Courses and Training Resources for Educators

🎓 Courses and Training Resources for Educators

To empower faculty in integrating AI effectively and ethically, these resources offer practical guidance, ready-to-use tools, and strategies for AI-enhanced course design, teaching workflows, classroom discussions, and assignment planning. Perfect for professional development and faculty training programs.


Faculty Development and AI Best Practices


🧩Using AI to Assist With Course Design

🔗https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/ai-course-design/

Description :
Learn how to use generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot to support instructional design. This resource helps educators build structured courses with aligned learning objectives (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy), organize modules, and connect objectives to assessments.

What It Covers :

  • AI-assisted drafting of learning outcomes

  • Structuring content into effective learning modules

  • Course outline creation and alignment mapping

  • Example prompts and planning tips

  • Emphasis on human oversight and fact-checking

Educational Use :
Useful for instructional designers and faculty developing new courses or redesigning existing ones. Helps streamline curriculum development while preserving pedagogical quality.


📜 Developing an AI Syllabus Statement & Facilitating Class AI Discussion

🔗 https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/develop-an-ai-syllabus-statement/

Description :
This resource offers customizable AI use policies for course syllabi—ranging from prohibitive to permissive—and provides tools to guide student conversations about AI’s role in learning.

What It Covers :

  • Sample AI syllabus statements (strict, flexible, exploratory)

  • Key considerations: citation, collaboration, student autonomy

  • Questions to ask when crafting AI-related guidelines

  • Ideas for facilitating discussions on AI ethics and academic integrity

Educational Use :
Perfect for faculty setting expectations around AI use. Helps create a transparent, values-aligned classroom environment where AI tools can be used thoughtfully and responsibly.


⚙️ Using ChatGPT & Generative AI for Efficient Teaching and Work

🔗 https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/using-chatgpt-and-ai-for-teaching-and-work/

Description :
This resource explores how AI can improve faculty productivity. It includes practical ways to use tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity for instructional and administrative tasks.

What It Covers :

  • Drafting syllabi, course outlines, and learning materials

  • Summarizing academic texts or meeting notes

  • Providing feedback or generating quiz questions

  • Institutional compliance and ethical considerations

  • Prompting tips and recommended AI platforms

Educational Use :
Ideal for streamlining day-to-day academic work. Especially helpful for time-constrained faculty looking to automate routine tasks while maintaining educational integrity.


📝 Designing Assignments with AI in Mind

🔗 https://teaching-resources.delta.ncsu.edu/designing-assignments-with-ai-in-mind/

Description :
Encourages educators to incorporate AI directly into student work through thoughtful assignment design. This guide supports the creation of activities that prompt students to engage critically and creatively with AI tools.

What It Covers :

  • AI-integrated assignment models and prompts

  • Encouraging metacognition (reflecting on AI’s role)

  • Balancing AI assistance with personal understanding

  • Ethics-focused project ideas

  • Tools to promote creativity and originality

Educational Use :
Excellent for instructors in writing, communication, media, and technology courses. Helps students learn not just with AI, but about AI — preparing them for future academic and professional contexts.


✅ Free Gen AI courses & resources


🌐 Elsevier Library Connect: GenAI Literacy Program

📚 Three self-paced modules; “Foundations of AI”, “Benefits & Risks”, and “Responsible AI”, offer digital badges for scores ≥ 80%

🔗 Access Program


🖥️ NVIDIA Academy: AI for All & GenAI Explained

🚀 AI for All: From Basics to GenAI Practice

⏱️ Duration: 2.5 hours | 💰 Cost: Free

🔗 Access Course

🧠 Generative AI Explained

⏱️ Duration: 2 hours | 💰 Cost: Free

🔗 Access Course


🔍 Google: Generative AI for Educators

📖 Self-paced ~2 hours, culminating in a certificate. Helps with time-saving, personalized instruction, and hands-on use of AI in teaching

🔗 Generative AI for Educators

📈 Google Capacity Building Catalog “Grow with GOOGLE”

🔗 Access Catalog


Microsoft Educators: AI for Education

🎯 Free modules covering AI concepts, Microsoft’s educator tools, and Copilot integration, ideal for academic support staff

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 🏆 Certification Programs


📜 AI Foundations for Everyone Specialization (IBM)

💡 Gain a foundational understanding of Artificial Intelligence and its real-world applications across industries—no programming experience needed. Learn from IBM experts, explore core AI concepts like Machine Learning and Neural Networks, and discover how to use IBM Watson tools to build smart solutions. Through hands-on, no-code projects, you’ll develop and deploy an AI-powered chatbot on a website.

📚 Courses included:

⏱️ Estimated duration: 1 month at 10 hours a week


Google AI Essentials

🎯 Learn practical AI skills to boost your productivity—no prior experience needed. Taught by Google AI experts, this self-paced program shows how to use AI tools for brainstorming, planning, writing, and organizing daily work. You’ll also develop skills in prompt writing and responsible AI use. Earn a Google certificate to showcase your new capabilities in today’s AI-driven workplace.

📚 Courses included:

⏱️ Estimated duration: 1 month at 1 hour a week


🪄✨ Introduction to Generative AI

📖 This introductory microlearning course explains what Generative AI is, how it works, and how it differs from traditional machine learning. You’ll also explore types of Gen AI models, real-world applications, and Google tools for building Gen AI apps.

⏱️ Estimated duration: Approx. 1 hour


🤖 Generative AI for Business Intelligence (BI) Analysts

📊 Advance your BI career by learning how to apply generative AI across the business intelligence lifecycle. No matter your experience level, this self-paced program teaches you how to use tools like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot for data querying, visualization, analysis, and reporting. You’ll also master prompt engineering techniques and explore practical use cases through hands-on labs and projects.

📚 Courses included:

⏱️ Estimated duration: 1 month at 10 hours per week


🧠 Advanced & Niche Topics

📊 Understanding Data: Statistics, Science, and AI

🎯 Build essential data literacy skills to think critically about data, statistics, and AI—no math or programming required. This series helps you interpret research, analyze claims in media and advertising, and better understand the role of AI in modern data narratives. By the end, you’ll be able to support your arguments with credible data and communicate insights effectively in any field.

📚 Courses included:

⏱️ Estimated duration: 3 months at 10 hours per week


🌍 Generative AI for Everyone

👨‍🏫 Taught by AI pioneer Andrew Ng, this course introduces how generative AI works, its real-world applications, and its limitations—no technical background needed. You’ll explore practical use cases, learn effective prompting techniques, and go beyond basic use to unlock AI’s full potential in everyday tasks. Gain hands-on experience and insights to confidently participate in an AI-powered world.

📚 Courses included:

⏱️ Estimated duration: ~5 hours


Ⓜ️🤖 Artificial Intelligence on Microsoft Azure

🎯 Designed for beginners, this course introduces the fundamentals of AI and Microsoft Azure’s AI services. Learn key concepts such as machine learning, computer vision, NLP, and responsible AI. No prior data science experience required. Ideal for anyone preparing for the AI-900 certification exam, the course includes hands-on projects and helps build a foundation for future Azure certifications.

⏱️ Estimated duration: ~3 hours, self-paced


🛠️ Generative AI for Software Development

💻 Learn how to integrate generative AI into your software development workflow with expert instruction from former Google AI lead Laurence Moroney. Gain hands-on experience using LLMs like ChatGPT for tasks such as coding, testing, documentation, and system design. Master prompt engineering and discover how to treat AI as a powerful coding partner to boost productivity and code quality in real-world projects.

📚 Courses included:

⏱️ Estimated duration: 3 weeks at 3 hours a week


⚙️ IBM AI Engineering Professional Certificate

🎓 Get job-ready as an AI engineer with hands-on training in machine learning, deep learning, and generative AI. Learn to build and deploy AI models using Python and leading frameworks like TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, Hugging Face, and LangChain. Master supervised/unsupervised learning, NLP, LLMs, and real-world applications like chatbots, recommender systems, and RAG-based AI agents. Ideal for developers, data scientists, and ML engineers looking to build career-ready skills.

📚 Courses included:

⏱️ Estimated duration: 4 months at 10 hours per week


📚 Google IT Automation with Python Professional Certificate

💻 Developed by Google, this beginner-friendly program equips IT professionals with job-ready skills in Python programming, Git, troubleshooting, automation, and cloud technologies. Learn to automate system tasks, manage configurations at scale, and use GitHub for version control—all through hands-on projects. This certificate prepares you for roles like advanced IT Support Specialist or Junior Systems Administrator.

📚 Courses included:

⏱️ Estimated duration: 6 months at 10 hours per week


🤖 N8N FULL COURSE 6 HOURS (Build & Sell AI Automations + Agents)

⚡ N8N is an incredible powerful no-code platform. In this video I’m going to take you from zero to hero and teach you everything you need to know to make real money with the platform in just six hours. This is, to be clear, a full N8N course that explains all of the various bells and whistles of the tool plus exciting things like how to build real AI agents, how to put together procedural workflows, etc.

⏱️ Estimated duration: 6 hours


🖼️ Create Image Captioning Models

🧠 Learn how to build an image captioning model using deep learning. This course walks you through the key components—encoders, decoders, training, and evaluation—so you can generate image captions using your own models. Earn a skill badge by completing hands-on labs, video tutorials, and a challenge assessment.

📚 Module includes:

⏱️ Estimated duration: 2 hours


✅ Extra Gen AI Resources

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