Integrating AI into the Learning Experience
Your learner might not say it out loud, but they are using artificial intelligence while taking your course to summarize, to rewrite, to answer faster. And while we have been focused on creating great content, AI has quietly become part of the learning experience. So the question isn’t if it’s happening, the question is what do we do about it? As course creators. If you are building an online course right now, it’s worth asking, how are your learners already using AI while learning from you? And how can you design lessons that meet them where they are by weaving in tools that support how people are already thinking, practicing, and solving problems using AI. We’re going to explore three AI tools you can use inside your online course lessons to create richer, more interactive learning without needing to rebuild your course or become an AI expert.
Tool 1: Yoodli – AI Speech Coach
Yoodli, which is an AI speech coach. Yoodli gives your learners a way to practice speaking while getting feedback without needing to roleplay live in a workshop or in a Zoom breakout room. It simulates a one-to-one coaching experience, perfect for any course where learners need to build real world communication skills such as public speaking, client conversations, sale pitches, interviews, or even onboarding scripts. Yoodli uses AI to analyze speech and give feedback on tone, pacing, filler words, clarity, and body language. It helps your learners become more aware of how they sound and how they come across before applying these skills in real life. After a lesson, you can prompt learners to complete realistic speaking scenarios using Yoodli.
Practical Speaking Scenarios
In a sales course, use a scenario such as, “You’ve just finished your product demo. Now, practice a closing pitch to the client.” In a public speaking course, you can use an example such as introduce yourself and explain why you are passionate about in and insert your course topic in under 90 seconds. In a coaching or counseling course, you can use an example such as respond to a client who’s just told you that they feel stuck and unmotivated. From Yoodli, learners will receive automatic feedback on things like filler words, pacing, clarity, and more. It helps them refine their delivery without needing a live coach or peer review.
Learner Perspective Demo
In this customer support call example, Mike is going to ask a few questions. Hi there, I’m Mike and I’m calling because I’m interested in learning more about your products. Can you tell me why I should consider buying from you? Hi Mike, thanks for calling. Great question. Why should you consider buying from the Stellaway? Well, we are experts in online course creation and we have worked with hundreds of course creators to help them build their online courses. And we’ve got great results as well. Like we’ve mentioned in a previous video, you can take a look at how we helped Wanda to build her course. I don’t really care about Wanda’s course, to be honest. I need to know what makes your company better than your competitors.
Handling Challenging Interactions
What specific benefits would I get from working with you? Okay. Well, that’s what I would like to explain by working with our clients. By working with our clients, how we can help you is that we’re able to support you in selling online courses and making an income, a passive income without having to work one-on-one with your clients. That sounds pretty generic. I mean, isn’t that what all course creation platforms do? What makes your company different from the others I’ve been looking at? Good question. We work with you one-on-one to help you build a course curriculum. We’re going to push back on things that we feel are generic. We’re going to help you to build a learning experience that’s like no other. So, we actually walk through from a background of instructional design.
Analysis and Instant Feedback
We help you build a learning experience that’s going to help your customers create a new skill. and we’re going to support them and support you to build a learning journey, not just something that is a placeholder for all of your content. Instructional design sounds interesting, but what about the cost? I’ve heard some companies charge an arm. You can end the role play at any point and then you can save and view analysis. And so in this area here, it’s going to be then analyzing our conversation, mostly my points about Mike’s question, and it’s going to give me instant feedback. See how great that was from a student’s perspective that it’s allowing them to jump right into a scenario, whatever scenario it might be.
and it’s providing them with instant feedback on what they can improve on in their communication styles. This is excellent because it doesn’t require you to be there for every single session. So you’re not having to give onetoone feedback to all of your students, but it is allowing you to still provide that same benefit and the same impact.
Tool 2: Synthesia – AI Video Avatar for Microlearning
Tool number two is Synthesia. And this is a AI video avatar for scenarios and for microlearning. Synthesia lets you create short AI generated videos using AI avatars. So there is no need for filming or editing. But where I really see the value in this is scenario-based learning, especially where you want to simulate a situation without needing to have actors or editing of videos.
High-Impact Scenario-Based Learning
So rather than using just static images or characters, what you might have seen before, AI generated videos are a lowcost way to bring your scenarios to life. It’s ideal for courses that involve role plays, decision-making activities, or real life interactions. So you can use Synthesia to deliver micro scenarios that mirror what learners face in real life. It gives them a chance to observe a scenario, analyze that scenario, and decide how they would respond. Here are three examples of how you can use Synthesia in your course. Show a customer complaint and ask how would you respond to this message. Simulate a team meeting with mixed priorities and ask, “What’s your next move as project lead?” Create a peer feedback scenario and ask, “What would you say and what would you avoid?”
Synthesia Learner Demo
Notice how all of these are scenarios that you can create where your learner is required to choose a response. And we’re going to give them instant feedback about their response. So, they’ve got this opportunity to be able to practice and apply their skills in a very lowrisk environment. We haven’t created a scenario-based learning here, but we have created a short video that’s actually the introduction to this video so that you can see what it looks like using an AI avatar with a script. Your learner might not say it out loud, but they are using artificial intelligence while taking your course to summarize, to rewrite, to answer faster.
Enhancing Expert Content with AI
And while we have been focused on creating great content, AI has quietly become part of the learning experience. So the question isn’t if it’s happening, the question is what do we do about it as course creators. So you can see here that this is clearly AI. There are some little changes that I can make to the script to help with the lip movements. There’s also other avatars that we can use. You can also create an own avatar, your own avatar with your own voice. It’s great. Now I mentioned that this is really great for scenario- based learning because I don’t feel that this could replace your entire course videos. I do agree that you need to be in those videos. It’s your expertise, but I can see the benefit of using this AI in particular situations within your course such as scenario- based learning like I’ve already explained.
Tool 3: Quizgecko – AI-Generated Quizzes from Content
Tool number three is called Quiz Gecko. It’s an AI generated quizzes from your course content. Quiz Gecko turns any piece of content, a text lesson, article or video transcript, even a YouTube video into a quiz, flashcards, or a podcast automatically. It’s great for quick comprehension checks that you can embed directly into your course platform or into your LMS. What makes this different from traditional quizzes is that it saves you time and adapts to what you have already created. So you don’t have to go through and create every single question. And learners get immediate feedback as well, which reinforces learning on the spot. After a video or an article in your course, add an embedded autogenerated quiz gecko quiz to help learners check their understanding. You can also include an optional reflection such as which question surprised you?
Quizgecko Learner Demo
which ones would you like to revisit? So adding these questions in as well and these reflections in on the quiz really helps to embed it even further. I’ve used one of my videos and I’ve just inserted the link to create quiz and flashcards. We’re going to look at what it looks like from the learner’s perspective. We’ve got a quiz gecko quiz and quiz gecko flashcards. I’ve already started this quiz, so we’re up to number two of 19 questions. What I want to show you is that this was automatically generated. You can choose different types of quizzes. I’ve selected to have a multiple option quiz. You can select true and false. You can choose fill in the blanks.
Interactive Comprehension Checks
There’s lots of different options that you can choose for your course depending on what you’re looking for, depends on many things, but I’ve just chosen this one for example. So, we’ve got a question. How does knowing what motivates learners to stick to a course influence the design process? You can update these questions. This is all automatically created. I’m just going to select randomly. We get immediate feedback. I’ll go to the next one. Which of the following best describes the primary benefit of understanding the learner’s perspective in course design? It provides a structure for the course, making it easier for the instructor to follow a predetermined plan. No. It allows course creators to reuse content more efficiently, saving time and resources. It enables the design of targeted activities and lessons that align with learner specific goals. It guarantees higher this one. Three. Correct.
Automated Flashcards and Reflection
So, we get that immediate feedback. You can adjust any of these things as well in quiz gecko. Like I mentioned this was a quiz that was automatically generated from a video that I already had. You can copy and paste a text lesson or an article. You can upload videos anything. So you would have your particular lesson that you have. Copy and paste that into quiz gecko and then it creates a quiz automatically. Flashcards here again I’ve already started having a look at them. We can go through learner perspective and then we can easily just go through and read about what the learner perspective is.
and go on to the next flash card learner persona reminds ourself what learner persona is. So these are again automatically generated from a video that I uploaded into quiz gecko. You can kind of get the feel of how it looks like from the student perspective and how this is all automatically created for you.
Small Shifts, Big Impact
These are only three examples of how AI can support your learners inside your course without needing to rebuild your entire program or invest in custom development. These tools are accessible. They’re learner friendly and easy to implement one lesson at a time. I built these all three of them in less than 1 hour. So you don’t need to become an AI educator or an AI expert. You don’t need to redesign your curriculum. But by introducing just one of these tools, one opportunity for practice, one simulation or one interactive checkpoint, you make your course more adaptive, more engaging, and more aligned with how people learn today. Would your learners benefit from any of these AI powered activities?