5 Essential AI Skills for Instructional Designers

These are the five essential AI skills for instructional designers: prompt engineering, mastering the AI tools, communicating about AI with stakeholders, JavaScript, and AI-powered automation. AI moves fast, so I keep the up-to-date version of this guidance in my complete AI in instructional design guide here: https://www.devlinpeck.com/content/ai... And if you want to put these skills to work on a real project, I built Devlin.ai so instructional designers can add AI practice conversations to their existing eLearning experiences: https://devlin.ai/?utm_source=youtube... In this video, I walk through the role, task, and context prompt format I use with ChatGPT and Claude, plus prompting tips like asking the AI what questions it has before it starts. I share my top three tools, why you'll need to explain AI to clients and subject matter experts, how JavaScript lets you connect AI to tools like Storyline 360, and how automation platforms like n8n let you put a large language model behind your repetitive workflows. These skills are helping me and my team work faster, and they're helping the IDs we work with make a bigger impact in their roles. More from Devlin Peck: Will AI Replace Instructional Designers? My Honest Answer: https://www.devlinpeck.com/content/wi... How to Become an Instructional Designer in the Age of AI:    • How to Become an Instructional Designer in...   More free instructional design tutorials and resources: https://www.devlinpeck.com/?utm_sourc... Connect with me on LinkedIn:   / devlinpeck   Chapters: 0:00 Intro and Skills 1:05 Prompt Engineering, formatting, and tips 5:58 Prompting Tips 10:24 Mastering the Tools 12:22 Top 3 Tools 14:21 Communicating or Teaching about AI 17:50 JavaScript 21:17 Automation 23:07 Next Steps #instructionaldesign #AIskills #elearning #promptengineering #learninganddevelopment #AItools