EBAC HIC MethodInstructional Design

Bring a real education challenge. Design, build and test a solution.

For teachers, coordinators, instructional designers, academic managers and training professionals who want to move beyond ad-hoc tool use and apply AI to real problems in learning, content, assessment, productivity and education management.

You work on a real challenge across the eight weeks and leave with a demonstrable educational solution, validation criteria and an application plan — not eight disconnected exercises.

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8 weeks · 20h live · applied project · no programming required

8
Weeks — applied journey
20h
Live sessions
5
Education roles with specific relevance
1
Real challenge as a cumulative project
How to join

The same program can transform your practice or your institution's capability

Joining individually does not mean working only on personal projects. Teachers, coordinators and managers can apply the project where they work. In dedicated cohorts, team problems and capabilities enter the journey design.

I want to join individually

For professionals who want to increase their ability to teach, create, assess, analyze and decide with AI.

  • Apply AI to a real professional-practice challenge
  • Move from isolated prompts to structured processes
  • Build a demonstrable artifact or workflow
  • Assess quality, limits and risk
  • Develop repertoire for career and internal leadership
I want to join the next cohort

I want to bring it to my institution or team

For organizations that want to build applied capability while their professionals work on real problems from their own education operation.

  • Create shared language and criteria
  • Work on problems from different professionals in the same journey
  • Turn individual good practices into reusable resources
  • Develop templates, workflows and protocols
  • Connect training to concrete organizational priorities
I want to talk about my institution
By role

What changes for your role

The program answers different problems depending on the role. Explore what each profile learns and builds — the real challenge remains the common core.

Teacher / Educator

Plan, adapt materials, assess and give feedback with AI without outsourcing pedagogical judgment.

See problems, learning and deliverable

Problems

  • Planning takes too much time
  • Materials must be adapted to different contexts
  • Individual feedback is hard to scale
  • Assessment must be rethought when students use AI

You learn

  • Use AI in planning without outsourcing pedagogical judgment
  • Adapt materials and activities
  • Design assessments and feedback
  • Automate suitable tasks with human review

You build

  • Teaching sequence
  • Activity
  • Assessment
  • Feedback system
  • Teacher workflow

Pedagogical Coordinator / Instructional Designer

Align objectives, practice and assessment and create reusable standards.

See problems, learning and deliverable

Problems

  • Inconsistent experiences
  • Variable material quality
  • Scattered tool adoption
  • Little alignment between objective, practice and assessment

You learn

  • Needs Analysis
  • Backward Design
  • AI-assisted Instructional Design
  • Building reusable standards

You build

  • Educational blueprint
  • Unit or experience
  • Institutional template
  • Production workflow
  • Review system

Academic Manager / Education Leadership

Prioritize experiments and structure adoption with risk visibility.

See problems, learning and deliverable

Problems

  • Many experiments, little prioritization
  • Tool investments without clarity
  • Institutional risk
  • Low visibility on what deserves scale

You learn

  • Prioritize use cases
  • Assess value, risk, data and feasibility
  • Structure adoption
  • Design proportional governance

You build

  • Opportunity portfolio
  • Adoption framework
  • Prioritization criteria
  • Training plan
  • Roadmap

L&D / Corporate University

Turn business needs into learning with practice and transfer.

See problems, learning and deliverable

Problems

  • Slow training production
  • Generic content
  • Business needs poorly translated into learning
  • Low transfer from training to work

You learn

  • Needs Analysis
  • Practice and simulation design
  • Content adaptation
  • Transfer evaluation

You build

  • Learning track
  • Simulation
  • Assessment
  • Production workflow
  • Development program

Multiplier / Education Innovation

Document good practices and turn individual experience into a shared asset.

See problems, learning and deliverable

Problems

  • Knowledge concentrated in few people
  • Experiments do not become replicable practices
  • Uneven team maturity
  • Colleagues do not know where to start

You learn

  • Document good practices
  • Create standards
  • Support peers
  • Facilitate adoption

You build

  • Playbook
  • Training kit
  • Internal workshop
  • Example library
  • Dissemination mechanism
Bring your problem

What education problem do you want to solve?

You do not need to arrive with a ready project. The first activities help identify, scope and turn a real need into a viable project.

Teaching and learning

  • planning
  • active learning
  • PBL
  • engagement
  • adaptation for different levels

Content and Instructional Design

  • courses
  • tracks
  • materials
  • scripts
  • multimodal resources

Assessment and feedback

  • rubrics
  • feedback
  • authenticity
  • integrity
  • assessment redesign

Productivity and education operations

  • reports
  • documentation
  • material preparation
  • repetitive workflows

Management, data and adoption

  • teacher development
  • indicators
  • prioritization
  • policies
  • governance

Your problem is not on the list? Bring it anyway.

The challenge

Using AI is not the same as improving learning

Teachers and institutions already experiment with AI tools. The challenge is turning that use into better pedagogical decisions, learning experiences and ways of working — without giving up authorship, quality, privacy or responsibility.

Tool without a clear problem

AI is used because it is available, not because there is a clear teaching, learning or operational need.

Productivity without transformation

Producing content faster does not automatically mean teaching or learning better.

Automation without criteria

The more AI enters content, assessment and feedback, the more important validation, authorship and professional judgment become.

HIC: two ideas, one method

The idea starts from High Individual Contributor: professionals who use AI to expand their capacity to analyze, decide, build and deliver. At EBAC, we believe this only truly works with Human in Control: people keeping judgment, evidence and responsibility for what AI does.

High Individual Contributor

More capacity to analyze, decide, build and deliver with AI.

Human in Control

People keep judgment, validation, evidence and responsibility.

Real integrating project

Apply the method to a relevant problem, product, service or opportunity, with mentoring.

More capability with AI. People stay in control.

EBAC HIC Method

From problem to applicable capability

Every synchronous HIC program starts from a real problem. The domain changes; the method core does not: learn only what is needed to build, verify, and prepare application and transfer with human judgment.

1

Frame

Define the problem, people, baseline, constraints, expected value, and success criteria before choosing technology.

2

Learn what is needed

Technical and methodological depth follows the challenge and participant role — not a fixed tool checklist.

3

Build

Turn learning into a solution, workflow, analysis, prototype, artifact, or decision that fits the context.

4

Verify and control

Test quality, evidence, risks, and limits while keeping review, accountability, and Human in Control.

5

Implement and transfer capability

Document, define ownership, and prepare next steps so the learning can be reused and improved beyond one person.

Implementation does not automatically mean production deployment: each context keeps its own security, approval, integration, and decision gates.

Institutional context

What kind of organization are you seeking training for?

The value of the program also changes by institution type. Explore what each context faces, develops and can build — without promising guaranteed systemic transformation.

Government / Public network

Train by maturity levels and take good practices to scale.

See context and application

What is usually blocked

  • Very different maturities
  • AI use without common guidance
  • Large-scale training with little context
  • Privacy, assessment and integrity risks

What the program develops

  • Common language
  • Training by maturity level
  • Pilots before scale
  • Quality and responsibility criteria

What can be built

  • Problem portfolio
  • Pilots
  • Practice kit
  • Multiplier plan
  • Expansion roadmap

Public school

Simple, applicable solutions with heterogeneous infrastructure.

See context and application

What is usually blocked

  • Little teacher time
  • Heterogeneous infrastructure
  • Diverse classes
  • Different digital literacy levels

What the program develops

  • Simple, applicable solutions
  • More efficient planning
  • Adaptable materials
  • Clear criteria for AI use by students and teachers

What can be built

  • Teaching sequence
  • Assessment
  • Teacher workflow
  • Activity kit
  • Simple protocol

Private school

A coherent AI-use proposal with autonomy and an institutional standard.

See context and application

What is usually blocked

  • Students already use AI
  • Pressure from teachers and families
  • Inconsistent rules
  • Tool purchases by hype

What the program develops

  • Coherent use proposal
  • Applied teacher training
  • Assessment redesign
  • Pilots before investment

What can be built

  • Guidelines
  • Assessment redesign
  • Practices by subject
  • Training plan
  • Institutional pilot

University / Higher Education

New assessment formats and teacher development without removing academic autonomy.

See context and application

What is usually blocked

  • Uneven adoption across faculties
  • Academic integrity
  • Assessment redesign
  • Teachers using AI in different ways

What the program develops

  • New assessment formats
  • Teacher development
  • Instructional Design
  • Institutional criteria without removing academic autonomy

What can be built

  • Blueprints
  • Assessments
  • Guidelines
  • Teacher development program
  • Pilots

Corporate University / L&D

Bring learning and performance closer with more efficient production.

See context and application

What is usually blocked

  • Courses disconnected from the business
  • Slow production
  • Internal experts hard to turn into learning
  • Hard to measure transfer

What the program develops

  • Better needs analysis
  • More efficient production
  • Contextualized experiences
  • Closer link between learning and performance

What can be built

  • Learning track
  • Simulation
  • Feedback system
  • Production workflow
  • Evaluation mechanism
Application

Applied Education Flow — from problem to practice

Technology comes after the educational need. The participant starts by understanding the problem, defines what must change, builds a solution proportional to the context and produces evidence to decide what to do next.

1

1. Diagnose

Who is affected, what the need is and how the problem is solved today.

2

2. Define

Objectives, evidence, constraints and success criteria.

3

3. Design

A suitable experience, activity, assessment, content or workflow.

4

4. Build

Use AI to accelerate research, production, adaptation, analysis or automation.

5

5. Verify

Pedagogical quality, accuracy, accessibility, authorship, privacy and risk.

6

6. Measure

Compare with the baseline using evidence appropriate to the problem.

7

7. Transfer

Document and turn an individual good practice into reusable capability when it makes sense.

Core Principles

  • Need before technology
  • Evidence before scale
  • Human judgment before automation
  • Objectives and evidence before tools
  • Explicit privacy and authorship
  • Transfer when the practice deserves to be shared
Curriculum Structure

Curriculum Structure

8 weeks with practical deliverables applied to the vertical context.

1

Week 1

Education problem, audience and baseline

Practice
Deliverable: Education Problem Brief

Identify a relevant teaching, learning, training or management problem and document how it works today.

Topics

  • •Stakeholders and learners
  • •Needs analysis
  • •Baseline, objectives and constraints
  • •Success criteria

Lab

Brief of the education problem

Validation criteria

  • Real, scoped problem
  • Documented baseline
  • Clear success criteria
2

Week 2

AI, critical judgment and augmented work

Practice
Deliverable: AI Work Harness applied to the project

Understand generative AI capabilities and limits and build a disciplined way of working with it.

Topics

  • •Prompting and context
  • •Assisted research
  • •Verification and authorship
  • •Bias, privacy and critical thinking
  • •When not to use AI

Lab

Work harness applied to the project

Validation criteria

  • Reproducible workflow
  • Explicit verification and human review
  • Documented use criteria
3

Week 3

Needs Analysis and Instructional Design

Build
Deliverable: Solution Blueprint

Turn the need into objectives, evidence and a coherent solution design.

Topics

  • •Learning outcomes
  • •Backward Design and ADDIE as reference
  • •PBL and problem/project-based learning
  • •Sequencing and cognitive load

Lab

Educational solution blueprint

Validation criteria

  • Objectives, practice and assessment aligned
  • Design coherent with the problem
  • Human review with quality criteria
4

Week 4

Content, experiences and multimodality

Build
Deliverable: First version of the main artifact

Build or adapt materials with AI while keeping pedagogical intent, accessibility and authorship.

Topics

  • •Text, presentations and activities
  • •Image, audio and video
  • •Adaptation and accessibility
  • •Human review

Lab

Building the main artifact

Validation criteria

  • Artifact tied to the problem
  • Pedagogical intent preserved
  • Accessibility and authorship verified
5

Week 5

Assessment, feedback and integrity

Build
Deliverable: Assessment & Feedback Design

Redesign assessment and feedback for a context where learners and professionals also use AI.

Topics

  • •Rubrics and formative assessment
  • •Feedback
  • •Authenticity and integrity
  • •Allowed/prohibited use and human review

Lab

Assessment and feedback design

Validation criteria

  • Clear assessment criteria
  • Integrity and authorship protected
  • Explicit human review
6

Week 6

Automation and education workflows

Build
Deliverable: Applied workflow or prototype

Identify repetitive tasks and turn the suitable ones into more efficient, verifiable workflows.

Topics

  • •No-code automation
  • •Copilots
  • •Generation and review
  • •Document processing and reports
  • •Human checkpoints

Lab

Applied workflow or prototype

Validation criteria

  • Workflow with human review
  • Documented review criteria
  • Applicable to the problem
7

Week 7

Evidence, data, accessibility and governance

Practice
Deliverable: Validation & Evidence Matrix

Test whether the solution is good enough for use and identify conditions needed for implementation.

Topics

  • •Learning evidence
  • •Process metrics
  • •Data and privacy
  • •Accessibility, risk and authorship
  • •Proportional governance

Lab

Solution validation

Validation criteria

  • Evidence appropriate to the problem
  • Risks identified
  • Clear implementation conditions
8

Week 8

Integrating project and transfer

Build
Deliverable: Demonstrable solution + documentation + 30-60-90 roadmap

Consolidate the project and decide how it can enter individual, team or institutional practice.

Topics

  • •Demonstration and evidence
  • •Limitations and documentation
  • •Peer development
  • •Implementation, owners and next steps

Lab

Final project consolidation

Validation criteria

  • Demonstrable solution
  • Clear documentation
  • Roadmap with milestones and owners
Transformation

Expected Outcomes

  • Identify where AI adds value in an education context
  • Turn a need into a structured solution
  • Use AI to research, produce, adapt and analyze
  • Build and review artifacts
  • Redesign tasks and workflows
  • Assess quality, risk, evidence, privacy and authorship
  • Document a solution and prepare implementation or dissemination
Application

Use Cases

  • Lesson planning with AI support
  • AI-assisted Instructional Design
  • Assessment and feedback with human review
  • Learning data analysis
  • Educational material production
  • Education automation workflows
  • Teacher development and dissemination

Deliverables

Individual

  • •Problem Brief
  • •Blueprint
  • •Main artifact
  • •Validation & Evidence Matrix
  • •Application roadmap

Squad/Team

  • •Prioritized problems
  • •Applied projects
  • •Reusable templates and workflows
  • •Shared criteria
  • •Dissemination plan

Institution

  • •Opportunity map
  • •Pilots
  • •Reusable assets
  • •Adoption criteria
  • •Training/transfer plan

Stack and Tools

Core (Required)

  • Generative AI assistant provided by the cohort
  • Documents, presentations and spreadsheets
  • Multimodal production environment
  • Instructional Design templates
  • Synthetic or sanitized data and scenarios

Optional

  • ○NotebookLM / grounded research
  • ○LMS and institutional tools
  • ○No-code/low-code automation
  • ○Video, audio and presentation
  • ○BI / data analysis
  • ○APIs or assisted development for advanced participants

Labs

  • Classroom scenarios
  • Cases from different subjects
  • Assessment simulations
  • Synthetic learning data

Differentiators vs Generic Training

HIC

  • •Pedagogical focus, not just technical
  • •Professional judgment preserved
  • •Ethics and privacy protocols
  • •Labs with real scenarios
  • •Ready-to-use templates
  • •Independence from paid licenses
  • •Education impact evaluation

Generic

  • •Generic technical focus
  • •Professional judgment not addressed
  • •No evidence or controls
  • •Generic or missing labs
  • •Depend on paid licenses
  • •No impact measurement
Program leadership

Alan Dantas — Managing Director, EBAC Business

Alan Dantas

Managing Director EBAC Business / Fundador Edugital

Academic coordination of HIC Education. Over ten years at the intersection of education, technology, and institutional transformation.

Alan Dantas leading an EBAC Business executive workshop on AI applied to education.

Managing Director of EBAC Business and founder of Edugital. Over ten years at the intersection of education, technology, and institutional transformation.

Training teachers and professionals. Creation of Instructional Design courses and methodologies.

Implementation, governance, and AI training in organizations of different sizes, including EBAC.

Teaching experience at institutions such as Ibmec, EBAC, and other educational organizations, combining pedagogical theory with applied classroom practice.

  • ✓Training of teachers and managers in Instructional Design
  • ✓AI implementation and governance in educational institutions

In-class demonstrations use simulated educational scenarios. Final pedagogical decisions remain under faculty and institutional responsibility. Faculty and guests vary by cohort.

EBAC in the field

EBAC operates inside companies

EBAC has been training market professionals for years: we know which skills the market is demanding right now — and where many teams still get AI wrong.

Instructor leading an executive AI workshop
Executive application

AI as a leadership and decision topic, not just a technical tool.

Corporate team after a training session
Team in the field

Hands-on workshops with professionals from leading companies.

Facilitator presenting AI governance concepts
Governance and culture

Building criteria, not just experimenting — from adoption to control.

Group of participants after corporate AI workshop
Real execution

Mixed cohorts of HR, leaders and specialists apply in practice.

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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

What does HIC mean and why does the name have two meanings?
HIC is an intentional wordplay that represents the two central ideas of the program. The starting point is High Individual Contributor: someone capable of using AI to significantly expand their capacity to analyze, create, decide and deliver. At EBAC, that capacity must be accompanied by Human in Control: people remain responsible for defining objectives, evaluating evidence, reviewing results, setting limits and making decisions. That is why we call our approach the HIC Method: expanding human capability with AI without outsourcing judgment and responsibility to technology.
How does the personalized integrating project work? Do I need to arrive with a ready project?
No. The integrating project is the practical backbone of the program: throughout the program, you apply the content to the same problem, product, service or opportunity relevant to your context. If you already arrive with a challenge, mentoring helps you scope, test and evolve the solution. If you don't know what to develop yet, the first activities and mentoring help you identify an opportunity, choose a viable scope and turn it into a project. The final format varies by vertical and challenge, but the goal is to leave with something applicable, tested and documented — not a sequence of disconnected exercises.
Do I need prior AI experience to participate?
Prior AI experience is not required. The program starts with fundamentals and includes guided labs. However, experience in the vertical area (education, finance, or development) is important to contextualize use cases.
Does the program include certification?
Yes, upon completing the program with approval (minimum 75% attendance, minimum grade 75, and approved project/application), you receive an HIC certificate mentioning the program (Education).
What are the practical labs like?
Labs use synthetic or sanitized data to protect sensitive information while simulating real scenarios from the vertical context. You will have access to templates, dashboards, and tools ready for immediate use.

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Important

  • •Does not replace the educator — the teacher remains responsible for pedagogical decisions
  • •Bias, privacy, authorship, assessment and academic integrity are explicitly addressed
  • •Institutional applicability, not just prompt engineering
  • •Avoid claims about learning without evidence
  • •Educational demonstration ≠ substitute pedagogical recommendation

What education problem would you like to solve with AI?

You do not need to arrive with the solution — nor with a fully structured problem. The program helps turn a real need into a viable project, build an answer and decide how to apply it with quality and responsibility.

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AI Applied to Education — EBAC HIC Method