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Using AI in Instructional Design

From lesson plans to rubrics to generated graphics — hundreds of ways AI can supercharge your course design workflow.

AI can be a fantastic tool for instructional design. From developing lesson plans, creating outlines for a class syllabus, designing rubrics, providing directions, generating graphics, and helping with HTML, there are hundreds of potential uses!

Examples of AI Generated Content

These are some examples of how I've used AI in some of my class presentations.

Example: Sociologists Animated

We may be able to have avatars of our early theorists deliver lectures on their theories. Click any image to see a larger version.

Emile Durkheim animated
Emile Durkheim
Max Weber animated
Max Weber
Karl Marx animated
Karl Marx
Edwin Sutherland animated
Edwin Sutherland
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Example: Writing a Course Description

For Sociol 2380: Intersectionalities and Crime — I've always hated writing course descriptions and asked ChatGPT for help.

My Course Description

This course examines the influence of intersectionalities, including dimensions of race, class, gender and gender identity, sexual orientation, and immigration status along with other dimensions of privilege and disadvantage and their relationships to criminality, victimization, and processing within the criminal legal system.

My ChatGPT Prompt

Write an introduction to the syllabus for an undergraduate course on criminology that focuses on race, class, gender, and intersectionality.

ChatGPT Response

Welcome to our undergraduate course on criminology, with a focus on the intersections of race, class, gender, and other social identities. In this course, we will explore the ways in which these factors influence the experience of crime and criminal justice...

It's OK, but I think I'll keep my original course description.

Example: Writing a Song

I asked ChatGPT to write a song for my Goldendoodle dog, Kkami.

ChatGPT generated poem about Kkami the Goldendoodle Kkami the dog

I felt like the song needed something more to it, so I added the last line at the end. It made the song seem a bit more... human.

Suno Song Example

I asked Suno to create a song about Travis Hirschi's Social Bond Theory. It might make a good homework assignment — have students identify the elements of the social bond in the lyrics.

Listen Here

Example: Generating Art

I asked Midjourney to create an avant-garde high-end 1920s menswear portrait.

Midjourney generated 1920s menswear portraits
Note: these suits aren't particularly avant-garde, and the portraits all include very young, thin, white men.

I asked Midjourney to create a portrait of Snow White as an alien aboard a cyberpunk spaceship:

Midjourney Snow White cyberpunk
Note: this is not particularly cyberpunk, nor is it Snow White aboard a spaceship.

Image Generation to Represent Bias

When prompted to generate an image of a doctor and a nurse, and a lawyer and a paralegal:

AI generated images showing gender bias in doctor/nurse and lawyer/paralegal roles

Fantastic Presentations on AI in Instructional Design