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Applied AI certification

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A lesson-by-lesson look at the skills you'll practice, from your first AI conversation to a finished project you can show. No coding background needed.

3

parts

60

lessons

~8

hours

Part 01 · Foundation

Think With AI

Understand what AI does, where it falls short, and how to give it useful direction.

27 lessons · About 3 hours

01

Introduction to AI

2 lessons

  1. 01What AI is
  2. 02How AI adapts to you
02

How AI is changing work

3 lessons

  1. 01Where AI came from and where it's going
  2. 02Why knowing facts is no longer enough
  3. 03How to adapt as work changes
03

What AI can do

9 lessons

  1. 01Writing
  2. 02Research
  3. 03Images
  4. 04Video
  5. 05Audio
  6. 06Avatars
  7. 07Agents and automation
  8. 08Building apps
  9. 09Wearable AI
04

Think critically with AI

3 lessons

  1. 01When AI makes things up
  2. 02How to check its answers
  3. 03Why it responds the way it does
05

Give AI better direction

3 lessons

  1. 01What a prompt is and how to write one
  2. 02Search versus a conversation with AI
  3. 03A repeatable way to improve results
06

AI in real life

5 lessons

  1. 01Workplace communication
  2. 02Documents and presentations
  3. 03Analysis and insights
  4. 04Everyday life
  5. 05Personal growth
07

Your next step

2 lessons

  1. 01Your AI advantage
  2. 02Your human advantage

Part 02 · Practice

Work With AI

Use AI for real writing, research, analysis, and decisions you make every day.

20 lessons · About 3 hours

01

Better prompting

5 lessons

  1. 01Teach AI your context
  2. 02Ask AI to explain its approach
  3. 03Improve an answer instead of starting over
  4. 04Use AI to help write the prompt
  5. 05Build a personal prompt library
02

Set up your tools

6 lessons

  1. 01Five essential types of AI tools
  2. 02Working across tools
  3. 03Personalize your AI setup
  4. 04Build your first assistant
  5. 05Teach AI your brand
  6. 06Choose the right tool for the job
03

Put AI to work

5 lessons

  1. 01Work with long documents
  2. 02Turn policies into checklists
  3. 03Use AI safely
  4. 04Analyze data and make charts
  5. 05Research and bring findings together
04

Make it useful every day

4 lessons

  1. 01Judge the quality of an AI answer
  2. 02Turn rough notes into finished work
  3. 03Set up work that runs automatically
  4. 04Use AI as a tutor

Part 03 · Systems

Automate With AI

Connect steps into workflows, automate repeat work, and finish with something you've built.

13 lessons + final project · About 2 hours

01

Automation basics

6 lessons

  1. 01From one-off tasks to repeatable workflows
  2. 02How automation tools connect work
  3. 03Build a daily briefing
  4. 04Build workflows by describing what you want
  5. 05Work alongside an AI assistant
  6. 06Understand the time and cost tradeoffs
02

AI agents

5 lessons

  1. 01How agents connect to other tools
  2. 02Levels of AI agents
  3. 03Where autonomous agents are heading
  4. 04Build your first agent
  5. 05See a team of agents at work
03

Show what you learned

2 lessons

  1. 01Final assessment
  2. 02Final project

Leave with more than lessons.

Complete the assessment and a human-reviewed final project to earn a verifiable Applied AI credential.

  • Work you can put into practice right away
  • A final project that shows what you built
  • A credential others can verify

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