Create technology-based learning materials
Most of the output can be produced by software today.
This is the most automatable shape of work there is, and also the shape that most needs a live connection to the system the record lives in. Without that connection an agent can prepare the entry but cannot file it.
| How automatable | Mostly automatable |
|---|---|
| Kind of work | Recording, documentation and administration |
| Jobs that do it | 22 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | Tools and auth, Builders |
| O*NET activity | Documenting/Recording Information (4.A.3.b.6) |
What this looks like on the job
Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 22 occupations that perform it.
- Develop and maintain course Web sites.
- Develop and use multimedia course materials and other current technology, such as online courses.
- Develop and teach online courses.
- Develop and maintain Web pages for teaching-related purposes.
- Develop, maintain, and teach online courses.
- Develop teaching aids, such as instructional software, multimedia visual aids, or study materials.
- Use computers, audio-visual aids, and other equipment and materials to supplement presentations.
- Present information in audio-visual or interactive formats, using computers, television, audio-visual aids, or other equipment, materials, or technologies.
- Present information in audio-visual or interactive formats, using computers, televisions, audio-visual aids, or other equipment, materials, or technologies.
- Design instructional aids for stand-alone or instructor-led classroom or online use.
- Develop teaching materials, such as syllabi, visual aids, answer keys, supplementary notes, or course Web sites.
- Design learning products, including Web-based aids or electronic performance support systems.
What we would actually use
One recommendation rather than a shortlist, because a shortlist is just your problem handed back. This is what we would buy for recording, documentation and administration, and what it costs.
The work is not writing the record, it is filing it where the record lives. Make reaches most of those systems from $9 a month, which is the cheapest honest start; Composio is for when you are writing the agent yourself.
Chosen for the cheapest thing that does the job, not the best funded. Nothing on this site is sponsored, and the full landscape is there when you want to disagree with us.
The rest of the category
Context, not alternatives to weigh up. We name the layer rather than promise a named product does your specific task.
Matched from the kind of work, not from vendor marketing. Check any of them can reach the system your records actually live in — that connection, not the model, is where these projects stall.
How people actually do it
No workflow names this activity yet, but these automate the same kind of work, with the prompts to paste and what to keep for yourself.
Who does this work
22 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors
- Business Teachers, Postsecondary
- Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School
- Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary
- Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School
- Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education
- Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary
- History Teachers, Postsecondary
- Instructional Coordinators
- Kindergarten Teachers, Except Special Education
- Library Science Teachers, Postsecondary
- Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education
- Psychology Teachers, Postsecondary
- Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education
- Self-Enrichment Teachers
- Special Education Teachers, Kindergarten
- Special Education Teachers, Middle School
- Special Education Teachers, Preschool
- Special Education Teachers, Secondary School
- Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary
- Teaching Assistants, Preschool, Elementary, Middle, and Secondary School, Except Special Education
- Teaching Assistants, Special Education
Work that goes with it
O*NET groups these under “Prepare informational or instructional materials”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.
Method. The activity, its taxonomy placement and the occupations that perform it come straight from the public-domain O*NET 30.3 database. The automatability band is ours: we map each of O*NET’s 41 generalized work activities to how much of its output current software can produce, assuming a person still reviews and owns the result. It is a coarse three-way judgment on purpose. A precise-looking percentage here would be invented.