Welcome to this course on mastering AI prompting. Your presenter is an AI avatar of Andrew Mowat, designed to deliver his expertise in education, professional learning, and AI-assisted thinking. While digital in form, this avatar shares Andrew’s insights, guiding learners through the art of crafting, refining, and polishing prompts for high-quality AI interactions.

In today’s rapidly evolving AI landscape, the ability to communicate effectively with AI tools like ChatGPT has become an essential skill for educators, professionals, and content creators. This course takes you beyond the basics, guiding you through foundational, intermediate, and advanced prompting strategies that maximize AI’s potential while maintaining ethical considerations and data security.

Through a structured and interactive approach, you’ll learn how to craft prompts that generate high-quality AI responses, refine those responses through iterative improvements, and apply strategic thinking to problem-solving, content creation, and decision-making. This course will empower you to not just use AI—but collaborate with it effectively.

🔹 The Fundamentals of AI Prompting – Understand how AI interprets prompts, processes information, and generates responses. Learn about priming, context-setting, and role-based prompting to get AI to act as an expert in any domain.

🔹 Intermediate Prompting Strategies – Level up your AI interactions by incorporating structured techniques such as few-shot prompting, chaining responses for logical flow, refining AI-generated content, and using AI for process recommendations.

🔹 Polishing AI Responses – Discover how to iteratively improve AI-generated content by refining prompts, requesting variations, and structuring responses for maximum clarity and impact. Learn to engage in a back-and-forth conversational approach to fine-tune AI’s output for teaching, research, business, and content creation.

Introductions

Introduction and Positioning

The Basics - Foundations of Prompting Chat Bots

A Guide to Optimising Your Prompts - Cheat Sheet

The Art and Skill of Prompting

Course Overview

Meet the course producers