Certificate of Completion

AI-Powered Higher Education

Higher education is undergoing a transformation—and educators and staff are positioned to shape it. This course helps you harness AI to improve student engagement, streamline instruction and support, and close feedback loops—ethically and effectively.

$280

Total: Course cost

5 Hours to complete

Duration

Online - self-paced
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Overview

Designed for college and university educators, advisors, and support staff, this course provides hands-on experience with AI tools to analyze data, streamline assessments and activity design, and strengthen the student feedback loop. Through project-based learning, you’ll create a portfolio-ready AI-driven Student Experience Blueprint that addresses a real student experience challenge in your professional context—whether instructional, advisory, or administrative. Along the way, you’ll practice ethical and inclusive design principles, with attention to bias, accessibility, and transparency. You’ll finish with a portfolio-ready project that showcases your applied skills, critical thinking, and vision for using AI to improve higher education.

Key Benefits

  • Use AI to enhance lectures, discussions, and instructional design
  • Improve feedback and grading while supporting academic integrity
  • Develop student-facing activities that integrate AI tools
  • Critically assess AI-generated content using frameworks like WEIRD and RACCCA
  • Create a ready-to-implement AI Teaching & Engagement Strategy

What’s Included

  • 4 engaging modules tailored to real-world teaching needs
  • Guided activities using tools like ChatGPT, Bard, and Claude
  • Opportunities to test and refine AI-generated content for your discipline
  • Case-based discussions around ethics, bias, and academic integrity
  • A final project you can use in your teaching portfolio or share with your department

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Course Modules

Explore how generative AI works, where it excels, where it can mislead—and why that matters in teaching and learning.

Who this course is designed for

  • Faculty seeking to integrate AI into teaching, feedback, or student engagement.
  • Instructional designers and faculty developers supporting digital learning.
  • Student services professionals designing workshops or support resources.
  • Adjunct instructors and TAs exploring efficient, creative AI use.
  • Department chairs and academic leaders seeking insight into AI in pedagogy.
  • Hybrid/online educators using AI to improve accessibility and connection.
  • Higher ed professionals guiding students in the ethical use of AI.

Outcomes

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:

  • Critically evaluate the capabilities and limitations of generative AI in the context of higher education.
  • Analyze student learning and experience data using AI tools to identify patterns, gaps and opportunities for intervention.
  • Design AI-supported strategies for teaching, engagement, and assessment that are ethical, inclusive and pedagogically sound.
  • Apply AI to student feedback loops to continuously improve programs, services and instruction.
  • Develop and communicate an AI-informed solution to a real-world student experience challenge in higher education.

Practical skills you will develop

This program equips learners with vital skills to thrive in today's complex workforce. Key skills include:

Instructional design with AI tools
Student engagement strategy
AI-integrated grading and assessment
Ethical evaluation of AI content
Use of WEIRD and RACCCA frameworks
Feedback loop design with AI tools

These skills directly apply to these careers

Professional Development Trainer

Delivers training and workshops to educators on integrating AI and emerging technologies into teaching.

Median Salary: $72,000

Faculty Development Specialist

Creates training and support programs that help instructors adopt new technologies and teaching strategies for improved student learning.

Median Salary: $74,000

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