AI Pathways
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Microsoft: Curious about artificial intelligence? Want to understand what all the buzz is about? This module introduces you to the world of AI.
Unlock the power of AI in your business without writing a single line of code. In this course, you’ll discover how AI Agents can act as helpful digital team members—automating everyday tasks, answering questions, and guiding you through your work so you can focus on what really matters. Whether you’re running a shop, a charity, or a growing startup, you’ll learn the basics of how to AI Agents can streamline your processes and make your team more productive.
Microsoft: In this course, delve into how Microsoft 365 Copilot can streamline communication and power up your content creation. This learning path, crafted to be both practical and enlightening, spans three key modules. These modules will walk you through the basics of Microsoft 365 Copilot, showcase its versatility across various Microsoft 365 Apps, and offer advice on maximizing its potential. Designed with all professionals in mind, this beginner-friendly course requires no previous AI expertise.
Open University: The "Everyday Maths 1" course is a free, introductory program aimed at enhancing your mathematical skills for daily life. It serves as a preparatory step towards Level 1 Functional Skills in maths, designed to inspire you to improve your current maths skills and help you to remember any areas that you may have forgotten. By engaging with practical examples and interactive activities, you'll develop the confidence to apply mathematical concepts in various real-world scenarios, such as managing household tasks or advancing your career. To participate, you'll need access to a calculator, notepad, and pen. Upon completion, you have the opportunity to earn an Open University digital badge, showcasing your commitment to enhancing your numeracy skills.
Open University: Do fractions and decimals make you apprehensive about maths? Do you lack confidence in dealing with numbers? If so, then this free course, Numbers, units and arithmetic, is for you. The course will explain the basics of working with positive and negative numbers and how to multiply and divide with fractions and decimals.
Coursera with University of Pennsylvania: Computational thinking is the process of approaching a problem in a systematic manner and creating and expressing a solution such that it can be carried out by a computer. But you don't need to be a computer scientist to think like a computer scientist! In fact, we encourage students from any field of study to take this course. Many quantitative and data-centric problems can be solved using computational thinking and an understanding of computational thinking will give you a foundation for solving problems that have real-world, social impact. In this course, you will learn about the pillars of computational thinking, how computer scientists develop and analyze algorithms, and how solutions can be realized on a computer using the Python programming language. By the end of the course, you will be able to develop an algorithm and express it to the computer by writing a simple Python program. This course will introduce you to people from diverse professions who use computational thinking to solve problems. You will engage with a unique community of analytical thinkers and be encouraged to consider how you can make a positive social impact through computational thinking.
If you’re interested in a career in system administration but aren’t sure where to start, this course is for you. System administration requires skills spanning across many topics, and in this course, Robert McMillen helps you get started by providing an overview of the role, core skills and tools needed, and how to start and advance your career. Learn about managing on-premises, cloud, physical, and virtual implementations, as well as storage security and much more. If you’re looking for the skills necessary to continue your learning journey and earn a Career Essentials Certificate by Microsoft and LinkedIn to showcase your skills to employers, join Robert in this course.
Coursera: This is the first course in the Google Data Analytics Certificate. Organizations of all kinds need data analysts to help them improve their processes, identify opportunities and trends, launch new products, and make thoughtful decisions. In this course, you’ll be introduced to the world of data analytics through hands-on curriculum developed by Google. The material shared covers plenty of key data analytics topics, and it’s designed to give you an overview of what’s to come in the Google Data Analytics Certificate. Current Google data analysts will instruct and provide you with hands-on ways to accomplish common data analyst tasks using the best tools and resources. Learners who complete this certificate program will be equipped to apply for introductory-level jobs as data analysts. No previous experience is necessary.
University of Helsinki: The Elements of AI is a series of free online courses created by MinnaLearn and the University of Helsinki. We want to encourage as broad a group of people as possible to learn what AI is, what can (and can’t) be done with AI, and how to start creating AI methods. The courses combine theory with practical exercises and can be completed at your own pace.
DataCamp: Begin creating AI systems using models from OpenAI. Learn how to use the OpenAI API to prompt OpenAI's GPT and Whisper models. Are you ready to start creating systems and applications using AI? In this track, you'll learn how to use the OpenAI API in Python to begin creating diverse applications like chatbots, semantic search engines, and recommendation systems.You'll discover how organizations worldwide are building new AI products and features built on the OpenAI API. Through hands-on coding exercises, you’ll learn how to send prompts to OpenAI's GPT models to solve a wide range of real-world problems. You'll learn state-of-the-art prompting techniques to get the most out of these models. Finally, you'll learn to encode large text corpora to begin creating context-aware applications using embeddings.
Open University: Our lives depend on online services. Gain essential cyber security knowledge and skills, to help protect your digital life. We shop online. We work online. We play online. We live online. As our lives increasingly depend on digital services, the need to protect our information from being maliciously disrupted or misused is really important.
Open University: This free course, Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world, will develop your confidence and skills for life online, whether study, work or everyday life. It explores a range of digital skills and practices, including digital identity, digital well-being, staying safe and legal, finding and using information and online tools, and dealing with information overload. The importance of developing a critical approach to life online is emphasised throughout, whether consuming or creating information. You'll be encouraged to reflect on your own situation and to apply what you learn to real-life scenarios, using a digital skills plan to keep a record of progress. In this video, the course is introduced by Open University Chancellor and digital literacy champion Martha Lane Fox. Martha discusses the importance of digital skills in all areas of life and how this course will give you a unique opportunity to improve your digital literacy in an ever-changing world.