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The bleeding edge of L&D in late 2026
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Something I get asked a lot at the moment is: what’s happening at the bleeding edge of L&D? What are the orgs and teams which are really innovating doing differently, and how?
So, in this week’s post I thought I’d share...
Beyond Click-Next: When, How & Why to Build Learning Games with AI
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When L&D teams first started using AI regularly, the question I got asked most was: “How can I use AI to make more courses and more content, more quickly?” In 2026, content creation is still the number one use of AI in L&D (Ta...
Tests Show AI *Can* Design Like an Expert Instructional Designer, So What Next?
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Last month, I put Articulate’s new doc-to-course product through eight tests. Frontline (and other AI products like it) promises the ability to design like a pro instructional designer using “20+ years of learning science expe...
L&D Is Making More AI Video Than Ever. But Is Any of It Actually Helping People Learn?
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In 2026, around half of L&D teams are using AI to make video (52%; Synthesia, AI in L&D Report 2026). The reason is clear: 88% say the main value of AI is time saved on content creation.
The time and cost savings are real a...
The AI Tools that L&D Teams Are Building (Rather than Buying)
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Two years ago, almost every AI-related conversation I had started with the same question: which tools should we buy? Today, the question I’m asked most, by Bootcamp participants and by the organisations I advise, is different:...
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