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Instructor Guide

Facilitation plan, session timing, demo prompts, discussion questions, fallback options, and marking criteria.

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Instructor Guide — AI-Powered Digital HRM Future Lab

Presenter: Kushan Liyana Arachchige Website: https://kush.jp.net/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kliyana/

Workshop promise

In four hours, HRM students will explore how AI and digital technologies are reshaping HRM, then build a small AI-Digital HRM Prototype Pack using safe, responsible, and practical methods.

Format

  • Duration: 4 hours
  • Structure: 4 one-hour sessions
  • Audience: Bachelor’s HRM / Business students in Sri Lanka
  • Team size: 4–5 students
  • Required devices: Ideally one laptop per team; mobile-friendly fallback available

Team roles

  1. HR Strategist — keeps the idea relevant to HRM
  2. Prompt Lead — writes and improves prompts
  3. Creative Lead — handles visual and media ideas
  4. Ethics Guardian — checks privacy, fairness, consent, and dignity
  5. Presenter — delivers final 60-second pitch

Objective

Students map generative AI opportunities across the HR lifecycle and identify human-in-the-loop decision points.

Timing

  • 0–5 min: Pulse check
  • 5–12 min: Trend briefing
  • 12–22 min: HR lifecycle demo
  • 22–35 min: Team sprint
  • 35–45 min: AI output critique
  • 45–55 min: Human-in-the-loop challenge
  • 55–60 min: Exit ticket

Demo prompt

Act as an HR digital transformation advisor.

Create an AI opportunity map for a Sri Lankan hotel chain with 500 employees across Colombo, Galle, Ella, and Kandy.

Map AI opportunities across recruitment, onboarding, learning and development, employee engagement, performance support, and HR operations.

For each opportunity include: HR pain point, AI use case, benefit, risk, and human oversight needed.

Instructor prompts to ask

  • Which HR tasks should AI only support, not decide?
  • What changes when the AI has access to real employee data?
  • How would this differ for an SME vs a large bank?

Session 2 — Social Media, Gamification, and IoT in Digital HRM

Objective

Students design a digital HR experience blueprint combining employer branding, gamified learning, and IoT/smart workplace safeguards.

Timing

  • 0–7 min: Digital HRM trend wall
  • 7–17 min: Employer branding demo
  • 17–30 min: Team social recruiting sprint
  • 30–40 min: Gamified onboarding demo
  • 40–50 min: IoT ethics tribunal
  • 50–60 min: Share-out

Demo prompt

Act as an employer branding specialist.

Create a 7-day LinkedIn and Instagram recruitment campaign for a fictional Sri Lankan apparel company hiring management trainees from universities in Colombo, Kandy, Jaffna, Galle, and Kurunegala.

The campaign should be inclusive, realistic, appealing to final-year students, and focused on learning, career growth, sustainability, and teamwork.

Include three post ideas, captions, hashtags, and visual concepts.

IoT tribunal case

A logistics company in Colombo wants to use smart ID cards, wearable safety bands, and location sensors to improve attendance, safety, and emergency response. Employees worry the same data will be used to punish them for small breaks or slow movement.

Ask teams to vote: allow, modify, or reject.

Session 3 — Vibe Coding Websites and Apps for HRM

Objective

Students learn prompt-to-prototype thinking and create a safe HR micro-app or website concept.

Timing

  • 0–8 min: What is vibe coding?
  • 8–15 min: HR app prompt demo
  • 15–25 min: App design canvas
  • 25–45 min: Build sprint or mockup sprint
  • 45–55 min: Privacy teardown
  • 55–60 min: Demo gallery

Demo prompt

Build a simple one-page HR onboarding website for a fictional Sri Lankan hotel chain called GalleWave Hotels.

The website should include: welcome message, first-week checklist, training schedule, FAQ, contact HR section, and a simple progress tracker.

Design it to be warm, professional, mobile-friendly, and low bandwidth.

Important: use fictional content only, do not collect sensitive data, and do not create login or payroll features.

Safety emphasis

Students may prototype. They must not publish or collect real personal, applicant, employee, salary, student, medical, grievance, or disciplinary data.

Session 4 — AI Creative Studio for HRM

Objective

Students create or storyboard an HR media campaign using AI design, voice, avatar, image, and video tools.

Timing

  • 0–8 min: AI creative tool tour
  • 8–18 min: Canva AI demo
  • 18–28 min: Voice/avatar demo
  • 28–45 min: Team creative sprint
  • 45–55 min: Ethics review
  • 55–60 min: Final showcase

Demo prompt

Create a professional, modern social media carousel for a Sri Lankan university career center.

Topic: AI Skills Every Future HR Professional Should Learn.

Audience: Bachelor’s HRM students in Sri Lanka.

Style: clean, youthful, professional, inclusive, suitable for LinkedIn and Instagram.

Include five slides: hook, why AI matters in HR, three practical AI skills, three responsible AI rules, and call to action for a workshop.

Final team pitch

Each team has 60 seconds:

  1. Our fictional organization is…
  2. The HR problem we selected is…
  3. Our AI/digital solution is…
  4. The tools we used or would use are…
  5. The benefit for HR and employees is…
  6. The main risk is…
  7. Our safeguard is…

Low-tech fallback

  • Use printed canvases and scenario cards.
  • Instructor shows pre-generated AI examples.
  • Students critique outputs instead of generating them live.
  • Vibe-coding prototypes can become paper wireframes.
  • AI media outputs can become storyboards.

Marking / peer voting criteria

  • HRM relevance: 20
  • Creativity: 20
  • Practicality: 20
  • Responsible AI safeguards: 25
  • Presentation clarity: 15