UNESCO IITE and the International Centre for Higher Education Innovation under the auspices of UNESCO (UNESCO-ICHEI) have launched a series of Russian-language self-paced micro-learning online courses for higher education teachers to contribute to providing basic theoretical knowledge, practical strategies and empirical insights for effective and ethical integrating GenAI into teaching and learning.
The basic course helps teachers understand how GenAI impacts traditional teaching methods and learning experience and how it can be used to create lecture materials, tests, assignments and feedback tools.
A course for teachers who want to master effective methods of interacting with GenAI. It includes examples of optimal strategies for working with generative neural networks, analysis of efficient and flawed prompts, and techniques for optimizing queries according to various teaching tasks.
The course helps learners learn how to formulate learning outcomes and transform them into different types of assignments using AI, to develop criterion-based rubrics and set up automated grading, to generate detailed personalized student feedback, and analyze performance data.
The course supports teachers in guiding students’ interaction with GenAI toward achieving educational goals in academic, project and research activities making this interaction more effective and safer.
All online courses are self-paced and featured by clear learning objectives for each lesson, module and the overall course, structured and logical content flow, engaging and varied learning materials, and high-quality instruction delivered in engaging way based on real-world case studies. The courses are designed so that each course can be taken separately as self-contained thematic learning resource, or all courses can be studied sequentially as components of a more comprehensive professional development programme.
Learners who successfully complete test assignments receive certificates in Russian and English from UNESCO IITE and UNESCO-ICHEI. The courses are openly available on a free of charge basis on the online learning platform of the International Institute of Online Education (IIOE) provided by UNESCO-ICHEI. To access the courses, please register on the educational platform of the International Institute of Online Education www.iioe.org and select “Russian language” at the micro-certification section of the platform https://www.iioe.org/#/micro-cert/index.
