This course is for educators, administrators, and educational technologists interested in how GenAI could be used to impact teaching, learning, and governance in higher education and exploring the practical, social and ethical issues. To be successful in this course, you do not need prior experience with GenAI. A basic understanding of higher education teaching or management practices is beneficial.
Transforming higher education with Generative AI
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15 hours to complete
3 weeks at 5 hours a week
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May 2025
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There are 6 modules in this course
This module is a very short introduction to the way this course is organised and what you will be doing during the main modules. Please note that in the videos, we generally refer to weeks, suggesting that we think you might like to spend a week thinking about each of the main modules, but you can organise your study as you like. We want you to use this course to think about your own context in higher education, whatever it is. Whilst we use examples throughout to illustrate the course, don't feel constrained by them. Whether you work as a teacher, or in a library, or student support, or admissions, or any other role related to students in higher education, you can still think about the impact of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in your own situation.
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2 videos1 reading1 discussion prompt
This week, we are introducing GenAI – what it is, why it matters, and how it is transforming higher education. Even if you have started using GenAI, this module should provide some context about its impact in higher education.
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1 video7 readings1 assignment1 peer review1 discussion prompt
In this module, we are focusing on GenAI tools and how you can begin exploring their potential in higher education.
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2 videos7 readings1 assignment1 peer review1 discussion prompt
In this module, we want to introduce some of the ethical and social implications of GenAI use in an educational context.
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2 videos2 readings1 assignment1 peer review1 discussion prompt
In this module we will bring together learning from the previous modules to try out some uses of GenAI in your own professional context.
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2 videos3 readings1 peer review1 discussion prompt1 plugin
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