Coming to this a bit late but it's aged really well. The comparison between Study Mode, Learning Mode, and Guided Learning is still the clearest side-by-side I've seen.
Since you published this, Anthropic has gone further and built an entire free academy on Skilljar with 13 courses and certificates. The AI Fluency courses in particular take the Claude Learning Mode concept and turn it into a structured curriculum with proper assessments. I went through the full catalogue recently and wrote it up https://reading.sh/anthropic-is-giving-away-13-free-ai-courses-with-certificates-94e2c08623e2 if you're curious how the offerings have expanded.
The developer track surprised me most. Not just "use Claude" but full MCP server building and agent orchestration patterns. Have you revisited any of these learning modes recently?
Great article! I am a course creator. I’d love to create an AI tutor trained on my own course materials that students could use in study mode. Any idea how I could create this (and protect my IP)?
There are various ways to create something like this, Gail. One way is to create a Custom GPT trained on your materials and given detailed instructions about how to engage with students who use it. You can also pick from a variety of new AI platforms tools marketed to educators as being designed specifically for supporting your students while preserving your intellectual property.
Would NotebookLM be able to do the same? I mean, if you upload textbooks and a syllabus, will it aid in studying in the same Socratic Questioning style?
NotebookLM is tremendously useful for learning, but it's not tuned specifically for the socratic questioning approach. You can certainly ask it to provide helpful learning questions, and you can benefit from its audio and video overviews, mind maps, timelines, FAQs, and summaries. But it's not designed to guide you step by step through a learning dialogue in the way that these learning modes are.
This is wonderful, so well structured, and I am going to use GPT to delve into a subject (fascia) that I have been wanting to learn more about. Thank you.
Coming to this a bit late but it's aged really well. The comparison between Study Mode, Learning Mode, and Guided Learning is still the clearest side-by-side I've seen.
Since you published this, Anthropic has gone further and built an entire free academy on Skilljar with 13 courses and certificates. The AI Fluency courses in particular take the Claude Learning Mode concept and turn it into a structured curriculum with proper assessments. I went through the full catalogue recently and wrote it up https://reading.sh/anthropic-is-giving-away-13-free-ai-courses-with-certificates-94e2c08623e2 if you're curious how the offerings have expanded.
The developer track surprised me most. Not just "use Claude" but full MCP server building and agent orchestration patterns. Have you revisited any of these learning modes recently?
Thanks, JP. I couldn't access your link, but curious to hear more about your take on those AI fluency classes.
One of the best posts on learning through AI. I admire your work and look forward to more such insights. Kudos Jeremy !
Great article! I am a course creator. I’d love to create an AI tutor trained on my own course materials that students could use in study mode. Any idea how I could create this (and protect my IP)?
There are various ways to create something like this, Gail. One way is to create a Custom GPT trained on your materials and given detailed instructions about how to engage with students who use it. You can also pick from a variety of new AI platforms tools marketed to educators as being designed specifically for supporting your students while preserving your intellectual property.
Would NotebookLM be able to do the same? I mean, if you upload textbooks and a syllabus, will it aid in studying in the same Socratic Questioning style?
NotebookLM is tremendously useful for learning, but it's not tuned specifically for the socratic questioning approach. You can certainly ask it to provide helpful learning questions, and you can benefit from its audio and video overviews, mind maps, timelines, FAQs, and summaries. But it's not designed to guide you step by step through a learning dialogue in the way that these learning modes are.
Thanks!
I wonder if it'd be useful to do a comparison between NotebookLM and Study Mode, in as far as learning/studying goes...
This is wonderful, so well structured, and I am going to use GPT to delve into a subject (fascia) that I have been wanting to learn more about. Thank you.