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- Students and teachers can now try three new free AI courses of anthropic.
- Anthropic also appointed a Higher Education Advisory Board.
- Large -scale industry is investing in making AI accessible to students.
This year’s back-to-school season guarantees about a new classmate: AI. Some forms of technology are now ripened in most products – it is more ubiquitous than ever. Anthropic’s new education initiative wants to help people, students and teachers.
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Users can now use three new AI flow courses made with teachers, which help to create “responsible AI skills” for teachers and students, Anthropic declared on ThursdayThe courses are free to access and available under a creative common license to enable any institution to adapt them.
It comes at a time when knowing how to use AI, it is becoming a rapid in-demand skill. A linkedIn study has shown that employers would prefer to hire people who are comfortable using AI tools rather than a person with relevant experiences, but less confidence using AI.
AI flow course
New courses – AI flow for teachers, AI flow for studentsAnd Teaching ai flow – Create on the existing free AI flow course of anthropic, but is ready to university needs, which identifies anthropic “practical outline for thoughtful AI integration”.
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AI flow for teachers The course is to help teachers integrate AI into their teaching, whether it is helping to create materials or in increasing in-class discussions, according to anthropic. On the other hand, AI Fluten for Students Course helps students learn how to cooperate with AI with his research as well as AI who still develops his own skills – an equal framing similar to anthropic’s Silavaya Cloud for education chatbott. Finally, teaching AI flow courses are to help teachers to know how to teach AI literacy to their students.
All courses are free to reach, it includes a certificate of completion, and ranges from four to seven videos. The length of the course is digestible, even between 25 and 35 minutes. The release comes after launching a new learning mode after anthropic, which is available to all.
In Cloud Chatbot, the Learning Mode Chatbot helps people to reach the answer that they are asking through directed questions, imitating the Socratic method. While living in the cloud code, the explanatory teaching mode explains the cloud of how it reached the conclusion, while the learning mode fills for a collaborative coding process.
A education-focused advisory board
Anthropic also appointed a Higher Education Advisory Board, which included academic leaders to help shape how Cloud serves higher education. The board is chaired by Rick Levin, whose experiences include Yale University for 20 years and spend ten years in Korsera, as three CEOs.
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“Our role is to advise the company as it develops sound policies and products morally that will enable learners, teachers and administrators to maintain the highest standards of educational integrity and benefit from the transformative ability of AI, protecting student privacy,” Levin said in a blog post.
The advisory board, including five other experts, helped develop three new courses above.
Big picture
Anthropic’s efforts in education place are more supportive industry push to make AI more accessible and easily accessible to students.
Openai has recently created its own study mode for chatgpt, which is an anthropic, like an anthropic, by providing answers to work with the user to reach the conclusion. Meanwhile, Google is encouraging students to try AI tool by creating their $ 20 per month AI Pro Plan, including all the best equipment of Google’s AI suit for free.
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Google committed more than $ 1 billion for the financing of more free Google AI training programs over the next three years and launched a new Google AI for Education TourmerAn initiative that Google said “will offer free AI training, Google Career CertificateAnd Google’s most advanced AI device for free to each college student in America for free. ,
Despite these efforts, ROI is yet to be seen on using AI in education. While some benefits, such as reaching a personal tutor 24/7, are clear, the equipment is also being tracked the facility to cheat the effects of being easily accessible and to reduce significant thinking skills.
