Innovative Teaching with ChatGPT
Vanderbilt University · View on Coursera ↗
Taught by Dr. Jules White
Social SciencesData SciencePersonal Development
About the course
Despite what you may have heard, ChatGPT offers exciting possibilities for supporting innovative teaching and personalized education. This course provides practical techniques that any educator, from K-12 to higher education, can use to help support their teaching. No experience with ChatGPT, prompt engineering, or Generative AI is required. In this course, you will learn how to do exciting things to support your teaching and student learning, such as: 1. How to brainstorm lesson plans that in
The dissent
The most-upvoted critical review (2 votes, 2.0★).
“The other two courses by this instructor were excellent. This one, however, seemed to have been thrown together. It didn't have innovative ideas, and the fourth grader theme got tiresome. There were also many misspellings and other such issues.”
Coursera's 4.8 comes from 696 ratings. Of those, 1.6% are 1–2★.
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Reviews read on 23 Oct 2026.Read them on Coursera ↗