Rachel Koblic
Designing Human-Centered, AI-Forward Learning Systems
I design learning systems that keep people at the center while building AI deep into how they work. Human-centered means the system stays accountable to how people actually learn, and to the judgment and relationships that make teaching matter. AI-forward means intelligence is part of the foundation, not a feature bolted on at the end.
Most of the work is in the structure underneath: making a subject legible enough for a machine to reason about, and defining what mastery actually looks like so a system can tell where a learner is. That's what I write about and prototype here.
Learning has been designed for humans to interpret—not for AI systems to reason about pedagogy.
When we drop materials written for humans into machines in hopes that intelligence will emerge... it doesn't.
Learning in the AI era requires pedagogy to be explicit—designed so intelligent systems can reason with it, not just perform around it.
Teaching the Machine to Teach: Toward a Human-Centered, AI-Forward University
A talk on the pedagogical harness around AI—knowledge graphs, win conditions, teaching rules, and feedback loops—and what it frees humans to do.
From Model to Mentor: Embedding Cognitive Apprenticeship in AI Agent Prompts
A chapter in The Pedagogical Promptbook on designing—and rigorously evaluating—an AI tutor that teaches the way expert mentors do.
Living & Learning With Aliens: The Complex Psychology of AI Anthropomorphism
A panel exploring what it means to live and learn alongside AI — and the case for building friction back in.
AI-Ready Teaching Stack
An interactive prototype tying together a knowledge graph, a tool-using tutoring agent, and a live evidence map—the working version of the ideas behind the Marshall talk.
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Synthetic Learner Generator
A tool for generating realistic synthetic learner personas to stress-test AI tutoring systems against the diversity of real students.
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