By Marni Baker Stein, Chief Content material Officer, Coursera
Immediately, we’re excited to announce AI in Schooling: Leveraging ChatGPT for Educating, a brand new course from Wharton On-line designed to assist educators perceive the basics of GenAI instruments like ChatGPT. Specialists at Wharton created this course in collaboration with OpenAI, the AI analysis and deployment firm that pioneered the revolutionary mannequin.
Seventy-seven p.c of college at four-year establishments don’t assume their college is ready for AI-related modifications. AI in Schooling empowers college and highschool educators with important GenAI information and offers sensible methods to streamline and improve instructing whereas enabling college students to develop AI expertise. By an interactive expertise, learners will be capable to straight apply ideas utilizing OpenAI know-how.
“GenAI has the potential to profoundly rework training and make it extra impactful and tailor-made to particular person pupil wants,” stated Eric Hamberger, managing director at Wharton On-line. “Wharton On-line holds a deep dedication to delivering accessible content material from the AI specialists right here at Wharton that may empower educators to harness this transformative know-how and enrich the instructing expertise for all.”
The course is taught by famend Wharton professor Ethan Mollick, who was named one in every of 2024’s most influential individuals in AI by TIME journal, and Dr. Lilach Mollick, a extremely regarded specialist in pedagogy. By 4 modules, learners will:
- Grasp the important thing purposes of AI instruments like OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
- Discover the advantages and dangers of integrating AI workouts into instructional contexts, together with moral and privateness issues.
- Achieve perception into AI’s potential to boost instructing strategies and assist educators of their roles.
- Discover ways to successfully immediate AI, construct GPTs, and assess AI outputs utilizing your experience.
- Design and check AI assignments for college students.
On the finish of the course, paid learners will obtain a certificates from Wharton and OpenAI.
“It has been outstanding to see Wharton embrace OpenAI’s instruments throughout the establishment. Ethan and Lilach Mollick particularly have been a lighthouse for the training sector, experimenting, researching, and sharing insights into how educators can use AI to speed up studying. It’s thrilling to consider the wave of educators and college students who will be taught from him by way of this Wharton On-line course with Coursera,” stated Leah Belsky, VP and Common Supervisor of Schooling at OpenAI.
As one in every of Coursera’s founding companions in 2012, Wharton On-line has a longstanding legacy of democratizing entry to world-class training. We’re honored to proceed to work along with Wharton, and now OpenAI, to assist educators all over the place use AI extra successfully of their roles to enhance the coed expertise.