Introduction to GenAI

This 2-hour course will assist analysts, managers executives, and other learners in their organization on how to discover, interact, and create with AI and generative AI. It also covers the ethical and responsible use of AI and explains the art of prompt engineering to help learners to explore the possibilities of AI.
  • Program Learning Objectives

    1) Recognize what AI and Generative AI are and are not
    2) Demonstrate how to thoughtfully engage with AI 3) Understand how you and others can be responsible users of AI
    4) Demonstrate knowledge of learning prompt engineering to create with AI
    5) Demonstrate how to use Generative AI for problem solving

What's included?

  • 2 Hour Video
  • 2 Knowledge Checks
  • Summary PPT Documentation

Course Structure

* Introduction
* Learners as users of AI
* Critical thinking in the age of AI 
* Considerations when working with AI 
* Create with AI
* 15 min Break
* Coding and AI
* Learners as changemakers 
* Knowledge check
* Capstone Exercise (Download Data, Load 
  Data, Plot Data, Clean Data, Run ML on Data,
  Summarize Results)
* Summary 
Meet the Director of RDT&E and Training

Jason R. McKenna, Ph.D., PG

Dr. Jason McKenna is the director of research, development, testing, evaluation and training (RDTE&T) at the Roger F. Wicker Center for Ocean Enterprise
Patrick Jones - Course author

Course Lessons