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Practical Prompt Engineering with AI

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Coursera
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Paid Course
Languages

English
Certificate

Certificate Available
Effort

2 weeks, 6 hours a week
Sessions

Self-Paced
Level

Beginner
Subtitles

English

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Practical Prompt Engineering with AI teaches learners how to communicate effectively with generative AI to produce more accurate, useful, and efficient results. Through hands-on practice, learners develop prompting techniques for summarizing information, refining AI responses, conducting research, analyzing data, generating visualizations, and creating AI-generated images. Throughout the course, learners explore a variety of prompting strategies, including extractive and abstractive summarization, iterative prompt refinement, and structured prompting. They also gain experience using specialized AI tools—including Claude, predefined Custom GPTs, and DALL·E—to complete workplace tasks more effectively. Practical activities demonstrate how AI can support research, data analysis, content creation, image interpretation, and visual communication. By the end of the course, learners will confidently create effective prompts, choose the right AI tools for different scenarios, and apply practical AI techniques to improve productivity, communication, and decision-making in everyday work.

Syllabus

Summarizing with AI

Summarizing information effectively is an essential skill when working with large amounts of content. In this module, you'll explore prompting techniques that help AI generate clear, accurate, and purposeful summaries for a variety of situations. Through guided instruction and hands-on practice, you'll learn how to refine prompts, compare summarization approaches, and tailor AI-generated summaries to meet different communication and information needs. After generating a summary, compare it with the original content to confirm that the key ideas have been preserved. A quick review helps ensure the summary is both accurate and useful for its intended purpose.
Module Objective: By the end of this module, students will be able to use prompting techniques to summarize written content.

Advanced techniques for summarizing, analyzing, and visualizing with AI

As AI tools continue to evolve, selecting the right tool for the task is an important part of working efficiently. In this module, you'll explore advanced techniques for summarizing content, analyzing data, generating visualizations, and creating images using specialized AI tools and predefined custom GPTs. Through guided practice, you'll gain experience applying these tools to different types of information and learn how they can support research, communication, and data-driven decision-making. When working with multiple AI tools, compare the strengths of each one as you complete the activities. Building familiarity with their different capabilities will help you choose the most effective tool for future projects.
Module Objective: By the end of this module, students will be able to use AI to analyze data, complete excel tasks, create graphs and produce graphics.