Enhance your Teaching with AI

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Course overview

Designing with AI is a 6-week online short course that forms part of a suite of short courses that support blended and online learning design. Developed by the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT) at UCT, this course equips learning designers, educators, and trainers to understand, apply, and reflect on AI's role in teaching, learning, assessment, and research.

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Course details

  • Duration: 6 weeks
  • Dates:
    - Cohort 1: 03 Feb –16 March 2025;
    - Cohort 2: 07 July –17 August 2025;
    - Cohort 3: 01 September –12 October 2025.
  • Mode: ZOOM online event
  • Schedule: Webinars on Tuesdays & Thursdays at 16:00 until 18:00; Coaching sessions on Fridays at 14:00 until 15:00
  • Cost: ZAR 5500.
    - UCT staff are entitled to a 30% discount i.e. R3850.
    - All postgraduate students from any institution are entitled to 50% discount i.e. R2750.
    - Please request a discount voucher code from: pgbold@uct.ac.za BEFORE you make payment.
  • Registration Open: Enrol now via ⁠The Learning Store. If you have any questions, please email pgbold@uct.ac.za.
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Who should attend?

  • Academic Professionals and Educators;
  • Postgraduate Students interested in Teaching with AI;
  • Instructional Designers and Technologists;
  • Corporate Training Professionals;
  • Trainers in NGOs.
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Testimonials

"I thoroughly enjoyed your facilitation of the course - your care, competence, openness to suggestions and willingness to co-learn, as well as your empathetic orientations. It made for a pleasant course, and me looking forward to each new session during the course. I enjoyed the course content, the interactions (with yourselves, my group members, as well as other course delegates), the knowledge gained, the new 'friends' made, and the growth in my confidence as a result ... so thank you for an incredible experience!"

Prof. Kurt April, Director of the Allan Gray Centre for Values-Based Leadership, Graduate School of Business (GSB) University of Cape Town, South Africa

"As someone who was apprehensive and sceptical about the use of generative AI tools, not having much engagement with them before this six-week course, Designing with AI opened my mind to the possibilities that these tools offer within a higher education context. By identifying a challenge with a particular focus on how AI tools can help facilitate deep learning and meaningful engagement within higher education spaces, my project group came up with interesting ways to co-create with these tools (such as ideamap, Copilot, chatGPT, Claude, NotebookLM) toward addressing this challenge.

With a strong foundation in the ethical use of AI, and with the integration of group work alongside theory and personal practice, the course covers a lot in a relatively short span of time.

If you are considering participating, be ready to actively engage with the content, play around with various generative AI tools, and learn from the amazing contributors from various backgrounds and skillsets. Since completing the course, I’ve managed to begin sharing my learnings with colleagues, and integrate various AI tools into my work as a facilitator, researcher, capacity development specialist, as well as in personal projects and day-to-day functionality."

Janine Carlse, Capacity Development Specialist (ATAP Programme Manager), Postgraduate Studies and Researcher Development, University of Cape Town

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Learning objectives

After completing this course, participants will be able to:

  • Describe the workings of generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs);
  • Acquire foundations of prompt engineering;
  • Select and use AI tools to support teaching, learning, assessment and research;
  • Integrate AI into teaching, learning, assessment and research within a specific context;
  • Discuss and reflect on ethical practices in AI engagement within a specific context.
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Certification options

Two types of certificates will be issued for this course:

  • Attended: Attend 80% of workshops
  • Passed: Attend 80% of workshops, submit weekly reflections and group tasks, complete course evaluation and successful completion of the individual assignment. 

A letter of recognition will be issued for participants who meet most but not all of the requirements to pass the course: attend 80% of workshops, submit weekly reflections and group tasks, and complete course evaluation.

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Facilitation team

 

Browse Designing with AI on The Learning Store. For more info, contact pgbold@uct.ac.za.