At-your-own pace online courses

Through hands-on activities, these free courses showcase the practical ways you can use Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in your work as a public professional. We will also address the risks associated with these powerful tools, such as data privacy, hallucinations, and bias and how to mitigate them. Each course is at-your-own-pace. Videos are complemented by self-assessments and worksheets to support your learning. This two-course series was previously referred to as Responsible AI for Public Professionals: Using Generative AI at Work.

This two-part course guides public sector professionals through building impactful, responsible AI initiatives. Learn to align AI with agency goals, manage risks, and develop necessary skills. Free, self-paced, and open to all interested in using AI to transform government work.

This course is designed to help public professionals accelerate the process of finding and implementing urgently-needed evidence-based solutions to public problems. This course is brought to you in partnership with Results for America and Solutions Journalism Network.

This two-part course is designed for public sector legal professionals at all levels who are interested in learning more about safe and responsible individual use of GenAI tools. These free, online at-your-own-pace courses are designed for public sector lawyers and legal support staff to enable safe and responsible exploration and use of GenAI in your day-to-day work.

Open justice is a growing movement to use new technologies, including big data, digital platforms, blockchain and more, to improve our legal system by making the workings of our legal institutions easier to understand, scrutinize and, we hope, improve. This course is designed to help the public entrepreneur – passionate individuals like you.

Based on research with thousands of public servants across three continents, our problem-solving curriculum gives you the digital, data and innovation skills to deliver more effective, equitable and engaged policies and services.

Designed by Virginia Hamilton, this course gives participants a substantive overview of the human-centered design framework and offers opportunities to practice applying concepts from the course to your work.

This course is designed for decision makers, organization leaders, and those interested in helping their teams responsibly adopt AI, select and prioritize AI projects. This course was formerly titled "Responsible AI for Public Professionals: Scaling AI in Your Organization."

Designed for public professionals globally, the course responds to a common challenge in public service: many institutions know engagement matters, but lack clear guidance on how to do it well. Learners gain practical, design-focused skills for running engagement across contexts, including consultation, deliberation, co-creation, and other ways of listening to communities.

In this course, Professor Anita McGahan equips public professionals with practical strategies to design, test, and scale innovations—leveraging AI and new technologies and private sector collaboration to improve the public good.

Developed in collaboration with Partners for Public Good with support from the National Association for State Procurement Officials, this course will equip procurement and other public sector professionals with the skills to use Generative AI to improve competitiveness, effectiveness and efficiency in procurement.