Planning AI Training for Business Educators

I've been working with small and medium sized businesses since the late 90s and since late 2023, I've shared my AI workflows with several hundred people who are running companies in Ireland. It's time to finally share the best part of my training syllabi with business educators. So I'm setting aside Friday the 23rd of May 2025 to show 30 third level business educators some of the process-based workflows I use with some of my favourite tools.

Hands-on AI Workshop

By the end of the five hour workshop, participants will have hands-on experience using AI tools on their laptops and mobile devices, a solid understanding of AI's capabilities and limitations in content creation, and the ability to evaluate and refine AI-generated outputs for use in educational and business settings.

Apps Used on Handsets and Laptops

I have 20 apps to demonstrate and people taking the training will drop in and out of 12 of them several times during the training day. I've discovered that the pace of learning accelerates if people put several apps on their handsets so they can record answers or capture information directly from QR codes on worksheets and on the projection screen.

I recommend getting these mobile apps so the training progresses faster: ChatGPT, Gemini, Lens, Perplexity, Slido, and Socrative Student.

Takeaways from this five-hour workshop

By the end of the workshop, participants should have hands-on experience using AI tools on their laptops and mobile devices, a solid understanding of AI's capabilities and limitations in content creation, and the ability to evaluate and refine AI-generated outputs for use in educational and business settings. Trainees leave with downloadable digital assets in Creative Commons format that can be easily integrated into lesson materials for third level business students.

Your Trainers Award Prizes

Each of the 11 hands-on timed tasks earn leaderboard points. Maths and CompSci lecturers incur handicap weightings. Printed worksheets accompany hyperlinked slide decks throughout the fast-paced training session.

The practical workflows that feature in each of the 12 minute scrums during the AI for Business Educators Workshop were developed by Frances O’Donnell, an Instructional Designer at ATU and Bernie Goldbach, a digital transformation lecturer at TUS. They have conducted workshops with Skillnet Ireland in County Tipperary as well as during education conferences in Germany (OEB24), Spain (INTED2025), and in Ireland (DEC24 and CESI25).