AI Learning Trailblazer Certificate
Description of and requirements to earn these certificates listed below
Spring 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:
- How Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT work
- Many of the problems associated with these tools, including
- Representative, allocative, and sample biases
- GAI Training, Toxicity, and Exploitation
- AI Sycophancy
- Misinformation and Info Manipulation
- Copyright and Equity
- Data Privacy
- Academic Integrity
- Environmental Risks and Benefits
- Employment Impacts & Futures
- Some of the potential benefits of using LLMs critically, with some example applications
- A rationale for integrating LLMs carefully and critically into your teaching
- Two videos on ethical questions in GAI by Phaedra Boinodiris, AI and ethics specialist.
Enhance Your Teaching with AI: Khanmigo Teacher Tools Demo
Facilitated by Shelli Wynants
Join us for an introductory demonstration of Khanmigo Teacher Tools, now accessible directly from your Canvas sidebar!
Writing Your AI-Ready Syllabus Policies
Facilitated by Leslie Bruce
In under an hour, this asynchronous WAC LIAISONS workshop will guide faculty through adapting their syllabi academic integrity policies for the presence of AI. Policy definitions, expectations, rationale, guidance, and repercussions will be modeled and explained. (1-hour certificate credit)
Adapting Major Assignments to Reduce AI Reliance
Taught by Leslie Bruce
Attempts to evade and detect generative AI use in coursework are never foolproof. To ensure student learning, we can adapt our assignments to better engage students. Focusing on longer assignments and projects, this asynchronous workshop introduces six strategies for reducing AI use in your favorite major assignments. (1-hour certificate credit)
Engaging AI Critically with Your Students
Taught by Leslie Bruce
Take this asynchronous workshop at your own pace. Learn some of the promises and perils of AI chatbots, explore ways to support critical thinking about AI in class, and draft your own in-class AI-infused activity for feedback. (2-hour certificate credit)
Using AI as Your Faculty Assistant to Reimagine Course Concepts
Facilitated by Dr. Shelli Wynants
Each 30-minute synchronous Zoom session will start with the same material about accessing a couple of common Generative AI models & basic prompting tips. The live demo example will change across sessions.
Wednesday, February 19 | 1:00pm - 1:30pm
Simplify Challenging Course Concepts
Use AI for simplified explanations and everyday analogies (30-minute certificate credit)
Wednesday, February 26 | 1:00pm - 1:30pm
Diversify Course Examples
Use AI to add diversity to your existing case studies/scenarios, quiz questions, etc. (30-minute certificate credit)
Wednesday, March 12 | 1:00pm - 1:30pm
Create Quiz Questions
Use AI to generate basic and applied quiz questions on web pages, articles, & documents. (30-minute certificate credit)
Wednesday, March 19 | 1:00pm - 1:30pm
Create Images
Use AI to generate simple images to add to your Canvas page, course assignment document, PowerPoint/Google slides, etc. (30-minute certificate credit)
AI and Academia Conference
Taught by Leslie Bruce and the FDC
The “AI and Academia” conference will convene faculty, administrators, and staff dedicated to learning more about AI in education. Panel presentations, roundtable discussions, and a keynote speaker will explore the possibilities and challenges of generative AI on campus. Please see the conference's shared presentation materials on the AI and Academia: Riding the Wave page.
Possibilities and Implications of AI for University Labor: Will it increase efficiency, reduce workload, or replace faculty?
- Friday, April 11, 2025, 12:00-1:30pm
A detailed description is coming. This will be a hybrid event held on Zoom and in PLN-420.
Ethics of Using AI for Scholarship & Tenure Application
- Friday, May 2, 2025, 12:00-1:30pm
A detailed description is coming. This will be a hybrid event held on Zoom and in PLN-240.
Teaching and learning with AI: Opportunities & Risks
- Friday, May 9, 2025, 12:00-1:30pm
A detailed description is coming. This will be a hybrid event held on Zoom and in PLN-240.
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
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
Level 2 - Trail Seeker
For intermediate learners who are actively navigating and making progress on their AI journey.
- Pathfinder + 4 additional hours
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
- Once you have an example of how you are using AI, share the example using the Level 3 (Innovator) - AI Trailblazer Certificate form