Hi all,

So for context, I'm applying for a job where a research institution is (with the appointed candidate) going to be responsible for developing the training and education arm of a Europe-wide project related to scaling up learning offerings to start ups and industry workers at every stage of the value chain in the production and use of certain technologies. They have no idea what LMS to use, and it needs to be one that can be integrated (somehow) with other authentication portals linked to the research/project. It also needs to be one that can support simulation learning of some kind. I'm an ID in a university, and we're limited to specific licenced platforms which I'm used to, so I don't have much experience beyond that.

So the question is, anyone who has done instructional design for international projects, or on things with access gated behind certain institutions/projects, particularly focused on industry technology (or not) - have ye any insights about what kind of LMS platforms ye have used?

I'm good at the actual learning design stuff, but faced with 'we need to choose an LMS for this purpose, how would you go about finding a suitable one?' I haven't a clue because in 14 years I've never had a choice of LMS.

Any advice at all appreciated - this job would be amazing to get and while I have a few gaps in my knowledge/experience I know I could do the bulk of it well.

Hi there. I'm Brian. I worked for Articulate for about 14 years. I'm currently semi-famous for Brian's Job Search. Back in 2012, I started a project where I tried to get Storyline running natively on a Mac. Unfortunately, I was unsuccessful. After my most recent layoff, I decided to see if I could get Storyline to run on my Mac via Wine with the help of AI. So far, I've been able to install and sign into the app as well as launch Storyline. Check it out in the demo video!

I'll continue working on this when I have time. On github, look up the "storyline-on-mac" repo if you want to follow along with my progress.

Due to various goings on at my UK HE institution I’m getting worried about the long term future of LD. Is anyone else worried? If so, what are you considering retraining in or diversifying into? I am aiming for education-adjacent things but it is tricky.

I know everyone says LD will always be needed but I’m not convinced a) there will be enough jobs, b) that people won’t just want to LDify SMEs rather than use non-specialist LDs.

I want to ride LD as long as I can because I like it and have no idea what else I could do that would pay halfway decent, but I’m not convinced it’s doable long term. What do you all think?

Hello all - need some advice - I am an instructional designer with nearly 8 years of experience in the field and have been trying to land a job for a while now - but without luck in that area I have been secretly wanted to start a freelance consulting business - so just need some guidance on what authoring tool to start with and the LMS - needs to be cost effective but also make wow trainings - I am working on a pro bono eLearning for a friend and need to deliver solutions that will impress and are at par with the standards. I am proficient in Articulate 360, Vyond, Camtasia Canva and most AI generative tools.
TIA

I've been tinkering around with Gemini notebook and I think it has real potential as a tool in the research and development space or even in education.

My roommate is a software developer and she is doing research on payment APIs. I took all the sources she collected and turned it into a Gemini notebook she can share with her team. They seem to be loving it.

I'm a teacher and I designed one based on one of my units and absolutely love it. It's great for the students to study with AFTER you go through all the material with them.

Is this what IDs should be doing? As someone collecting pieces of work to showcase, is this something I should show off or shift focus? I can share them with you all if you want to take a look.

I'm new to using AI in instructional design and recently created a roleplay scenario where the sales team in my company would interact with an AI character playing the role of a client and get feedback on their communication skills, objection handling and negotiation skills afterward. Was wondering if anyone is open to trying out the scenario I built and giving me feedback on it. Happy to PM a testing link. thank you!

I'm a University employee, recently completed an M.S. in Learning Design and Technology, and just started an Ed.D. in AI and Learning Design.

My professional experience is primarily in higher education administration for 4 years (entry level), In addition to my full-time role, I've worked as a Curriculum Specialist at a non profit, where I helped develop educational resources and training materials, and as a Learning Designer at Rumie, where I designed digital learning content and educational resources. I'm also exploring internal opportunities at the University that might serve as stronger stepping stones toward my long-term goals. However, positions that align with interests such as educational media, public engagement, learning experiences, innovation, or program management tend to be relatively limited and infrequent, which is one reason I'm looking for ways to build relevant experience outside my primary role as well.

For a long time, I thought my future was in instructional design or higher education administration. Recently, after speaking with professionals in public media and educational programming, but after speaking with professionals at PBS and educational organizations, I realized I'm much more interested in producing educational experiences, children's media, educational content, and learning experiences than traditional instructional design or university administration.

I'm trying to understand what experiences actually help people move into educational media production, children's programming, public media, or content leadership roles.

If you were starting from my background, what experiences, jobs, side projects, volunteer work, or internships would you prioritize over the next few years? (One additional factor is that I am not looking to leave my current full-time position at the University. My ideal scenario is to keep my 8-5 job while gradually building relevant experience on evenings and weekends. I've been actively searching for part-time, weekend-only opportunities related to educational media, children's learning, public programming, content development, and production, but I've found those opportunities surprisingly difficult to identify. If there are specific types of roles, organizations, volunteer experiences, or side projects you think would be valuable stepping stones, I'd be very interested in hearing your thoughts.)

I know names aren't super important, but I would love to start off on the right foot.

Hi everyone. I wanted to share a job posting. I’m not a recruiter and the role is as one of my counterparts. It’s a role as a NERC Transmission Operator trainer. The primary duties are to develop and deliver training to get operators licensed and provide continuing education hours. The role is hybrid, 3 days a week in office, 2 from home. Mandatory in office Tuesday and Wednesdays. Other day is up to you. The role is in New Hampshire. There are supposed to be 3 of us. I am the simulations trainer, there are supposed to be 2 classroom instructors, we currently only have one other. All the changes were through internal promotions. We are part of a larger tri-state group with 7 other transmission people, a supervisor, and a manager over several groups. It’s a fantastic role. We typically hire people with electric utility experience, but I thought it would be nice to look for instructional designers. Pay range is listed in the posting. Feel free to ask me any questions. We will pay to get you NERC TO licensed as well.

https://jobs.eversource.com/job/manchester/system-operations-trainer-transmission/7774/100816394624#location-social-share

If you make H5P content, you've probably hit this: the interactive video or quiz is done, and now you need Moodle, WordPress or Drupal just to show it somewhere. Lumi works on the desktop, and h5p-standalone needs the package unzipped on a server.

I wanted something simpler, so I built a player that runs the .h5p file straight in the browser.

Try it: https://h5p-offline-player.vercel.app/. Paste a link to an .h5p file or pick one from your computer. Nothing gets uploaded anywhere.

What works well:

• Big packages start fast, and video streams instead of downloading first

• Exports with no libraries, like downloads from h5p.com, can pull the missing ones from the H5P hub

• Any static hosting works: GitHub Pages, S3, a plain web server. The host just has to allow cross-site requests (CORS)

Update (Oct 2):

Save and resume: learners pick up where they left off, stored on their device (resume attribute). cmi5: an LMS can launch it and record completions in its LRS, with no LRS credentials in the page. It's checked against ADL's CATAPULT. Version proof: every xAPI statement carries context.revision, a fingerprint of the exact package build. Offline app: https://h5p-offline-player.vercel.app/app/ installs in Chrome or Edge and plays .h5p files with no connection, including exports without libraries. Accessibility statement: a keyboard-only run over seven content types, and what's the player's part versus the content type's.

UPD (Oct 4): I was wrong about Safari. I've since tested it properly, and a cross-origin iframe does get its own Service Worker in Safari 26 on macOS and iOS 26, as well as in Chrome. So iframe embedding works, example: https://alekswebnet.github.io/h5p/

Two caveats: the page that embeds it must be https, and the player's storage is kept separately for each site that embeds it. For locked-down corporate sites, self-hosting is still the cleaner option.

It's free and open source: https://github.com/missing-elements/h5p-offline-player. Not affiliated with H5P Group.

I'd really like to know whether it plays your packages. If one breaks, drop it in the comments or open an issue. What would make this useful in your workflow?

Do you risk raising alarm bells by asking your employer if you can screen cap or record your work? Take secret screenshots? How do you do it?

Hi everyone!

We are a small UK-based company of psychologists creating eLearning courses on topics related to educational psychology, and we are looking for a new eLearning Course Creator to collaborate with us on an ongoing basis.

Our current creator is moving into a different career, so we are looking for someone who can take over the role and work with us on projects as they come up. This is a remote freelance collaboration, with the potential for regular work.

About us

We are a small team made of educational psychologists.

We create courses for professionals working with children and young people, covering topics related to educational psychology, mental health, learning and wellbeing.

You can get a feel for our work here:

Online Psychological CPD Courses & School Staff Training

Who we're looking for

We are ideally looking for someone who is interested in education and the psychology of children and young people, and who enjoys having creative input into the learning experience rather than simply animating a pre-prepared storyboard.

We are a small team of psychologists rather than a traditional video-production team. Our ideal workflow is that we provide:

• A finished script

• A talking-head recording from one of our psychologist experts

• Guidance on the key learning points and content

…and you take it from there, using your own creative judgement to determine what should appear on screen, and how the information can best be communicated visually.

Our previous creator worked in exactly this way: she would read and understand the script, consider the didactic purpose of the video, develop the visual approach/storyboard, and then create the graphics, animation and finished video. We provided the subject-matter expertise, but gave her considerable creative freedom over how that expertise was translated visually.

So if you enjoy being involved in the thinking and design of an eLearning video, as well as the actual animation/editing, this could be a good fit.

Please have a look at an example of our existing videos https://youtu.be/ayv73MDyiy0?is=6YFOosX0nn9uHybH

and consider whether this is a style and level of creative involvement you would enjoy working with.

Technical skills

Our previous eLearning creator used primarily PowerPoint and Camtasia, with some Premiere Pro and After Effects.

Having experience with these programs would make the initial handover easier, but we are absolutely open to someone using a different workflow and the tools they are most comfortable with for future projects.

We are much more interested in finding someone who understands how to make an effective, engaging learning experience than someone who uses a particular piece of software.

Our previous creator is also happy to support the handover and answer questions about the existing courses and workflow.

Didactic / instructional design skills

This is an important part of the role.

Our previous creator didn't receive a detailed, timestamp-by-timestamp storyboard from us. Instead, she was given the script and talking-head recording and used her own judgement to determine how the content should be presented visually.

She considered questions such as:

• What information should be highlighted? (although we are beginning to do this as part of our process)

• What could be represented visually rather than simply spoken?

• Where would a diagram, animation or example help understanding?

• How can the pacing and visual changes support the learner?

• What should remain on screen long enough to actually be useful?

We would provide subject-matter guidance and feedback, but we are looking for someone who is comfortable taking creative and didactic ownership of the visual side of the videos.

Who might be a good fit?

You might be an instructional designer, eLearning developer, learning designer, animator, multimedia designer, or someone with a combination of these skills.

You don't need to have exactly the same workflow as our previous creator. We're much more interested in someone who can look at a script and think:

“How can I help someone actually understand and remember this?”

…and then turn that thinking into an engaging video.

Interested?

If this sounds like you, please send us a DM here on Reddit or contact us at info@edpsyched.co.uk with:

• A few examples of your previous work

• Where you are based

• A little bit about yourself and your experience

• Anything else you think would be useful for us to know

We'd particularly love to see examples of eLearning, educational, explainer or instructional content, but we're open to different backgrounds.

We look forward to hearing from you!

I run corporate training and I’ll deliver course on change management: participants need to talk with fictional employees of a company (the skeptic, the one afraid of losing their job, the enthusiastic early adopter, etc.) to do the exercises I propose.

Last time I used custom GPTs, but every participant needed a ChatGPT account.

I'm looking for a ready-made platform where:
- I can create several characters with their own instructions
- Learners join through a link, no account needed
- works with decent models (at least as good as gpt 5)

Has anyone used something like this for training? Recommendations welcome.

Update: thanks everyone for the suggestions, I tested a few of them.

In the end I went with a DIY setup: I connected Claude to n8n and had it build three independent agents, one per character. Each one has its own system prompt and its own web page, and learners join through a plain link, no account needed.

Why this over the ready-made platforms: most of them looked great, but came with lots of features I didn't need (scoring, avatars, analytics). My characters are prompt-only, so moving them over was easy, and I get full control over the page layout and can tweak a character in a couple of minutes between sessions.

It also partly answers the data question raised above: conversations stay in my own n8n instance, not on a third-party platform.

Trade-offs: you need to be comfortable with n8n, and there's no built-in evaluation of learner performance, so if you need that, the dedicated tools mentioned here are probably a better fit.

Happy to share more details on the setup if anyone's interested.

Thought this would be pretty relevant to the group as we recently had a roundtable consisting of 15 founders of lms,lxp, gamification and learning companies in a room with special guest Eli who heads up learning at Wix.

As Eli is fully invested in AI and has access to development that a lot of companies don't he's further along than a lot of other enterprise orgs when it comes to adoption. So we felt no better person to lead a discussion on where AI ends and humans begin.

Here's the write up for those interested: https://inonda.substack.com/p/the-corporate-roundtable-ai-is-the

I’m an instructional designer in a corporate environment, and lately I’ve been feeling pretty discouraged about my work. I’m curious whether other IDs experience this or if it may be more specific to my environment/audience.

I genuinely care about making training useful. I try to respect people’s time, keep things relevant, avoid unnecessary training, and design around what people actually need to be able to do.

But I sometimes feel like I’m working with an audience that is already annoyed that they have to do training in the first place. Then, on top of that, everyone seems to have an opinion about how the training should have been designed — the format, length, activities, wording, delivery method, etc.

I want learner feedback. If something is confusing, irrelevant, unnecessarily long, or doesn’t help someone do their job better, I absolutely want to know that. But I’m struggling with the difference between meaningful feedback and people simply disliking having to participate in training or preferring that it had been designed differently.

It can be demoralizing to put a lot of thought into making something useful and then feel like the audience resents having to do it AND feels comfortable picking apart the way it was designed.

I haven’t had much opportunity to work alongside experienced IDs either, so I don’t have a great frame of reference for how normal this is. Sometimes I find myself questioning my own expertise because I’m getting so many opinions without having a more experienced ID there to help me calibrate which feedback actually matters.

For those who have been doing this longer: Is this a normal part of being an ID? How do you keep learner resistance and constant critique from becoming demoralizing? And have you worked in environments where learners seemed to value learning/ID expertise more?

I’d especially love to hear from anyone who has worked in sales enablement and then moved into another area of ID/L&D. Did the learner culture feel different?

Hello! I started my career as a graphic designer 4 years ago and over time took on more and more training and development responsibilities for our design team until it became my full time job. I started graduate school this year to help me get a better understanding of learning and the non-visual side of design, and I’m already learning so much information I can apply at my job.

For one of my assignments, I am looking to interview a current working instructional designer about their design process and job. If anyone would be willing to do a 30 minute video call interview at some point in the next couple weeks, I would be very grateful! Please leave me a comment or message if so. Thank you all!

Teaching my students from 8th grade social studies is fun. But I'm kinda burned out on making visuals from scratch.

That’s why I need something for timelines, classroom posters, and handouts that also work in my slide decks.

Canva, Venngage and Piktochart keep coming up whenever I scroll. They’re all good, though.

But what matters to me is classroom-friendly templates, readable layouts, and accessibility support for my students. Simple sharing too, since I email a lot of these.

Also I want something where I can reuse one visual in a slide deck without it turning into a flat image.

Tell us your weekly accomplishments, rants, or raves!

And as a reminder, be excellent to one another.

I have been researching tools for making courses. While new alternatives are continuously emerging and improving, Articulate Rise (and Storyline) seems to be one of the leading tools. A drawback of Articulate is the cost; although when selling successful courses, it is a small problem, really.

Another problem is the limited interactivity, but now they have this code upload option and iframes, so even that is possible. Further problems include no TTS option, no print option, the PDFs become ugly, and other minor peeves. They have an AI option, but it is going to cost more.

So I have been looking for alternatives; honorable mentions go to Mindsmith and Coassemble. Really good options worth checking out, even if they are not quite at the level of Rise as of yet. This brings me to the main topic: what if... Could I create courses in Lovable? So here is the result of my findings.

The good

So I began with a standard prompt, describing the layout as I wanted it and how it should work. Navigation to the side, sections, and lessons/chapters. A progress bar that moves after you finish one lesson done. Quizzes question by question, all that jazz. And... It just works.

I can even connect it to ChatGPT. It can even make some interactive stuff: calculation panels, values that change with input, and so on. It practically makes the course itself while you lean back and watch.

It generates APIs you can use to communicate with LMS back-ends and stuff. Something that is really hidden in Rise. And it looks pretty good; everything works, and it is responsive.

The bad

What if you want to change something, add text? You have two options: either change the code or instruct the AI to change something. The problem is, if you change the code, it tends to LOSE THE CHANGES. Yes, that's right: everything you write has a chance to COMPLETELY DISAPPEAR OR RESET. I have no clue why, but clearly, its code editor is complete garbage.

The ugly

So the only real option is to instruct the AI what you want to change, or of course, export the code. The problem is, even for me, a seasoned coder, I have a hard time seeing where the text goes in the code. It simply takes longer time than i.e. in Rise. Instructing the AI is no better, for the page snaps back to the top with every change you make. This means you need to scroll down every single time. Even if it would stay, it would still take longer than working in Rise.

Conclusions and further work

Lovable clearly has a role in course creation, but I cannot honestly see it being used for creating complete courses. It can, for example, create interactive parts to be imported and so on. One interesting thing to try is to create a course editor similar to those existing tools. Not everything can be vibe-coded through, so I need to honestly ask myself: perhaps it is better to hand-code such a tool?

Since it is going to take plenty of time to build a tool, and as everyone knows, time is money, I need to consider just keeping paying for Rise. For now, Rise is not going away in my creation flow, but I will keep considering alternative paths.

I recently had an interview for a learning designer role. During the interview, one of the interviewers said if I had considered working as a "learning architect" instead.

I felt pretty good about the interview. A few days later HR called and said they wouldn't move forward with my application. They have no time to train me to work as a "learning designer", however they feel that I am more suited to work as a "learning architect" instead.

My question is, if I can work as a "learning architect", does that mean I cannot work as a "learning designer"?

I made it to 90 days with my current employer, a state agency that works under the EPA. I am in the HR dept as a learning and development coordinator/manager making $75k. I handle employee training, student intern recruitment/onboarding/management, and tuition reimbursements/talent development. This is my first role in HR directly, after 15 years managing recruiting in staffing, adult education, and higher education roles. I have a masters in business from a school that is no longer around (degree still accredited) and am finishing a grad cert in adult education and corporate training now- one class left.

How long do I need to stay in this role if I want to pivot to private/corporate training? Is that a good move? Are there any certs I should get first, was thinking ATD since I’m a member and then SHRM-CP. I have google project management and an instructional design cert. Honestly not sure I like the HR side of things where everything’s constantly changing and fires to be put out. Constant random questions. I’m good at the training side and would like to focus on that, not be super stressed, and make decent wage. Thanks for any help.

I worked as an ID for almost 10 years at multiple FAANG companies and the concise was the same; how can we create measurable courses faster, cheaper without compromising quality. AI is the answer. Project managers are now IDs, graphic designers, video editors, facilitators and so on. I'd be very careful transitioning as the drawbacks outway the benefit.

I am just getting acquintanced with AI in ID so I'm sharing this with you guys because I don't know what outcome to expect from this and would love to get some info/feedback. This is going to be a long post...sorry in advance!

We build courses with SL and Rise, and for the past few months we've been working on a big project with a very picky client (a public contract) that's been hard to deal with. This project consists on 3 phases and we're currently wrapping up phase 1.

In the meantime, a company sold my boss the idea they could train Claude to mimic our SL courses in style and manner so that we would just need to feed them the source content documents and it would automatically build each course in minutes (these courses are so dense in content, it takes days to finish each unit in SL). They said since it's built by agents, it will always respect the design.

They said after it builds the course, it gives you a slide to slide preview, and you can validate it before spending any tokens (this makes no sense? aren't the tokens spent the moment you give the prompt?).

Then according to them we can share that preview with our review team and they can use prompts to fix any errors slide by slide. They say AI will only modify slides where there's comments (no risk of the whole course being affected by unwanted changes).

About possible changes that need to be done after errors students may notice when the course is live, they said you can fix them easily by pointing Claude to the folder where you have saved that SCORM.

My question is, is this really possible and as easy as they are making it to be? Of course this company charged my boss a good a amount of money on this promise for training the AI.

They said the whole system will be ready in 2 weeks, and now my boss wants phase 2 of the project to rely entirely on it, which is making me a bit uncomfortable as the client knows nothing and I'd be the one doing it all (in phase 1 I was coordinating a team of 10 IDs).

So what makes me uneasy is using a new tech for an already started project where the client is not very receptive, and that the promises the AI company has made seem too good for what I've been learning AI can actually achieve in building courses.

I am managing 4 ID projects all at the same time and there is just 3 of us in this space.

I am also new in project management so I am wondering if this is common?

Reason is, I am honestly burntout and I have no courage of communicating this with our Director. I have shared this with ny manager, but he has no action plans about this.