Learning Design in the Agentic AI Era

The rapid emergence of agentic AI has forced the learning and development field to confront a long-standing truth: most asynchronous online learning is not well designed.

AI-driven agents like Manus are ow able to autonomously completing traditional online courses—moving through static content, passing quizzes and even meaningfully contributing to online discussions.

The harsh reality is that this is not an AI problem — it is a learning design problem.

So how do we respond?