Summary
Generative AI has unlocked a massive opportunity for content creation. There is also an unfulfilled need for experts to be able to share their knowledge and build communities. Illumidesk was built to take advantage of this intersection. In this episode Greg Werner explains how they are using generative AI as an assistive tool for creating educational material, as well as building a data driven experience for learners.
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Your host is Tobias Macey and today I'm interviewing Greg Werner about building IllumiDesk, a data-driven and AI powered online learning platform
Interview
Introduction
How did you get involved in the area of data management?
Can you describe what Illumidesk is and the story behind it?
What are the challenges that educators and content creators face in developing and maintaining digital course materials for their target audiences?
How are you leaning on data integrations and AI to reduce the initial time investment required to deliver courseware?
What are the opportunities for collecting and collating learner interactions with the course materials to provide feedback to the instructors?
What are some of the ways that you are incorporating pedagogical strategies into the measurement and evaluation methods that you use for reports?
What are the different categories of insights that you need to provide across the different stakeholders/personas who are interacting with the platform and learning content?
Can you describe how you have architected the Illumidesk platform?
How have the design and goals shifted since you first began working on it?
What are the strategies that you have used to allow for evolution and adaptation of the system in order to keep pace with the ecosystem of generative AI capabilities?
What are the failure modes of the cont