The AI & Learning Design Bootcamp
Dr Philippa Hardman
World-leading expert in AI & education
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“All learning designers will be AI-enhanced learning designers in the future"
You can ask AI to "write 5 learning objectives for a sales training." It will do what you ask, but the objectives will be generic, inconsistent & lack impact. You will spend as much time editing them as you would've spent writing them from scratch.
Or: you can build a Learning Objective Writer that follows your design standards every time, checks its own work against your rubric, writes in your style guide, and can be shared so that anyone on your team can use.
That's the difference between prompting and building. This bootcamp teaches you to build.
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In 4 hands-on weeks, you'll move from using AI to leading with it — learning how to build reusable AI tools (prompt templates, GPTs, apps & agents) for every phase of your workflow:
Analyse → extract what learners actually need from messy, real-world data
Design → create evidence-based designs tested against real learner profiles
Develop & Implement → produce content, assessments, and prototypes at production quality — then build teaching assistants and feedback bots that work for learners directly
Evaluate → measure impact, close the feedback loop, and know what to build next
What you’ll learn
You'll learn how to build AI tools that actually work — for you, your stakeholders, team & learners — across your full workflow.
Build a tool to extract learning needs, gaps, and misconceptions from interviews, tickets, or evaluations — structured and cited
Run root cause analysis with AI: is this a training problem or something else?
Produce a problem definition document (business problem, learning problem, root cause, learner profile) for stakeholders
Build a tool generating measurable objectives mapped to learner profiles, style guides and best practices
Use AI to explore strategies, then stress-test designs by having AI walk through as different learners (resistant, overwhelmed, busy)
Produce evidence-based outlines with aligned objectives, activities, assessments — and a rationale you can defend
Build tools for drafting, assessments, editing, image generation, video scripting — with quality checks and reference materials built in
Use production techniques: generate multiple versions, synthesise the best, separate creation from critique, red-team before shipping
Decide when designs become reusable prompts, GPTs, agents, or apps — then build it
Build a tool analysing qualitative feedback using semantic analysis — themes, sentiment, prioritised actions, not vague summaries
Analyse quantitative data to measure learning impact and performance outcomes
See what's next: always-on systems monitoring your LMS, flagging engagement drops, sending reports without you clicking anything
Learn directly from Philippa
Dr Philippa Hardman
Top Voice on LinkedIn | Cambridge Uni Scholar | TED Speaker | Learning Designer
Who this course is for
Learning Designers - you want to stay ahead of the curve & leverage AI to optimise your efficiency & impact on learners
L&D Professionals - you want to optimise org performance by taking an evidence-based, AI-powered approach to workplace training design
Academics & Teachers - you want adopt an evidence-based design approach to learning design process & stay ahead of the AI curve
What's included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Dr Philippa Hardman in a real-time, interactive format.
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
Maven Guarantee
This course is backed by the Maven Guarantee. Students are eligible for a full refund up until the halfway point of the course.
Course syllabus
4 live sessions • 15 lessons • 8 projects
Week 1
Apr
17
🚀 AI & Learning Design Bootcamp - Live Class 1
Fri 4/173:00 PM—4:00 PM (UTC)
🔎 Week 1, Project 1: AI-Powered Analysis
Week 2
Apr
24
🚀 AI & Learning Design Bootcamp - Live Class 2
Fri 4/243:00 PM—4:00 PM (UTC)
🧠 Week 2, Project 2: AI-Powered Design
Schedule
Live sessions
1 hr / week
Weekly 60 min live sessions on Fridays, led by Phil
Fri, Apr 17
3:00 PM—4:00 PM (UTC)
Fri, Apr 24
3:00 PM—4:00 PM (UTC)
Fri, May 1
3:00 PM—4:00 PM (UTC)
Fri, May 8
3:00 PM—4:00 PM (UTC)
Projects
1 hr / week
Weekly immersive projects, completed async with async support from me & your cohort in a dedicated online community
Async content
1 hr / week
Weekly TLDR summaries of the current state of AI use for analysis / design / development & implementation, based on robust research
Testimonials
After 20+ years in instructional design, this is the best professional development experience I’ve had.
Kim M. Lang
Senior Manager, Instructional Design, LinkVisum- This is genuinely is the best online course I have ever experienced - it will resonate with me for a lifetime. It's helped me to develop & validate my course design skills and for the first time I feel truly competent as a course designer. I am so inspired and full of ideas and drive right now!
Michelle Mitchelle
Design Specialist, Learnlight - This course is amazing. It had an immediate impact on my business & gave me the confidence to design and build courses learners want and need. Phil is so generous with feedback and expert insights. This course has already paid for itself five times over & counting. Thanks, Phil!
Hannah Palin
Director of Learning, Digital Learning Design - I’ve been teaching for 7 years, both at my own business and at universities like Harvard and ESCP. I wish I had done this program earlier! Super, super valuable 👍🏻.
Gianluca Mauro
Founder & CEO, AI Academy - Using a course design process (DOMS™️) rooted in decades of learning science research & product expertise has been transformative for my L&D programme. Here is your opportunity to learn from the best.
Renee Guilbault
Principal & Founder, Essayer Food Consulting
Welcome Video
Watch me (or rather, my AI avatar) introduce the bootcamp to the class of February, 2026
The FRAME™️ Methodology
Throughout the bootcamp we will use the FRAME™️ methodology -- a groundbreaking approach proven to leverage the benefits of AI while mitigating its risks.
Learn more here.
Frequently asked questions
Weekly live classes led by Dr Phil
A dedicated online community run by Dr Phil
£995
GBP
4 cohorts