
The latest Elearning Links roundup curates fresh perspectives on character‑driven learning, AI‑powered image creation, and cognitive research. It highlights Teresa Moreno’s coping‑model approach for boosting learner self‑efficacy, agentic workflows that auto‑refine graphics, and the release of Midjourney’s Niji v7 for anime‑style visuals. Additional resources cover AI‑assisted assessment scoring, memory studies blurring episodic‑semantic boundaries, and practical tools for designers. Upcoming webinars promise hands‑on AI visual‑design training for instructional professionals.

Instructional designers without a subject‑matter expert can now leverage large language models as stand‑in SMEs to create portfolio samples. The guide provides concrete prompts for brainstorming project ideas, generating fictional organizations, and conducting simulated SME interviews, while stressing the need...

In a recent IDIODC podcast, Chris Van Wingerden and Paul Schneider explored the transition from generic stock photos to custom AI‑generated images for learning content. The discussion highlighted how instructional designers can experiment with AI using blog posts, adopt consistent...

The post curates a set of recent resources spanning local large language models, AI ethics, and learning‑technology research. It highlights practical guides for running open‑source LLMs on personal devices, ethical AI companions that minimize data exposure, and studies showing AI‑generated...

Christy Tucker outlines seven actionable strategies for crafting realistic wrong answers in branching e‑learning scenarios. The tips range from drawing on actual workplace mistakes and partially correct options to using “right answer, wrong time” choices, trade‑off framing, nuanced “good‑better‑best” scales,...