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The Pro · Professionals curriculum

You already solve real problems at work — the fastest way to add AI is to attach it to one of them. Pro starts from a genuine problem in your role and builds the smallest AI capability that measurably improves it.

6 units310 guided hours6 months · part-timeAdvanced · professional level
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The course at a glance

6 units · 310 guided hours

The full curriculum, top to bottom. Tap any unit to open its detailed record.

Built from first principles

Reasoning before tools, evidence before opinion

You already solve real problems at work — the fastest way to add AI is to attach it to one of them. Pro starts from a genuine problem in your role and builds the smallest AI capability that measurably improves it.

  1. Problem
  2. Understanding
  3. Reasoning
  4. Design
  5. Implementation
  6. Testing
  7. Reflection
  8. Improvement

Every unit runs the loop, then goes round again — deeper each time.

Core competencies

Built and assessed in every unit, not taught as an add-on.

Communication & collaborationCritical thinking & problem solvingCreativity & imaginationCitizenshipDigital literacyLearning to learnSelf-efficacy

Ethics & responsible practice

Woven into the real briefs and decisions each unit tackles.

Digital citizenship & online safetyData protection & privacyAI ethics, bias & fairnessEnvironmental sustainability (compute cost)Financial literacy & entrepreneurshipInclusion & accessibilityMental well-being & healthy screen habitsCareer & life skills
The units

6 units · 310 guided learning hours

Open any unit for its full record — learning outcomes, assessment criteria, competencies and grading.

Strand: Applied AI literacy 40 GLH Month 1 Internal portfolio

Key inquiry: “For a real task in my job, is AI the right tool — and which shape of AI fits?”

You ship: A capability map for your role: where AI helps, where it doesn’t, and the first target.

What AI is good at

  • Match tasks to AI shapes (summarise, extract, classify, draft, answer)
  • Judge where a confident wrong answer is unacceptable

Prompting well

  • Design, test and version prompts like real code
  • Get reliable structured output and validate it
Core competencies
Critical thinking & problem solvingDigital literacyLearning to learn
Ethics & responsible practice
AI ethics, bias & fairnessData protection & privacy
Hands-on practice
  • Audit your week for AI-suitable tasks and rank them.
  • Build a prompt that reliably produces usable structured output.
  • Reflection: where would you keep a human in the loop, and why?
Proficiency (Emerging · Proficient · Expert)
Emerging

Maps tasks to AI with support.

Proficient

Designs reliable prompts independently.

Expert

Produces a sharp, defensible capability map for a real role.

What you walk away with

A portfolio of 6 real, shipped artefacts

Not certificates — working things you built. Every unit ends in a real artefact you own, assessed to standard and ready to show a school, an employer, or an investor.

Unit 1

A capability map for your role: where AI helps, where it doesn’t, and the first target.

Unit 2

A versioned prompt system that produces validated structured output, with a small eval set.

Unit 3

A RAG assistant over real work documents, with an evaluation harness.

Unit 4

An automation or agent that removes a recurring task, with guardrails and logging.

Unit 5

An evaluation harness plus a cost-and-safety report for your AI feature.

Unit 6

A deployed AI tool with monitoring, a model/product card and an adoption plan.

Assessment

One proficiency rubric, Emerging → Expert

Every level describes the same evidence — a working artefact and the reasoning behind it.

Proficiency levelWhat the evidence shows
EmergingCompletes the work with guidance; the artefact functions for the core case and the practitioner can explain what it does and why.
ProficientWorks independently, handles real-world edge cases, evaluates the result, and justifies design decisions from first principles.
ExpertDelivers work adopted by real users or partners, reasons explicitly about trade-offs — cost, risk, safety — and extends beyond the brief with original contribution.
Read the full document (print / PDF)

The complete curriculum in one printable, saveable document.

Follow it through with a mentor in your corner

Every unit ends in a real artefact — assessed to standard and added to your portfolio.

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