The End of Courses (And What Replaces Them)

AI promised to transform learning. The industry’s answer has mostly been to produce more of it: more static courses, faster. But producing a format that barely works any faster doesn’t make it work.

Lori Niles-Hofmann, author of The Eight Levers of EdTech Transformation and one of the most trusted strategists in learning, has been making this argument for years. Now the technology is catching up. Annee Bayeux, who spent a decade buying and deploying learning content at enterprise scale before co-founding Ardoise, is building the alternative.

Together, they explore three shifts that matter more than speed: personalization that adapts to each learner’s role and moment, contextualization that connects learning to the real work and real stakes of each role, and experimentation that gives learners a safe environment to practice before performance counts and the stakes are real.

They close with a provocation: what new skills does the L&D leader need to make any of this work? The answer may require as much transformation inside the function as outside it.

The AI conversation in L&D has been dominated by content generation. More courses, faster. But what if the course itself has become the wrong unit of learning?

Three shifts matter more than speed: contextualisation, personalisation, and experimentation. In this webinar, Lori Niles-Hofmann (EdTech & AI Transformation Strategist, author of The Eight Levers of EdTech Transformation) and Annee Bayeux (Co-CEO and co-founder of Ardoise) explore what comes after the course.

Lori sets the frame. Annee brings the evidence from building it. They close by turning the lens on the profession itself: what does the modern learning leader need to become?

Bring your questions and your skepticism. Both are welcome.