Class of May 2025

Broad professional audience — content relevant across many roles and functions.

Applying AI tools and techniques to professional workflows — assign alongside more specific AI topics.

Teachers, course creators, and instructional designers building learning experiences.

HR and people operations professionals handling hiring, compensation, employee experience, and organizational development.

Leading organizational AI adoption — change management, strategy, and building AI-ready teams.

Automating professional workflows with AI tools — productivity, operations, and task automation.

How to decide where AI adds value in your L&D work, build tools that do it, and prove they work.

World-leading expert in AI + L&D

University of Cambridge

Maven

KPMG

OpenAI

Aula

Dr Philippa Hardman 

The AI Bootcamp for L&D

The #1 AI- Bootcamp for people who design & develop learning & training, led by LinkedIn Top Voice, Dr Phil 

Harvard University

Teach First

Hey! I'm Dr. Phil and I'm excited to invite you to my four-week blended bootcamp to get ahead of the AI curve and learn how to use AI to optimise the efficiency and effectiveness of your learning design process. Each week, you'll complete an async project (~90 mins) and join me for a 1hr live debrief &amp; exploration class. Together, we'll transform the velocity &amp; impact of your learning analysis, design, development, implementation &amp; evaluation process with AI. The Overview In this four-week bootcamp, you'll complete 4 x hands-on projects. 📊 WEEK 1: AI-POWERED ANALYSISHow does AI impact the speed and quality of analysis tasks? Work with AI to run a root cause analysis, problem definition and build learner personas. 🎯 WEEK 2: AI-POWERED DESIGNHow does AI impact the speed and quality of design tasks? Work with AI to turn the root cause analysis &amp; personas into killer learning objectives and a design storyboard. 🎬 WEEK 3: AI-POWERED DEVELOPMENT &amp; IMPLEMENTATIONHow does AI impact the speed and quality of development &amp; implementation tasks? Work with AI to turn our storyboard into a prototype, some sample course content and/or a GPT "tutor" to help us to deliver it. 📈 WEEK 4: AI-POWERED EVALUATIONHow does AI impact the speed and quality of evaluation tasks? Work with AI to run deep qualitative and quantitative analyses using prompts, GPTs and even agents. Bonus: Stretch Week (no live class)Get continued access to the course materials, community and Phil for a bonus week to get advice, feedback and help transfer your learning into practice._____ Cohort &amp; Live Class Details Class of January 2026: January 12th—Feb 6th, 2026Weekly live classes on Fridays @ 4-5 PM UK Class of February 2026: February 23rd—March 10th 2026Weekly live classes on Fridays @ 8-9AM UK Class of April 2026: April 13th-May 8thWeekly live classes on Fridays @ 4-5 PM UK ______ How it Works: - Projects are released in the community on Monday morning (UK).- Projects are completed between Mon &amp; Thurs PM (UK) &amp; shared in our Slack-like community.- Every participant receives feedback on their project from Phil every week.- We meet at a 1hr live class each Friday to explore our projects and try more AI use cases. Throughout, Phil is available in the community to take questions and give feedback.

“All learning designers will be AI-enhanced learning designers in the future"

Learning Designers - you want to stay ahead of the curve &amp; leverage AI to optimise your efficiency &amp; impact on learners

L&amp;D Professionals - you want to optimise org performance by taking an evidence-based, AI-powered approach to workplace training design

Academics &amp; Teachers - you want adopt an evidence-based design approach to learning design process &amp; stay ahead of the AI curve

Who is this course for?

Bootcamp Summary

I'll show you the most powerful and up-to-date AI tools for educators &amp; instructional designers, all pre-tried &amp; tested by me. You'll get hands-on experience with 50 state-of-the-art AI tools specially curated for each step of the instructional design process.

Integrate Cutting-Edge AI into Your Course Design & Delivery
 

You'll master both structured and conversational prompting techniques to get the best results from a range of up to date AI models.

Become a Prompting Pro

You'll choose from 50 cutting-edge use cases and ship 4 AI projects, receiving feedback from me and your peers as you go.

Hands-On By Design

I believe in communities, not islands. You'll join a carefully curated cohort of like-minded people, support one another, hold one another to account &amp; build your network as well as your knowledge &amp; skills.

Connected By Design

Learn once, rinse &amp; repeat. You'll leave with the tools, prompts, use cases and skills you need to be ahead of the AI curve and optimise your process for both efficiency and effectiveness using AI.

Take-Away Skills for Life

Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.

Community of peers

Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.

Certificate of completion

<ul><li>Test multiple cutting-edge AI use cases for analysis.</li><li>Learn how to use AI to conduct evidence-based needs analysis faster and with greater accuracy.</li><li>Test how AI impacts the speed &amp; quality of instructional analysis.</li><li>Master evidence-based prompting—the secret to getting high-quality AI-generated outputs.</li></ul>

Week 1 - AI-Powered Analysis 

<ul><li>Discover how AI can enhance the design part of your process.</li><li>Explore research-backed strategies to optimise course design with AI.</li><li>Use AI to build a virtual SME, develop knowledge and skills maps, learning objectives &amp; course outlines. </li></ul>

Week 2 - Project 2: AI-Powered Design

<ul><li>Use AI tools to create engaging multimedia content (videos, images, assessments, simulations).</li><li>Leverage AI for rapid prototyping and course development.</li><li>Design effective AI-powered coaching and feedback systems.</li></ul>

Week 3 - Project 3: AI-Powered Development & Implementation

<ul><li>Master AI-enhanced learning evaluation techniques.</li><li>Use AI to measure ROI, learner engagement, and business impact.</li><li>Learn to refine and optimize training based on AI-driven analytics.</li></ul>

Week 4 - Project 4: AI-Powered Evaluation

Four Weeks, Four Projects, One End to End Instructional Design Experience: Powered By AI + Learning Science

🗄️ Project Outcome: You will learn how use AI to accelerate &amp; augment your analysis process: how can AI help us to us define what to design? 🧳 Use Cases: include AI-powered needs analysis &amp; simulating learner interviews.

Week 1, Project 1: AI-Powered Analysis  

🗄️ Project Outcome: You will learn how use AI to accelerate &amp; augment your design process: how can AI help us to us define how to design? 🧳 Use Cases: include AI-powered ZPD definition &amp; outline creation.

Week 2, Project 2: AI-Powered Design

🗄️ Project Outcome: You will learn how use AI to accelerate &amp; augment your delivery: how can AI help us to build learning content &amp; evaluate its impact on learning and business outcomes? 🧳 Use Cases: include AI-powered content creation &amp; the creation of an AI tutor-bot.

Week 3, Project 3: AI-Powered Development & Implementation

🗄️ Project Outcome: You will learn how to use AI to accelerate and augment both formative &amp; summative evaluation. 🧳 Use Cases: include building an AI-powered evaluation bot &amp; using AI to analyse evaluation data. I will be in the community throughout to support you!

Week 4, Project 4: AI-Powered Evaluation

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