Wharton On-line and OpenAI launch a brand new course on Coursera, “AI in Training: Leveraging ChatGPT for Educating”

By Marni Baker Stein, Chief Content material Officer, Coursera

At present, we’re excited to announce AI in Training: Leveraging ChatGPT for Educating, a brand new course from Wharton On-line designed to assist educators perceive the basics of GenAI instruments like ChatGPT. Consultants at Wharton created this course in collaboration with OpenAI, the AI analysis and deployment firm that pioneered the revolutionary mannequin.

Seventy-seven p.c of college at four-year establishments don’t assume their college is ready for AI-related modifications. AI in Training empowers college and highschool educators with important GenAI information and gives sensible methods to streamline and improve instructing whereas enabling college students to develop AI abilities. By means of an interactive expertise, learners will be capable of immediately apply ideas utilizing OpenAI expertise. 

“GenAI has the potential to profoundly rework training and make it extra impactful and tailor-made to particular person pupil wants,” mentioned Eric Hamberger, managing director at Wharton On-line. “Wharton On-line holds a deep dedication to delivering accessible content material from the AI specialists right here at Wharton that may empower educators to harness this transformative expertise and enrich the instructing expertise for all.”

The course is taught by famend Wharton professor Ethan Mollick, who was named considered one of 2024’s most influential individuals in AI by TIME journal, and Dr. Lilach Mollick,  a extremely regarded specialist in pedagogy. By means of 4 modules, learners will:

• Grasp the important thing functions of AI instruments like OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
• Discover the advantages and dangers of integrating AI workout routines into academic contexts, together with moral and privateness considerations.
• Acquire perception into AI’s potential to boost instructing strategies and help educators of their roles. 
• Learn to successfully immediate AI, construct GPTs, and assess AI outputs utilizing your experience. 
• Design and check AI assignments for college students.

On the finish of the course, paid learners will obtain a certificates from Wharton and OpenAI.

“It has been exceptional to see Wharton embrace OpenAI’s instruments throughout the establishment. Ethan and Lilach Mollick specifically have been a lighthouse for the training sector, experimenting, researching, and sharing insights into how educators can use AI to speed up studying.  It’s thrilling to consider the wave of educators and college students who will study from him by means of this Wharton On-line course with Coursera,” mentioned Leah Belsky, VP and Basic Supervisor of Training at OpenAI.

As considered one of Coursera’s founding companions in 2012, Wharton On-line has a longstanding legacy of democratizing entry to world-class training. We’re honored to proceed to work along with Wharton, and now OpenAI, to assist educators in every single place use AI extra successfully of their roles to enhance the coed expertise.