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AI Fluency for educators

Helps faculty, instructional designers, and education leaders apply the 4D AI Fluency framework to course design, learning materials, and teaching practice.

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What you’ll learnBy the end of this course, you’ll be able to
  • Explain how the 4Ds of the AI Fluency Framework (Delegation, Description, Discernment, Diligence) apply to teaching practice
  • Build a reusable teaching context document that captures your pedagogical values, constraints, and student profile
  • Apply the 4Ds to identify essential course content, map the learning journey, and articulate measurable learning objectives
  • Create lecture slides, study guides, in-class exercises, and assessments through AI collaboration grounded in your established context
  • Use the Description-Discernment loop to evaluate and refine AI-generated materials against your students' needs
  • Practice Diligence by verifying accuracy, documenting AI's role, and maintaining academic integrity in AI-assisted course development

At Anthropic, we believe that empowering people with AI, and ensuring that AI makes safe contributions to society, requires engaging with a wide range of human perspectives and experiences. Responsible AI development and engagement isn't something any single discipline or viewpoint can fully address. It demands collaborative approaches that span a wide range of technical, creative, business, scientific, and educational domains. That's why we partnered with educators who bring complementary expertise to create this course on AI collaboration for educators.

This course empowers faculty, instructional designers, and educational leaders to apply the 4D Framework to their own educational practice. Participants will learn to apply the 4D Framework to their own teaching practice, using AI as a thinking partner to enhance course design, create coherent learning materials, and develop authentic assessments while modeling responsible AI collaboration for their students.

This course is the result of a long partnership between Anthropic and professors Rick Dakan from Ringling College of Art and Design and Joseph Feller from University College Cork. It builds on their experiences in training fellow educators and teaching the AI Fluency Framework to their students, and on feedback and questions that arose from our earlier course: AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations This course answers the question: how can I apply this framework to my personal teaching practice?

The work was supported in part by the Higher Education Authority (Ireland) through the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning.

Recommended prerequisites

This course lightly covers the foundational AI Fluency concepts. However, for deeper understanding, participants should complete AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations before beginning this educator-focused curriculum.

It is also recommended that learners have active teaching or curriculum development responsibilities as well as access to an AI chat tool for hands-on practice. Examples in this course will use Claude.ai, but any chatbot will work.

About this course

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After finishing the course, you will have the opportunity to take a final assessment and earn a completion badge.

Inside the course

Introduction and AI Fluency Framework

2 lessons

A summary of Delegation, Description, Discernment, and Diligence applied to student contexts

AI Fluency applications for educators

2 lessons

Applying the 4D framework to course design and learning materials.