You Can Learn Ai For Free With These New Courses From Anthropic

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• Students and teachers tin now effort Anthropic's 3 caller free AI courses. 
• Anthropic besides appointed a Higher Education Advisory Board. 
• The manufacture astatine ample is investing successful making AI accessible to students.  

This year's back-to-school play astir guarantees a caller classmate: AI. Some shape of nan tech is now baked into astir products -- it's much ubiquitous than ever. Anthropic's caller acquisition inaugural seeks to thief people, students, and educators clasp it. 

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Users tin now entree 3 caller AI Fluency courses, co-created pinch educators, that thief build "responsible AI skills" for teachers and students, Anthropic announced Thursday. The courses are free to entree and disposable nether a Creative Commons license, enabling immoderate institution to accommodate them.

This comes astatine a clip erstwhile knowing really to usage AI is becoming an progressively in-demand skill. A LinkedIn study showed that employers would for illustration to prosecute group who are comfortable utilizing AI devices alternatively than personification pinch much years of applicable acquisition but little assurance utilizing AI.

AI Fluency courses 

The caller courses -- AI Fluency for Educators, AI Fluency for Students, and Teaching AI Fluency -- build connected Anthropic's existing free AI Fluency course, but are geared toward assemblage needs, which Anthropic identifies arsenic "practical frameworks for thoughtful AI integration." 

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The AI Fluency for Educators people is meant to thief teachers integrate AI into their teaching, whether that beryllium helping create materials aliases enhancing in-class discussions, according to Anthropic. On nan different hand, nan AI Fluency for Students people helps students study really to collaborate pinch AI connected their coursework responsibly successful a measurement that still develops their ain skills -- a akin framing to Anthropic's tailored Claude for Education chatbot. Lastly, nan Teaching AI Fluency people is meant to thief educators study really to thatch their students AI literacy. 

All of nan courses are free to access, see a certificate of completion, and scope from 4 to 7 videos. The people lengths are meant to beryllium digestible, too, lasting betwixt 25 and 35 minutes. This merchandise comes aft Anthropic launched a caller Learning Mode, disposable to everyone successful its Claude.ai chatbot and Claude Code, besides meant to promote progressive collaboration pinch AI alternatively of having it conscionable output answers. 

In nan Claude chatbot, nan Learning Mode helps group successful nan chatbot get astatine nan reply they are seeking done guided questions, mimicking nan Socratic method. While successful Claude Code, nan Explanatory learning mode makes Claude explicate really it arrived astatine nan conclusion, while nan Learning Mode leaves fill-in-the-blanks for a collaborative coding process.

An education-focused advisory board

Anthropic besides appointed a Higher Education Advisory Board comprised of world leaders to thief style really Claude serves higher education. The committee is chaired by Rick Levin, whose experiences see starring Yale University for 20 years and spending 10 years astatine Coursera, 3 arsenic CEO. 

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"Our domiciled is to counsel nan institution arsenic it develops ethically sound policies and products that will alteration learners, teachers, and administrators to use from AI's transformative imaginable while upholding nan highest standards of world integrity and protecting student privacy," said Levin successful a blog post. 

The advisory board, besides comprised of 5 different experts, helped create nan 3 caller courses above. 

The bigger picture

Anthropic's efforts successful nan acquisition abstraction are portion of a wider manufacture push to make AI much adjuvant and readily accessible to students. 

OpenAI conscionable precocious created its ain Study Mode for ChatGPT, which, for illustration Anthropic's, pivots from providing answers to moving pinch nan personification to get astatine a conclusion. Meanwhile, Google is encouraging students to effort AI tools by making its $20 per period AI Pro plan, which includes each of nan champion of Google's AI suite of tools, free to assemblage students. 

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Google besides committed complete $1 cardinal to backing much free Google AI Training programs successful nan adjacent 3 years and launched a new Google AI for Education Accelerator, an inaugural that Google said "will connection free AI training, Google Career Certificates, and Google's astir precocious AI devices to each assemblage student successful America for free." 

Despite these efforts, nan ROI connected utilizing AI successful acquisition is yet to beryllium seen. While immoderate benefits, specified arsenic having entree to a personalized tutor 24/7, are clear, nan impacts of having devices readily accessible that facilitate cheating and diminish captious reasoning skills are besides being tracked.