How to Use ChatGPT for Five Common Instructional Design Tasks
How to Use ChatGPT for Five Common Instructional Design Tasks
How to use ChatGPT as an instructional designer. Five methods of using ChatGPT to help with typical instructional design tasks such as organizing content, writing learning objectives, writing distractors for multiple choice questions, creating content outlines, and generating ideas for learning activities.
00:00 Start
00:21 How Can ChatGPT Organize Content?
04:32 How Can ChatGPT Help Write Learning Objectives?
10:02 How Can ChatGPT Help with Writing Distractors for Multiple Choice Questions?
15:09 How Can ChatGPT be Used to Create a Content Outline for Learning Course or Module?
18:42 How to Generate Ides for Learning Activities Using ChatGPT?
24:12 Warning about ChatGPT Use by Instructional Designers
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0.42 -> as someone who creates instruction I found five
ways that ChatGPT helps make me more efficient
7.44 -> and more effective in my designing developing and
delivering online instruction so join me and I'll
15.24 -> show you my five methods and they just might be
five methods that could help you as well method or
21.78 -> tip one organizing jumbled content so imagine this
particular scenario you are tasked with creating
30.3 -> a course and you get all this content from all
these different subject matter experts so let's
34.98 -> say I'm doing a presentation on the metaverse so
I get some content from one expert that says oh
40.62 -> here's the present state of the metaverse and
another expert gives me a PowerPoint slide an
45.24 -> augmented reality and the metaverse and I get
even more decks of information now how do I
51.24 -> first of all get this all into one neat organized
elements so that I can look at it examine it and
60.48 -> figure out what's what so one of the ways that I
do that with ChatGPT is I'll go into a PowerPoint
65.94 -> slide and I'll go to file and I'll go export and
I'll export as a handout and I'll click on create
71.7 -> handouts it gives me a list of choices I'm going
to go to outline only I'm going to click on OK and
78.66 -> that's going to give me a lot of content from the
deck and then once it opens up in word I'm going
85.08 -> to select and I'm going to select all of it so
select all and then I'm going to control C copy
91.74 -> and then I'm going to go and find chat GPT and I'm
going to paste this into chat GPT so there it is
99.18 -> but that's not all that I have to do I have this
other presentation that I have to look at so I'm
104.7 -> going to go over and I'm going to find the other
presentation so I don't need this one anymore I'll
108.96 -> just close that and here's my other presentation
I'm going to do the same thing file I'm going to
115.02 -> export I'm going to create the handouts click on
create handouts I'm going to go down to outline
120.42 -> only I'm going to click on OK and then what that's
going to do is give me all of this content that
126.9 -> I'll select all I'm going to copy Ctrl C then I'm
going to find chat GPT and I'm going to paste it
134.1 -> in and you can do this for all of the slides decks
any kind of information that you get then when you
141.6 -> hit this particular symbol send message it's
going to say hey wait a minute I think you're
146.52 -> trying to consolidate this stuff and it says it
right there it's as we look it says it seems like
152.64 -> you're provided a comprehensive set of notes and
topics related to the metaverse it's current state
158.16 -> augmented reality I'll provide a summary and
address the key points that you've mentioned
164.22 -> and if you look here it gives me the key points of
the metaverse overview comes down here and tells
169.74 -> me challenges in development it gives me augmented
reality and the metaverse it gives me tips so it's
176.22 -> taken all this disparate information and combined
it into one easy and simple place that I can look
184.08 -> at it check it out and see if it meets my needs so
this saves me a lot of time when I get information
190.02 -> from a lot of different subject matter experts who
are like hey Karl can you put all this together in
195.54 -> a comprehensive course we want to get input from
all these different subject matter experts geez
200.88 -> before that used to be hours of studying all
the information all the content and bringing
206.1 -> it together here in a matter of minutes I copy I
paste it and I've got this information that I can
212.58 -> use in the future and now that I have all of this
great information there's one more thing I can
218.28 -> do so I can actually go here into the clipboard
and I can copy that that little check mark lets
223.44 -> me know it's copied I can go now to my word
document and I can paste it and now I've got
228.96 -> all this great information in one place all the
information that chat GPT Consolidated I can put
236.16 -> back into word I can save it I can send it to my
subject matter experts and see if they agree on
242.28 -> my consolidation or My/ChatGPT's consolidation of
the information the second way that I use chat GPT
250.5 -> to help make me a better designer of instruction
is doing something that's always not that much
255.78 -> fun writing objectives so if I have the right
objectives for a course or for a class or for
262.74 -> an e-learning module I simply ask chat GPT to
help me out with writing the objectives let me
270.18 -> show you what I mean so here's tip number
two using chat GPT to write objectives now
276.78 -> don't get me wrong I know that writing objectives
should come from the performance objective tied
282.9 -> to what we want the learner to do and make sure
it's behaviorally focused I I know all that but
288.36 -> sometimes just sometimes we get content and we
and the subject matter expert or the company or
294.6 -> the people we're Consulting with says Hey I want
you to make this into a course yeah but what are
299.46 -> the objectives well you figure out the objectives
or hey here's a bunch of slides here's a bunch of
304.32 -> content you need to figure out an objective or
I'm like hmm what could be objective I want you
309.6 -> to teach leadership what could be a good objective
for that right so those are the times when chat
315.24 -> GPT comes in handy and let me show you how I
use it to create really effective what I think
321.36 -> are effective objectives and obviously I have to
modify these sometimes or use my own judgment or
326.22 -> make sure that they match what the employee or
the student or the person needs to do on the job
331.32 -> so it's not perfect and I wouldn't recommend
it every time but it can be be helpful when
337.74 -> you're stuck and you've got to come up with
some objectives let me show you how I do it
341.64 -> okay let's see how this works so maybe I'll go to
chatgpt and I'll say write leadership objectives
351 -> okay and then I'll click enter and it'll
sir it says certainly and it gives me some
355.32 -> leadership objectives now one of the things
that you'll notice about this is that these
359.58 -> leadership objectives are not in the ABCD
format right they're great objectives and
365.46 -> provide me great information but it says you
know conflict resolution address conflicts
370.26 -> and disagreements constructively and promptly
but uh audience condition behavior and degree
375.24 -> not working so I might say um please
write the above in a b c d objective
386.4 -> format and what will happen is chat GPT will go
through and actually provide me you know sure I
395.04 -> can provide leadership objectives in ABCD
format action benefit context and deadline
399.6 -> not what I wanted right so I want audience
Behavior conditioning degree so I might say
405.48 -> um write above objectives using audience
Behavior condition and degree whoops and degree
421.5 -> um as maybe I'll say as an instructional designer
and I probably should have started my other prompt
427.44 -> that way but now notice what happens it will
go ahead and say okay here are the uh audience
434.94 -> Behavior condition degree here's the audience new
and experienced leaders aiming to enhance their
439.2 -> leadership skills we'll develop a clear and
inspiring vision for the teams organization's
444.24 -> future outlining goals and objectives collaborate
with key stakeholders within the first quarter and
450.42 -> by the end of the first quarter of the fiscal
year so it's providing me with the ABCD format
455.76 -> which is a really great way for me to come up
with quick objectives now I can again the nice
462.42 -> thing is I can copy this into word and I can then
manipulate these objectives to be exactly what I
468.54 -> want I can even say use these objectives
but focus on communication of leadership
478.5 -> communication and Leadership uh
within let's say within leadership
485.22 -> I go ahead and I click on that it's go ahead
and generates for me as I scroll down here we
491.88 -> are here's my prompts certainly leadership
focused subjectives audience leaders manage
496.14 -> improved communication so now I can narrow
it that way as well so the idea is it can
501.9 -> generate initial objectives uh as we saw
before it could take objectives from other
507.48 -> content and put them in so we had their meta
metaverse we can say write learning objectives
517.44 -> as an instructional designer
521.52 -> using a b c d format for the top three
subjects above and I hit enter and now
532.68 -> it's going to go ahead and give me
these objective attitudes condition
538.74 -> you know attitude understand
that um let's let's stop sort of
542.82 -> um oh attitude okay I really want
Behavior right so it didn't quite
547.98 -> do it so you got to be careful with jet chat
TPT so I'm going to say ABCD format audience
557.7 -> uh Behavior
560.82 -> so you got to be sometimes specific condition
and degree now write objectives for above
572.1 -> information right and so now it's going to use
the instructional design format so again chat GPT
578.58 -> isn't perfect and we don't expect it to be perfect
but it will provide us with a really good jumping
584.58 -> off point of taking content that we already had
then gener you know from a bunch of subject matter
591.3 -> experts and then generating broad objectives and
then generating specific objectives using the ABCD
598.5 -> format with you know a little prompting from
us tip number three is for the dreaded writing
604.26 -> multiple choice questions now the one thing that I
dread most about writing multiple choice questions
609.54 -> and most people do is coming up with feasible
realistic distractors and Chachi PT comes to the
617.4 -> Rescue by providing some really great ideas that
you might be able to use for distractors and some
623.04 -> ways that you can modify or play with it to help
you rev up your creative juices so let's see how
630.54 -> I do that in chat GPT okay so let's say that we
need to write a distractor we're doing a safety
636.48 -> course so what we want to do is we want to ask
chat GPT to create plausible distractors for the
643.2 -> following safety question which is when choosing
the correct type of temporary work surface what
648.48 -> should you consider I type that in and chat
GPT gave me some answers now keep in mind
653.22 -> that every time you use chat GPT you're going to
get possibly a different response so you may type
659.22 -> it in several times but here we go we have colors
and Aesthetics we have affordability and this time
665.04 -> chat GPT is actually giving us information
of why it's not the correct answer right
672 -> perhaps we look at affordability and it says you
know cost is important but it shouldn't be the
677.16 -> main factor so it gives me these items all the
way that gave me actually 10 different items and
683.22 -> it even gives me information about remember
the correct answer should focus on aspects
688.02 -> directly related to safety so that's really
good but I might say please put these into
694.8 -> um these into statements that would
appear in a multiple choice question
706.26 -> and let's see what chat GPT does there
709.44 -> so here now let's kind of put it into this type
of element so question when choosing the correct
715.08 -> type of temporary work service what should you
consider colors and Aesthetics affordability
719.82 -> brand recognition so just kind of put them in that
format which is very nice and I can even say let's
725.82 -> say that's not enough I might ask chat GPT to give
me 10 more distractors for the above information
739.08 -> so I click on that and now it's going to give
me even more right 10 additional availability
744.18 -> built-in speakers or a sound system Energy
Efficiency warranty period folding mechanisms
750.3 -> and storage options all of these now I can use
this information to create my own distractors
756.66 -> that make sense for a multiple choice question
but this helps me get started on thinking of those
762.6 -> dreaded distractors and I can use or modify some
of those let me give you another example here's
767.52 -> distractors for OSHA so I'm asking chat GPT to
find distractors for multiple choice question
774.06 -> what must be done if the hazard or repair cannot
be corrected immediately by OSHA and here's some
780.12 -> distractors now please keep keep in mind that chat
GPT does something called hallucination which it
786.96 -> will guess at a right answer so I'm not saying
that you blindly copy and paste this into your
793.56 -> course do not do that in fact some lawyer got into
an awful lot of trouble for doing exactly that
802.62 -> he used chat GPT for precedence on cases then it
made stuff up and it made him look bad so don't
809.28 -> do that but use this to inform your knowledge
already that you have to augment what you're
817.08 -> doing and here's another thing that I do that's
maybe kind of crazy or maybe kind of different
821.94 -> but I said make them silly so I said hey I
want you to make the distractors silly and
828.24 -> it's chat GPT said certainly here are five silly
distractors for multiple choice questions right
834.72 -> perform a magical dance to ward off the hazard
or repair well that's not gonna work summon a
840.66 -> team of unicorns to fix the hazard or repair
that doesn't make sense but why would I ask
845.76 -> it to give me silly responses because it can
help spark my creativity I can say for example
851.64 -> instead of Consulting a fortune teller I could
say consult your manager to predict the outcome
858.06 -> of the hazard or repair now that's much more
reasonable instead of using a giant wand to
864.54 -> encapsulate the hazard or repair and float
it away I can say something like have a team
870.12 -> come and investigate possible hazards and then
certify them as a hazard or not a hazard right
875.82 -> so I can use information that was presented in a
very silly manner to help spark my own creative
885.3 -> so I asked chat GPT from time to time to give me
silly answers because that Sparks my creativity
891.72 -> as a designer and allows me to up my game by
substituting words by getting some really crazy
899.82 -> kind of ideas and putting them together with my
knowledge of the subject to make an appropriate
906 -> distractor so the next way I use chat GPT to
help me kind of brainstorm as an instructional
911.58 -> designer is to create a Content outline so I
might say create a Content outline on let's say
919.74 -> for example personal protective equipment and make
it for a one day workshop so I'd simply click on
933.96 -> that and it gives me the objective gives me the
target audience and now it starts to create an
939.48 -> outline for me and then I can use this as my own
outline and I can change it so for example this
945.78 -> is going to give me information the objective
equip participants with Comprehensive knowledge
949.86 -> practical skills related to PPE who's the target
audience introduction to PPE types of PPE in their
957.54 -> application selecting the right PPE proper usage
Etc so it allows me to do that but now I can say
963.54 -> uh for example take the above information and
let's make it uh take the above information
973.08 -> oh my typing is uh not information
and make it a 30 minute online course
984 -> and voila it goes and it creates this information
and it tells me how long each element is going
991.26 -> to be five minutes five minutes four minutes
four minutes three minutes exactly like that
997.8 -> so it gives me a lot of flexibility
I can even say make the above content
1005.24 -> into a series of micro learning
1010.94 -> experiences and when I hit that it's going to
go ahead and generate micro learning and it's
1017.42 -> going to give you the introduction definition The
Experience two head to toe protection experience
1022.94 -> three hand and foot safety exploring hand and
foot so it gives me these broken up in a micro
1028.46 -> learning element so I may like this I may say
yeah this is great fantastic or I may say nah
1034.34 -> this isn't really what I want I'm going to change
and modify but it immediately gives you several
1040.28 -> different ways of looking at the content we can
also if we go back to our metaverse if remember
1045.8 -> you know we did that we could take this content
and we can say okay now take these objectives
1053.24 -> and make a course and make a one hour
e-learning [Music] module outline
1062.78 -> boom and so certainly here's an outline so
it's one hour it's going to give me the module
1069.62 -> introduction it tells me okay understanding the
metaverse that's going to be 20 minutes here's the
1074 -> learning objective here's the content now here's
section two navigating the metaverse landscape
1079.1 -> here's the audience the learning objectives
the content closures and developments all
1084.8 -> that good stuff so chat GPT gives me the ability
to very quickly create learning outlines content
1093.32 -> outlines based on material I put in previously
based on material that I generated from scratch
1098.66 -> for instance PPE and it allows you then to look at
that content and decide what you want and even if
1106.22 -> you have content as we said before from different
courses on PPE you can put them all into chat GPT
1112.58 -> and create brand new content outline so it's a
really fast and effective tool for creating quick
1119.3 -> content outlines tip five is generating ideas
for activities oftentimes I'll be stuck like hmm
1125.6 -> what should I have the Learners do what kind of
Activity Works well do I want to do another drag
1129.8 -> and drop right I want to come up with ideas for
really interesting activities and chat GPT lets
1136.82 -> me do just that let's take a look at some examples
so let's talk about how we can create activities
1141.98 -> let's ask GPT chat GPT how to create an activity
or for some activity ideas so please uh generate
1151.7 -> ideas for online activities related to
whoops related to personal protective
1164.54 -> equipment
1167.48 -> and it's going to take a moment and it's going to
give me virtual workshops interactive PPE quiz a
1173.06 -> PPE fashion show that's kind of interesting I
didn't think of that PPE DYI tutorial somebody
1180.26 -> kind of showing themselves an art contest maybe
not donation Drive where individuals purchase PPE
1187.1 -> items online and have them directly sent to
organizations that's not really the activity
1191.78 -> I was looking for let's go and change it a
little bit take the above [Applause] prompt
1202.76 -> and provide me with online learning activities
that can be done with the computer let's say
1212.6 -> that can be done with a computer all right
let's see what they come up with here
1218.84 -> so uh PPE infographics was before but here we
add the props and they have a virtual Workshop
1224.66 -> they have the quiz they have the same kind of
information so in this case chat GPT is not giving
1230.36 -> me a lot of different things right but maybe I can
say give me an Interactive exercise activity let's
1239.72 -> call it activity so if you don't get what
you want sometimes changing words can help
1243.5 -> actually I use the activity so let's use exercise
that can help a person learn about the proper
1256.88 -> donning of PPE oh and I might spell donning wrong
1262.58 -> uh there we go it has two ends and I'm
going to say personal protective equipment
1271.64 -> and let's see what comes up with that all right
here it goes and we can see here as we scroll
1280.88 -> down interactive PPE donning simulation
so now we have an interactive simulation
1285.68 -> it's going to guide the participants step by
step through the process of donning PPE here's
1290.42 -> an introduction what's happening guidance
decision points feedback correction practice
1296 -> and repetition so that's pretty good um uh
let's see can you develop similar exercise
1306.44 -> but not the same based on this information
let's call it the above information
1315.32 -> and let's see what we can get out of that
1321.02 -> so here's the donning challenge to um engage
participants on fun and competitive exercise
1326.54 -> that reinforces introduction scenarios
virtual challenge platform PPE selection
1333.38 -> finding the right thing they can make it
time-based you can have decision points
1337.88 -> um and can you turn uh donning PPE personal
protect uh as described above [Applause]
1350.12 -> into a card game all right let's
see what they can do with that
1355.46 -> okay chat GPT show me what you've got here so the
PPE Pro Defender card game right to correctly Don
1362.54 -> different pieces of PPE and uh complete scenarios
so you have a card deck custom designed or printed
1368.06 -> you have a scenario guide you create a deck of
cards each represent a different item gloves
1373.16 -> gowns mask you design each card to include an
illustration of the item so that makes sense
1378.62 -> then you have a scenario guide prepare a guide
describes different situations an environment
1382.46 -> that you have to put on PPE and how you play the
game well you have this introduction you deal with
1387.02 -> cards you Shuffle the deck deal a set of cards to
each player each player draws a scenario then you
1392.18 -> get the donning chop challenge where you've gotta
get the scenario and figure out what PPE items go
1397.04 -> on there there's going to be a timer maybe one to
two minutes you're gonna score points based on the
1402.56 -> correctness and accuracy of your choices once
you complete the scenario you have a chance to
1408.44 -> um see the reveal of the correct PPE choices
and discuss the importance of each and then
1413.84 -> you have the winning State and with most card
games I find discussion and reflection is very
1418.52 -> important and here they even give me variations
like team play or Advanced scenarios so you can
1424.64 -> see you can generate a lot of really good ideas
about what kind of activities you want to present
1431.12 -> to Learners and even my favorite of course is
create a game based on the subject matter that
1439.34 -> you're describing so this is a really great way
to generate ideas and concepts for your design
1445.58 -> of instruction based on using chat gpt's Powers so
as I close out the video I just want to give you a
1452.42 -> warning about chat GPT there have been instances
especially a very famous one about a lawyer who
1458.72 -> used chat GPT and the citations that it created
weren't real and he got into a lot of trouble for
1466.22 -> that there's also reports that the accuracy of of
chat GPT actually is going down over time so it's
1472.76 -> up to you as the instructional designer to Heed
These Warnings and to make sure that you provide
1480.38 -> the accuracy for the content that's your job it's
not anyone else's it's your job to make sure that
1486.86 -> content is accurate so make sure the content is
accurate but use chat GPT for these five areas to
1493.04 -> find some really interesting motivational
aspects as you explore and use chat GPT
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