Artificial Intelligence (AI) Demystified

Course Description

This course is offered on by the University of Nebraska Kearney on our UNK Advance platform in partnership with the Online Learning Consortium. Artificial intelligence as a research field has existed for decades, but only recently has this field produced a type of product that is widely available to the public. Generative AI tools exist for an increasing number of output formats, and the size and nature of their training data, as well as their producers, vary greatly between products and institutions. Understanding the most efficient, effective, and ethical ways to use these tools can be daunting, especially for those who do not have time to understand the complex ways these tools work.

This workshop is offered as a partnership between the University of Nebraska Kearney and the Online Learning Consortium and is designed to help educators, instructional designers, and other information and education professionals understand how best to implement, integrate, and collaborate with generative AI tools of multiple output types. It focuses on free, open access, and low-cost generative AI tools and instructs how to use general tools for both general and specialized use cases. Hazards, dilemmas, and other ethical concerns will also be discussed so educators can prepare for these issues in their own work and those of their students.