L&D Go Beyond
L&D Go Beyond Podcast
A deep dive into learning, capability, and performance by Upside Learning
The L&D Go Beyond Podcast brings together leaders who are shaping the future of workplace learning. Each episode moves past traditional training conversations to examine how learning drives capability, performance, and real organizational outcomes.
The series explores the forces redefining the learning landscape, including AI, skilling demands, capability building, learning design, business alignment, and the growing pressure to demonstrate impact. Conversations are grounded in practice and informed by the experiences of CLOs, strategists, researchers, authors, and practitioners from across industries.
Guests share clear, practical insights into how learning can be designed, supported, and measured with intention. The discussions highlight what becomes possible when L&D operates with clarity, purpose, and a focus on meaningful results.
Upside Learning, a Mitr company, brings 20+ years of experience in delivering award-winning custom eLearning, learning consulting, and staff augmentation services.
If you are committed to creating learning that works and contributes to performance in the new world of work, this podcast is your space.
Listen. Learn. Go beyond.
L&D Go Beyond
Can Traditional Authoring Tools Survive AI? with Mike Stein
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Traditional authoring tools have shaped eLearning for years, but AI is rapidly changing how learning experiences are designed, built, and delivered.
In Season 3 Episode 3 of the L&D Go Beyond Podcast, Mike Stein, Instructional Designer and Founder of ID Atlas, joins Venudhar Bhatt for a practical discussion on the future of instructional design, AI-assisted development, microlearning, and modern learning workflows.
The conversation explores:
• Whether traditional authoring tools can keep up with AI
• Why course-first thinking may be limiting workplace learning
• Microlearning and just-in-time learning
• Spaced repetition and the forgetting curve
• AI coding agents and modern learning design workflows
• Learning effectiveness vs production efficiency
And how instructional designers may need to rethink their role moving forward
Mike also shares insights from his widely discussed research comparing multiple authoring tools against traditional Storyline-based workflows and what the findings could mean for learning teams navigating the AI shift.
Guest: Mike Stein
Instructional Designer & Founder, ID Atlas
Connect with Mike:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikesteindesign/
Website: https://idatlas.org
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