Poly Studio
Ivan Chagas is an instructional designer, an education specialist and a builder of educational products.
This is the page of Poly Studio and of the career of Ivan Chagas in instructional design and education since 2012, now applied to building AI-powered educational products.
Who is Ivan Chagas?
Ivan Chagas is an instructional designer, an education specialist and a builder of educational products.
His foundation is instructional design: planning how people learn and turning that plan into courses, learning paths and materials. He has worked in education for more than a decade, with over 20,000 students in his own courses. His experience with technology and AI came later, as an extension of that repertoire.
What is Ivan Chagas's career path?
1. Instructional design and education
In 2012, Ivan started out organizing educational events at AIESEC, in countries such as Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, France and China. In 2016 he founded Polímatas, a business community and school. In 2017 he took over leadership of Aldeia, with more than 50 in-person and online courses and about 5,000 students a month. During that time he was also Duolingo's global ambassador for educational events and created his first online course.
2. Poly Studio and instructional design for companies
In 2020 he founded Poly Studio, an instructional design agency whose clients included Sistema B, Utoo, PicPay, Bling, Qualifica and Ploomes. In 2021 the agency began serving clients outside Brazil. In 2024, Ivan worked at Sovos, TaxDome, Cisco and Amazon as an instructional designer and education specialist.
3. Today, at EduBuilders
Ivan founded EduBuilders, where he builds AI-powered educational products. Want to learn how to build educational products with AI? Check out the EduBuilders courses.
What are Ivan Chagas's areas of expertise?
- Instructional design and learning architecture: instructional design guide
- Lesson scripts, storyboards and learning objects: storyboard types
- Online course and learning path design: Instructional Design Fundamentals learning path
- Educational products and AI applied to education: areas of expertise
What are his education and certifications?
What has Ivan Chagas contributed to instructional design?
- What is instructional design
- Storyboard types
- How to write an online lesson script
- What learning objects are and why they matter
- Book recommendations on instructional design and related fields
- Learning path: Instructional Design Fundamentals
Instructional design projects in the portfolio:
Where does Ivan Chagas work today?
Ivan Chagas is the founder of EduBuilders, an initiative in technology, AI and educational products. Poly Studio is the instructional design knowledge archive he built, and it remains published here.