"Unleash the Power of ChatGPT: 8 Learning Design Hacks"

Welcome to 2023. It is unlikely you haven’t heard of ChatGPT by now but, if you haven’t heard about this revolutionary, human-trained bot, then now you know. ChatGPT was made to answer follow-up questions, and provide answers to human-created prompts. It is still a work-in-progress (WIP) at the time of this article but will get better and more accurate as more data from users (e.g. people like you inputting questions) is received.

ChatGPT came with a few drawbacks. Many teachers and professors are concerned about students inputting prompts from class into the bot and retrieving a solution so well-written that it is impossible to detect who wrote the response. Fortunately, others have found potential solutions for this kind of problem. This tech has only been public since November 2022, so there is a likelihood it will generate more problems and solutions as time goes on.

Fortunately, there are ways we can use this technology to our advantage. This article will cover the following topics:

1. Storyboard Content
2. Formulate Headlines, Course Names, or Titles
3. Email Subject Lines
4. Announcements and newsletters
5. Automate emails to subscribers or promote content
6. Keyword prompts
7. The meta description for your work?
8. Ad Copy

Storyboard Content

Have a good idea but not quite sure how to take it from concept to a final product? Drop the prompt into ChatGPT and see what it spits out. This tool can provide you with great ideas for your topic, perhaps even some that aren’t on your radar.

Let’s check it out.

Formulate Headlines or Course Names

Don’t you hate it when you have content that is going to blow people away, solve some big issue, or move the needle ever-so-slightly but you can’t think of a catchy name?

Let ChatGPT do it for you. Simply insert a few headline options into ChatGPT in a bullet format and ask it to generate five more headline formulas.

You can take those headlines and optimize them by making them more specific. See below.

Email Subject Lines

Very similar to writing a headline, just import the Subject Line Formulas and paste them into ChatGPT for new Subject Lines to use and test with your audience. See below.

Announcements and newsletters

Maybe writing a communication email about a new course or change aren’t in your wheelhouse. Let ChatGPT do it for you and tweak it to your audience.

Automate emails to subscribers or promote content

Make an automated email or referral email from a prompt like the one below.

Prompt: "Write email copy to tell current subscribers who’ve been subscribed for the last year to invite friends who might enjoy this newsletter too but make it funny."

Prompt, "Write a welcome to my existing subscribers to "Out of Class" and share about our upcoming content. Make it fun and engaging"

Keyword prompts

This one is a big deal with learning professionals. Maybe you’re venturing into a new subject and you don’t know what you don’t know. Ask ChatGPT for ideas around a specific topic/keyword and go use this before you meet with a SME to generate a healthy discussion around a topic.

Prompt: "Provide me with a list of 8 topics I can blog about for* teachers transitioning to a new career".

The meta description for your work?

Outsource the meta description to ChatGPT

Prompt: "Write a unique meta description for learning professionals in a corporate setting using OpenAi in their learning solutions"

Ad Copy

We all know that the old adage, “if you build it, they will come” doesn’t work for internal learning. So make your content sizzle with a fun writing prompt to generate interest in your course.

One of the best ways to generate ad copy is to inject two things into your prompts:

• Writing technique
• Character limit

Prompt: "Write a Slack ad copy for Sales learning using the before-after bridge technique that’s under 200 characters."

Final Thoughts

We hope that this brief list of examples fired enough synapses in your brain to think about how you can use ChatGPT in your next course. For those of you who think that this is the new automated check-out system that was supposed to take the jobs of millions of cashiers, maybe you’re right. But until the day comes when we have to bow down to the whims of our machine learning overlords, let’s see if they can simplify some parts of our job.

Answer in the comments below, how can you use ChatGPT in your next project?