eLearning Industry's Guest Author Article Showcase [December 2025]

"AI can sound intelligent while offering biased or inaccurate responses. At the same time, millions of AI users accept the first answer they're given. Dr. Athena Stanley presents five critical questions to help users guide AI, verify outputs, and protect their agency. Can a platform that's typically used in corporate training become a therapeutic scaffold for clients with ADHD? Rio Fontanilla illustrates how therapists can leverage Learning Management Systems to create a structured, engaging, and empowering external brain for their clients."

"In the traditional model, students whose research proposals didn't meet the required standards were eliminated, often without feedback. Laleh Raeisy offers a framework for a hybrid research mentoring program that addresses this gap, changing how young researchers are supported. Advancing toward artificial general intelligence may require unifying symbolic reasoning with neural learning. Felix G. Hamza-Lup's insightful piece explores how combining explicit, rule-based knowledge representation with adaptive, weight-based models offers capabilities that neither approach achieves alone."

AI can appear intelligent while producing biased or inaccurate outputs, and many users accept first answers; five critical questions can guide, verify, and preserve user agency. Learning Management Systems can function as therapeutic scaffolds for clients with ADHD by creating structured, engaging, and empowering external supports for executive function. Skill mapping identifies capabilities, while judgment determines when and why to act; organizations need experience-based learning to develop both skills and business acumen. Hybrid research mentoring programs provide feedback and support to young researchers rather than eliminating them. Unifying symbolic reasoning with neural learning can yield capabilities neither approach achieves alone.

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