Odin Training

We've all sat down for a training session and been handed a printout of the slides with the lines beside them. The instructor advances through slides while everyone reads along. The slides carry the background, the key points, the examples, and the policy language, and the instructor narrates what is already on the screen. Nobody is fully listening because everybody is reading. That format is not a failure of design judgment. It is the downstream result of a documentation gap that has been...

Training video used to mean a camera, a presenter, a quiet room, and a long edit. In 2026, a growing number of training developers are producing finished video by typing a script and choosing a digital presenter. AI video avatars have moved from novelty to a standard option in the L&D toolkit, and the platforms behind them are now valued in the billions. Speed is the obvious draw. The harder question for experienced training developers is where avatar video actually improves learning, where...

Every learning technology vendor now claims its AI can build a course. For training developers who have spent years inside Storyline or Captivate, the useful question is narrower: can AI produce online learning that is genuinely better, not just faster to assemble? After testing it directly on two real modules, the honest answer is that AI changes some parts of e-learning development dramatically and barely touches others. This post walks through what happened when I rebuilt one module by...