AI Design Studio: Iterative Lesson Design for Adult Learning with GenAI

This one-day Intermediate CPD helps adult educators, trainers, facilitators, and learning developers use GenAI as an iterative design partner for lesson planning, not as a one-shot lesson generator. The central problem addressed is that AI-generated lesson plans can appear complete while still being weak in learner fit, sequencing, cognitive load, accessibility, or evidence of learning.

The course is framed around adult education lesson design where participants analyse an instructional context, select a fit-for-purpose pedagogical template such as Merrill's First Principles of Instruction, and use Design Thinking to generate, prototype, test, and refine AI-assisted lesson variants.

Participants will also evaluate AI-generated lesson materials using Mayer's multimedia principles, with accessibility and information-integrity checks so that outputs are inclusive, coherent, and suitable for the intended learners.

Together with AI Formative Assessment Studio: Designing Socratic AI Dialogue for Learner Understanding, this programme forms the intermediate tier of the IAL-AISG (ADAPT) series. Participants who complete both programmes will receive a joint IAL-AISG certificate.

Many educators can prompt AI to produce a lesson outline, but generic outputs often don’t reflect learner needs, sound pedagogy, inclusive design, or organisational quality expectations. This CPD is positioned for educators, trainers, and learning developers who want to use GenAI as a design collaborator while keeping professional judgement at the centre. Participants work with realistic lesson-design examples, a fit-for-purpose pedagogical template (Merrill's First Principles), AI-generated lesson variants, and a Mayer-based multimedia review process. The focus is on educator-facing lesson planning: diagnosing the instructional context, selecting an appropriate design structure, testing alternatives, and making defensible decisions about what to keep, change, or reject. The course is deliberately tool-agnostic. Instead of locking participants into one platform, it introduces an adaptable workflow for generating, comparing, auditing, and consolidating AI-assisted lesson designs. Participants leave with a final lesson plan, a lightweight design worksheet, and reusable prompts/templates. These outputs can be used as repeatable design assets for future course refresh, lesson redesign, or peer review of AI-assisted courseware. ADAPT alignment: 1.1 Design & Planning, 3.2 Critical Evaluation & Information Quality, 3.4 Resource Creation, and 3.6 Accessibility & Sustainability at Intermediate level.

^ Assessment: Formative Assessment(s), Assignments/Presentations/Practical Performances)

^ Completion: Upon 100% attendance and meeting Assessment requirement, learners will receive a Certificate of Completion from IAL (and other partners where applicable)