Bloom's Taxonomy, xAPI and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework to realistic training work. They learn to write reusable prompts, establish review criteria, protect sensitive information, test generated outputs and measure learning and business results.

Teaching combines focused instructor briefings, demonstrations, case analysis, small-group design work, simulations and individual application planning. Cases include bank compliance training, public-sector policy rollouts, NGO safeguarding programmes and technical systems training. Throughout the course, participants develop an AI-assisted learning solution for a workplace need. They leave with a documented design pack containing a needs-analysis brief, prompt library, learning architecture, assessment plan, governance controls and evaluation approach.

The course is suited to experienced L&D practitioners, instructional designers, trainers, HR professionals and learning leaders who already design or manage workplace learning. It is also relevant to subject-matter experts responsible for reviewing AI-generated training content.

What you will be able to do

  • Assess AI use cases using a task suitability matrix and defined human-review criteria
  • Write structured prompts for learning analysis, content generation, assessment and learner support
  • Design AI-assisted learning journeys using ADDIE, Bloom's Taxonomy and adult-learning principles
  • Create reviewed learning assets including scenarios, facilitator guides, quizzes and job aids
  • Apply privacy, copyright, bias and accuracy controls to AI-supported learning workflows
  • Build an assessment blueprint with valid item types and AI-content review procedures
  • Develop an xAPI-informed measurement plan linked to Kirkpatrick evaluation levels
  • Present a complete AI-assisted learning solution with governance, implementation and evaluation plans

Benefits of attending

For you

  • Produces higher-quality learning drafts with defined human review controls
  • Builds a reusable prompt library for common L&D production tasks
  • Improves credibility when advising leaders on AI learning investments
  • Creates stronger assessment and evaluation plans for AI-assisted programmes
  • Develops a portfolio-ready AI-assisted learning solution for immediate use

For your organisation

  • Reduces repeated effort in drafting learning materials and adaptations
  • Establishes clearer controls for privacy, accuracy, bias and intellectual property
  • Improves consistency across facilitator guides, learner resources and assessments
  • Connects AI learning activity to measurable performance and business outcomes
  • Creates internal capability to govern AI-supported learning production responsibly

Course modules

20 modules over 10 days

Participants can identify suitable AI applications and limits within core L&D workflows.

  • Generative AI capabilities, limits, and failure modes in learning work
  • Distinguishing predictive, generative, and agentic AI use cases
  • Human judgment checkpoints for accuracy, relevance, fairness, and learner safety
  • Training-data provenance and intellectual-property risks in generated materials
  • AI task suitability matrix using consequence, complexity, and reviewability
  • Workflow map linking L&D processes to AI-assisted decisions

Participants can define practical governance controls for AI-supported learning work.

  • NIST AI RMF functions applied to learning-content production
  • Risk registers covering privacy, bias, accuracy, copyright, and accessibility
  • Data classification rules for learner records and source documents
  • Approval gates for generated materials, assessments, and learner communications
  • Audit trails documenting prompts, source materials, reviews, and revisions
  • Escalation criteria for harmful, misleading, or sensitive AI outputs

Participants can use AI to accelerate evidence-based learning needs analysis without replacing stakeholder judgment.

  • Performance consulting questions separating knowledge, skill, motivation, and process gaps
  • Stakeholder interview guides generated from stated business and performance problems
  • Root-cause analysis using the five whys and fishbone diagram
  • Audience personas based on validated role, context, and capability evidence
  • Task analysis identifying critical decisions, errors, and performance standards
  • AI-assisted synthesis checked against interview notes and operational data

Participants can write structured prompts that produce controllable learning-design outputs.

  • Prompt structure using role, task, context, constraints, and output format
  • Few-shot examples for consistent tone, terminology, and instructional patterns
  • Source-grounded prompting with approved policies, procedures, and reference documents
  • Rubric-based prompts for self-checking generated learning materials
  • Iterative prompt refinement through critique, revision, and comparison
  • Prompt libraries organised by analysis, design, development, and evaluation tasks

Participants can apply learning science to review and improve AI-generated learning designs.

  • ADDIE phases mapped to AI-supported learning-development activities
  • Bloom's Taxonomy verbs matched to observable workplace performance
  • Cognitive load principles for chunking explanations, examples, and practice
  • Gagné's nine events used to sequence instructional interactions
  • Adult-learning assumptions applied to relevant, problem-centred learning tasks
  • Quality criteria distinguishing information delivery from performance-focused instruction

Participants can design a blended learning journey supported by appropriate AI-enabled touchpoints.

  • Learning journey maps connecting prework, instruction, practice, and transfer
  • Modality decisions for classroom, virtual, self-paced, and performance support
  • Spaced retrieval schedules aligned with risk, task frequency, and mastery
  • Scenario sequencing from familiar decisions to ambiguous workplace cases
  • Personalisation rules based on role, baseline capability, and learning evidence
  • AI touchpoints selected for preparation, feedback, reinforcement, and support

Participants can produce and review AI-assisted learning content from approved source material.

  • Content briefs specifying audience, performance outcomes, sources, and constraints
  • Source hierarchy prioritising policies, procedures, standards, and expert validation
  • Plain-language rewriting without changing regulated or technical meaning
  • Fact-check protocol comparing generated claims with authoritative source documents
  • Version-control conventions for AI drafts, reviewed copy, and approved assets
  • Content-review rubrics covering accuracy, relevance, clarity, and completeness

Participants can create realistic AI-assisted scenarios that develop workplace decision skills.

  • Critical incident method for capturing consequential workplace decisions
  • Branching scenario structures with choices, consequences, and feedback
  • Case facts calibrated for realism without exposing confidential information
  • Distractor design based on common errors and plausible misconceptions
  • Feedback scripts explaining consequences, standards, and better decisions
  • Scenario review for bias, stereotyping, ambiguity, and operational accuracy

Participants can create valid assessments and quality-check AI-generated items.

  • Assessment blueprints linking objectives, content domains, and item formats
  • Selected-response items testing discrimination rather than simple recall
  • Constructed-response rubrics with observable criteria and scoring anchors
  • Item-writing rules addressing stems, options, clues, and distractors
  • AI-generated question review for validity, ambiguity, and factual correctness
  • Standard-setting considerations for high-consequence learning assessments

Participants can adapt AI-assisted learning materials for accessibility, inclusion and local relevance.

  • WCAG 2.2 principles applied to digital learning content
  • Alt text, captions, transcripts, and readable document structures
  • Inclusive language checks for assumptions, stereotypes, and exclusionary phrasing
  • Localisation review covering terminology, examples, dates, and legal references
  • Reading-level analysis matched to learner language and task requirements
  • Human review of translations for meaning, tone, and technical precision

Participants can use AI to prepare facilitators and support learners within defined boundaries.

  • Facilitator guides generated from validated session objectives and timings
  • Question banks supporting checks for understanding during live delivery
  • AI-assisted coaching prompts for reflection, practice, and action planning
  • Learner-support boundaries for advice, escalation, and sensitive disclosures
  • Virtual classroom scripts balancing explanation, interaction, and practice
  • Facilitator review procedures before using generated discussion questions

Participants can define responsible personalisation rules for differentiated learning support.

  • Learner segmentation using role, proficiency, performance, and preference evidence
  • Diagnostic assessments identifying starting points and targeted learning paths
  • Recommendation rules separating helpful adaptation from discriminatory profiling
  • Mastery criteria for progression, remediation, and additional practice
  • Data-minimisation principles for learner profiles and behavioural records
  • Human intervention triggers for repeated failure or learner distress

Participants can specify useful learning data and interpret it responsibly for improvement decisions.

  • xAPI statement structure using actor, verb, object, and context
  • Learning metrics distinguishing activity, completion, proficiency, and performance
  • Dashboard questions linked to decisions rather than available data
  • Data-quality checks for missing records, duplicates, and inconsistent definitions
  • Cohort comparisons interpreted with context, sample limits, and fairness checks
  • Analytics action logs documenting decisions, owners, and follow-up measures

Participants can build an evaluation plan that tests learning effectiveness and business contribution.

  • Kirkpatrick levels aligned with outcomes, evidence sources, and timing
  • Success measures defined before development begins and communicated to sponsors
  • Transfer-of-learning plans involving managers, workflow cues, and reinforcement
  • Comparison methods using baseline, follow-up, and matched performance data
  • Contribution analysis separating training effects from operational changes
  • Evaluation reports combining learner evidence, performance data, and recommendations

Participants can evaluate AI tools and vendors against L&D requirements, risk controls and operating fit.

  • Vendor due-diligence questions covering security, data retention, and model training
  • Use-case scorecards comparing capability, cost, risk, and implementation effort
  • Integration requirements for learning platforms, identity systems, and content repositories
  • Pilot success criteria covering quality, adoption, time, and error rates
  • Contract clauses addressing data ownership, confidentiality, and audit access
  • Exit plans for vendor changes, service interruption, and content portability

Participants can plan controlled adoption of AI-supported processes within an L&D function.

  • Operating models defining content owners, reviewers, approvers, and administrators
  • Standard operating procedures for prompting, review, approval, and publication
  • Change-impact assessments for L&D roles, skills, and workload distribution
  • Pilot roadmaps sequencing use cases by value, risk, and readiness
  • Communications plans explaining permitted uses, controls, and support routes
  • Adoption measures tracking usage, confidence, quality, and policy compliance

Participants can establish repeatable quality assurance for AI-generated learning assets and decisions.

  • Quality gates from source selection through publication and post-launch review
  • Review checklists for factual accuracy, instructional quality, and accessibility
  • Red-team tests exposing unsafe, biased, or misleading generated outputs
  • Sampling plans balancing review effort with content risk and volume
  • Defect logs categorising errors, causes, corrective actions, and recurrence
  • Continuous-improvement cycles using learner feedback and quality findings

Participants can communicate AI learning proposals, controls and decisions to business stakeholders.

  • Business cases linking learning problems, AI use cases, costs, and benefits
  • Executive briefings presenting risk, controls, decisions, and required sponsorship
  • AI-use policies defining permitted, prohibited, and approval-required activities
  • Manager guidance for reinforcing AI-supported learning after formal training
  • Subject-matter expert agreements for source validation and content sign-off
  • Incident communications for inaccurate content, data exposure, or learner harm

Participants can integrate analysis, prompts, learning design and governance into a documented solution draft.

  • Problem statements connecting business goals, performance gaps, and learner groups
  • Design assumptions tested against stakeholder evidence and available source material
  • Prompt sequences producing traceable drafts for selected learning assets
  • Learning blueprints specifying objectives, modalities, practice, and transfer support
  • Governance controls matched to data sensitivity and decision consequences
  • Peer review against agreed quality, risk, and implementation criteria

Participants can build, review and present a complete AI-assisted learning solution for a defined workplace performance need.

  • Needs-analysis brief defining performance problem, audience, evidence, and constraints
  • Learning architecture combining objectives, modalities, practice, and reinforcement
  • Prompt library producing controlled drafts from approved source materials
  • Assessment blueprint with item formats, review controls, and success criteria
  • AI governance plan covering privacy, accuracy, bias, copyright, and approvals
  • Evaluation plan linking xAPI evidence, Kirkpatrick levels, and business measures
  • Stakeholder presentation defending design choices, controls, costs, and expected outcomes

Exercises and examples are adapted to each cohort's sectors and roles.

What you take back to work

  1. AI task suitability matrix
  2. Structured L&D prompt library
  3. AI-assisted learning design blueprint
  4. Generated-content quality review checklist
  5. AI governance and approval plan
  6. Kirkpatrick and xAPI evaluation plan

Who should attend

  • Learning and Development Manager — needs to set responsible AI-enabled learning priorities
  • Instructional Designer — needs faster, controlled methods for developing learning assets
  • Corporate Trainer — needs AI-supported materials and learner engagement techniques
  • Learning Experience Designer — needs to design personalised, measurable learning journeys
  • HR Business Partner — needs to translate workforce needs into targeted learning interventions
  • Subject-Matter Expert — needs to review AI-generated training content for accuracy

Skills and tools covered

AI learning designPrompt engineeringLearning governanceAssessment designLearning analyticsAI risk controls

Tools and standards

ADDIE, Kirkpatrick Model, xAPI, NIST AI Risk Management Framework

How the course runs

Training methodology

The course uses short instructor briefings to introduce methods, followed by demonstrations of AI-supported L&D workflows. Participants analyse realistic cases, compare generated outputs against quality criteria, and work in groups on needs analysis, prompt design, learning architecture and governance decisions. Simulations address inaccurate content, sensitive-data requests and assessment failures. Individual application planning helps participants adapt each method to a live workplace requirement. Instructor feedback is provided on the design pack developed throughout the programme.

Requirements and prerequisites

Participants should have practical experience designing, delivering, commissioning or managing workplace learning. Familiarity with learning objectives, facilitator-led training, e-learning or performance support is expected. Participants should be able to discuss a current learning challenge from their own organisation and work with common office applications. Prior experience using generative AI is helpful but not required; the course introduces prompt structure and safe-use practices from first principles. No programming, data science, model-building or advanced statistical knowledge is required.

A typical training day

08:30 – 10:30First session
10:30 – 10:45Refreshment break
10:45 – 12:30Second session
12:30 – 13:30Lunch and networking
13:30 – 15:00Third session
15:00 – 15:15Refreshment break
15:15 – 16:30Workshop and daily review

Live online deliveries follow the same structure in East Africa Time, with shorter screen blocks and longer breaks.

What the fee includes

  • Instruction by a practitioner facilitator
  • Full course workbook and materials
  • Exercise files, templates and case studies
  • Refreshments and lunch on classroom deliveries
  • Certificate of completion
  • Post-course application plan

Frequently asked questions

Participants should already understand the basics of workplace learning, such as learning objectives, facilitation, instructional design or programme management. No coding, data science or prior generative AI experience is required.

Bring a laptop and, where permitted, a current learning challenge, anonymised source materials or a draft programme brief. Do not bring confidential learner data, regulated customer information or restricted internal documents.

The course is designed for L&D managers, instructional designers, trainers, learning experience designers, HR partners and subject-matter experts. It is most useful for people who create, review, commission or govern workplace learning.

This course focuses on the specific decisions involved in workplace learning: needs analysis, instructional design, assessment, facilitation, learning data and evaluation. It also addresses quality assurance, accessibility, privacy and governance for learning assets.

Participants build a design pack for a live or realistic learning requirement throughout the programme. The included templates can be adapted for content development, review workflows, AI policy discussions and pilot planning.

Each training day runs from 08:30 to 16:30 and provides about 6.5 contact hours. The first part establishes methods and produces working drafts; the second part develops governance, analytics, implementation planning and the capstone presentation.

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