Gain a practical understanding of what AI is and how it’s transforming everyday tools, learning environments, and workplace productivity.

What you'll learn:

• What is AI?

  Definitions, key terms, and real-world applications in work and education.

• Tool Exploration

  Hands-on comparison of top chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and more.

• Practice and Trends

  Create your own AI image, try prompting tools in real time, and explore where AI is headed in 2025.

Learn how to craft clear and effective prompts to get better, faster, and more accurate results from AI tools.

What you'll learn:

• Prompting Fundamentals

  Understand prompting language, single-shot vs multi-shot, and how different tools respond.

• Tool Comparison

  Test ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, and Perplexity across different prompt types and input formats.

• Prompt Design Practice

  Use text, voice, and image-based prompts, upload documents and datasets, and build prompting confidence.

Use AI to design fair, personalised, and scalable assessments while maintaining academic integrity.

What you'll learn:

• AI in Assessment

  Understand how AI supports formative, summative, and diagnostic assessment models.

• Tool Evaluation

  Try tools like MagicSchool, POE.AI, Claude, and ChatGPT to design rubrics, critique responses, and generate feedback.

• Design and Ethics

  Explore frameworks like Leon Furze’s AI Assessment Scale, address data privacy, and apply AI ethically in grading.

Streamline and strengthen research tasks using AI—from gathering sources to summarising content and citing ethically.

What you'll learn:

• AI in Research

  Learn how to conduct academic and professional research using AI tools while maintaining ethical integrity.

• Tool Demonstration

  Explore NotebookLM, ResearchRabbit, Consensus, Perplexity, Elicit, and more for content analysis and synthesis.

• Practical Application

  Interrogate documents, generate citations, use voice interfaces, and plan research with emerging AI agents.

Build a complete course using instructional design principles combined with modern AI tools to save time and boost impact.

What you'll learn:

• Design Frameworks

  Apply UDL, Backward Design, Bloom’s Taxonomy, and the “Hook–Why–How–What–When” structure.

• Tool Integration

  Use AI platforms like Claude, Gamma, NotebookLM, Elicit, and Perplexity to create content and scaffold knowledge.

• Build and Align

  Create course materials, session flows, and assessments that are aligned with learner needs and outcomes.