Generative AI: Skills & Tools for Educators

Discover how generative AI can help you create engaging, personalized learning content and improve your productivity so you can enhance student outcomes. 

During this course, you’ll explore gen AI methodologies and best practices for implementing AI in education. You’ll look at how it can be used to create content, enhance personalized learning, special education, and adaptive learning. You’ll get hands-on with popular gen AI tools, including IBM watsonx, ChatGPT, Claude, and Khanmigo in education. Plus, you’ll investigate the ethical implementation of gen AI, considering privacy protection, bias mitigation, and the creation of inclusive learning environments.   

Throughout, you’ll hear from industry experts, who share insights on the future of gen AI in education. You’ll build your gen AI expertise in hands-on labs and interactive activities. Plus, you’ll complete a final project where you’ll apply all that you’ve learned to a practical, real-world scenario.  

Whether you’re an educator looking to revolutionize your classroom practices or simply want to streamline ad
ministrative tasks, this course will give you the gen AI skills you need to excel. Enroll today!

Prerequisites 

 

This course is designed for educators who already have an educational or teaching background and want to enhance their teaching capabilities using gen AI. You should have a fundamental understanding of gen AI and instructional design. The following courses in the Generative AI for Educators specialization can help you become familiar with gen AI basics and prompt engineering techniques: 

 

 

Objectives 

After completing this course, you will be able to: 

 

 

 

Course Outline 

 

This course is divided into three modules. You can complete each module at your own pace, but it’s recommended to set a goal of completing at least one module per week.   

 

Module 1: Gen AI Tools and Personalized Learning  
 

In this module, you will explore the landscape of educational gen AI tools and select them based on pedagogical needs, integration capabilities, and cost considerations. You will also learn to evaluate the effectiveness of AI tools for different teaching requirements and identify principles for AI-enhanced personalized learning and advanced content customization techniques. Finally, you will be able to leverage AI-powered tools for content creation and implement strategies for differentiating instruction using AI-powered resources.  

 

 

 

Module 2: AI Integration and Performance Assessment 
 

This module introduces you to how to integrate AI tools seamlessly into teaching practices and leverage them for learners’ evaluation. You will gain insight into designing AI-enhanced lesson planning aligning them with learning objectives. Additionally, you will learn to create assessment strategies using gen AI tools to gauge learners’ mastery of concepts and analyze AI-generated performance data. Finally, you will be able to leverage AI-powered feedback mechanisms to provide timely, data-driven insights that support learners’ growth and continuous improvement.  

 

 
Module 3: Ethical Implementation and Applied Project 

 

This module helps address ethical considerations while implementing gen AI in education, recognize bias, and develop its mitigation strategies. You will also learn to design data privacy protection strategies for AI integration. 

 

This module includes storyline interactivity based on the ethical guidelines while implementing gen AI in education.  

 

The module includes a final project based on the concepts covered in the course. In this module, you will attempt a graded quiz to test and reinforce your understanding of concepts. The module also includes a glossary to enhance comprehension of generative AI-related terms.   
 
 

 

Tools/Software 

In this course, you will explore no-cost versions of various gen AI tools and platforms, including: 

 

 

These tools are accessible via modern web browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Learners are not required to install these tools on their devices. 

 

Tips for Success 

 

Congratulations on taking this step to elevate your teaching career with gen AI! Enjoy your learning journey.