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AI Learning Trailblazer Certificate

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Description of and requirements to earn these certificates listed below

Fall 2025 General Offerings

SDSU’s Academic Applications of AI (AAAI) Micro-Credential

Prepares you to apply generative AI (gAI) technology efficiently, effectively, and ethically to level up learning in the classes you teach. Online and asynchronous.

After completing this course, you will be able to:

  • Articulate and differentiate how language-based and image-based generative AI tools actually work.
  • Describe an action plan for ensuring student awareness of bias, privacy, and other ethical concerns inherent in using generative AI tools.
  • Construct a syllabus statement on using generative AI tools appropriate to at least one of your courses.
  • Understand the variety of popular generative AI options and selectively build a tailored toolkit appropriate to your academic work.
  • Iteratively refine prompt results leading to effective querying of generative AI.

Once you have completed the SDSU microcredential, upload the course completion certificate to this  form   to count toward the AI Learning Trailblazer certificate program.

Engaging AI Critically with Your Students

This "Viewing Only" offering of "Engaging AI Critically with Your Students" is being offered through the remainder of Spring 2025.  The videos and resources are available, but the credit-bearing Discussion Board is currently closed to increase informational access to more faculty.  Opportunities to earn LIAISONS  Certificate credit for this workshop will occur at least three times between Summer 2025 and Spring 2026.  This workshop will introduce you to:

  1. How Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT work
  2. Many of the problems associated with these tools, including
    1. Representative, allocative, and sample biases
    2. GAI Training, Toxicity, and Exploitation
    3. AI Sycophancy
    4. Misinformation and Info Manipulation
    5. Copyright and Equity
    6. Data Privacy
    7. Academic Integrity
    8. Environmental Risks and Benefits
    9. Employment Impacts & Futures
  3. Some of the potential benefits of using LLMs critically, with some example applications
  4. A rationale for integrating LLMs carefully and critically into your teaching
  5. Two videos on ethical questions in GAI by Phaedra Boinodiris, AI and ethics specialist.  

Spark Creativity with Adobe Podcast
Facilitated by Shelli Wynants

Explore creative ways to enhance your teaching with Adobe Podcast, a free tool available through our campus Adobe Creative Cloud license. This 1-hour virtual session includes a live demo of its easy-to-use interface and showcases how AI-powered features automatically improve audio quality for professional-sounding recordings. Join Dr. Shelli Wynants to discover dynamic ways audio can enrich student learning.

AI LinkedIn Learning Pathways (Online and Asynchronous)

New to LinkedIn? Read this article on how to access LinkedIn Learning with your CSUF username.

Generative AI: What is it? Understanding Ethics & Bias (LinkedIn Learning Beginner Pathway)

Explore the fundamentals of generative AI, its applications, and the ethical considerations surrounding bias in this 2.5-hour LinkedIn video series designed for staff and faculty. (2.5-hour certificate credit)

Generative AI: Using It to Amplify Aptitude Communication, and Critical Thinking (LinkedIn Learning Intermediate Pathway)

Advance your skills in generative AI with this intermediate 3-hour LinkedIn video series, designed for staff and faculty to enhance aptitude, communication, and critical thinking with AI. (3-hour certificate credit)

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Certificate Descriptions and Requirements

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AI Logo Level 1

Level 1 - Pathfinder

For beginners who are starting their AI journey and exploring new AI territories.

  • SDSU microcredential (self-enroll link)+ 2 hours of additional choices
    • Once you have completed the SDSU microcredential, upload the course completion certificate to this  form   to count toward the AI Learning Trailblazer certificate program
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AI Logo Level 2

Level 2 - Trail Seeker

For intermediate learners who are actively navigating and making progress on their AI journey.

  • Pathfinder + 4 additional hours
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AI Logo Level 3

Level 3 - Innovator

For advanced learners who are leading the way and creating new AI trails.

  • Trail Seeker + 3 additional hours  + Sharing an example of something they created with AI and a brief description of how they are using it in teaching or interacting with Titans
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