Module 01
What is AI?
The three-part test for identifying an AI system. How training pipelines work. How large language models actually generate text — and why convincing output doesn't mean correct output.
The full AI ethics and policy curriculum for higher education. Each module takes a student between 45 and 90 minutes. Every module includes interactive exercises, branching scenarios, a live AI teaching assistant, and a scored assessment. Completing all eight earns an institutional certificate.
The three-part test for identifying an AI system. How training pipelines work. How large language models actually generate text — and why convincing output doesn't mean correct output.
Consequentialism, deontology, and virtue ethics applied to AI use in academic contexts. The difference between using AI as a tool and outsourcing thinking.
Training data bias, algorithmic discrimination, proxy discrimination, and fairness metrics. Real cases from hiring, criminal justice, healthcare, and education.
Data collection, FERPA implications for student records, consent mechanisms, facial recognition on campus, and the data broker economy.
Automation versus augmentation. Which jobs are most affected. Algorithmic management. Career planning in an AI-transformed economy.
The EU AI Act risk classification. US executive orders on AI. State-level legislation. Institutional policy development and shared governance models.
Synthetic media detection, epistemic challenges of AI-generated content, political deepfakes, and strategies for verifying content authenticity.
Capstone module. Students develop and defend their personal AI ethics stance. The AI teaching assistant challenges their reasoning and pushes for nuance.
A rate-limited, scope-constrained AI teaching assistant embedded in every module. Models responsible use by refusing to do the student's work.
Drag-and-drop sorting activities, branching scenarios, and gated frame progression. Students can't skip to the assessment without engaging with the material.
Randomized questions from a larger pool. Retake cooldown prevents gaming. Passing threshold configurable per institution.
Automated certificate generation on completion of all 8 modules, with public verification URL and emailed PDF to student and institution.
Deploy as SCORM 1.2 packages into Canvas, Moodle, or Blackboard, or integrate via LTI 1.3 with automatic grade passback.
Data encrypted at rest and in transit. US-hosted. Per-institution data isolation. Full audit trail on all data access.
Every module ships with a printable PDF study guide students can download from the results screen. Plus a consolidated 8-module reference bundle for offline study and instructor distribution.