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3 Learning Experiences
AI for Creative Work
What You'll Learn
- Understand the relationship between creative work and AI technology
- Explore the fundamental connection between AI and human creative expression
- Learn skills to evaluate and employ AI tools successfully and sustainably
3-Course Series
14 hours
5 hours per course (approx.)
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About AI for Creative Work
This specialization helps you understand generative artificial intelligence’s role in creative work, including exploring AI tools, ethical and responsible use, and a big-picture look at AI’s impact on human expression. In each course, you will learn from video lectures featuring instructors and guest experts, reflective writing assignments, and hands-on work with AI tools. Through this material, you will explore the deep connections between generative AI technology and creative practice while also building concrete skills for evaluating and employing AI tools successfully and sustainably.
Skills You'll Gain
- User Analysis
- Problem Solving
- Ethical AI
- Critical Thinking
- Generative AI Agents
- Artificial Intelligence
- Creativity
- Creative Thinking
- Data Ethics
- Generative Artificial Intelligence
- Leadership
- Responsible AI
What You'll Earn
- Certificate of Completion
- Certificates of completion acknowledge knowledge acquired upon completion of a non-credit course or program.
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3 Learning Experiences
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Beginner Level
Specialists in any creative discipline, creative-adjacent workers, such as marketers, and directors of creatives can benefit from this series.
3 Courses in this series
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Free U-M Access CourseAI Basics and Tools for Creativity
Explore generative AI tools for design and music, analyze AI-generated media, and reflect on responsible creative applications.
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Free U-M Access CourseAI Ethics, Responsible Use, and Creativity
Evaluate generative AI tools using ethical frameworks, focusing on sustainability, bias, and responsible use in creative work.
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Free U-M Access CourseUsing AI to Expand Creativity
Explore how AI is influencing creative work and expand your approach to expression through history, tools, and experimentation.
What Learners Are Saying
AI can be a time-saver, but it can also be a mirror that gives you a new vantage point on your creative thinking and processes, reflects your tendencies back to you, and gives you a choir of voices instead of just one to carry your creative work to the finish line.
Garrett Schumann Lecturer, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
