Cornell offers a growing collection of training, learning, and support resources to help you use AI effectively, responsibly, and confidently.
Additional Resources
Whether you're just getting started with AI or looking to deepen your expertise, Cornell offers a growing collection of training and learning opportunities and support resources to help you use AI effectively, responsibly, and confidently.
Because AI technologies continue to evolve rapidly, we encourage faculty, staff, and students to take advantage of a variety of learning opportunities, experiment with different tools, and engage with the Cornell community to share experiences, lessons learned, and best practices.
Cornell Opportunities
Cornell empowers faculty, staff, students, and the broader public to engage with AI effectively, responsibly, and critically. Through courses, an AI minor, staff development programs, and discipline-specific learning opportunities, the university builds AI literacy across technical, ethical, and societal dimensions.
AI Critical Literacy Program
The AI Critical Literacy Program is offered to all incoming students as well as interested faculty and staff.
The program features four modules:
- What is AI?
- Ethical Questions Surrounding AI
- AI’s Impact on Learning
- Creating an AI Policy for Personal Use
AI Training & Workshops
Cornell offers regular AI training sessions designed to help faculty, staff, and students build practical skills and explore real-world applications of AI.
- Study Design using AI: A recorded workshop from Cornell’s Statistical Consulting Unit focused on how to use AI when designing studies to answer research questions. (60 minutes)
- Data Visualization using AI: A recorded workshop from Cornell’s Statistical Consulting Unit focused on how to use AI to create plots and tables. (60 minutes)
Additional details, schedules, and registration information will be shared. Check back soon for upcoming workshops and training sessions or sign up for updates on events and opportunities.
Academic AI Courses
Choose from a wide range of courses that prepare you to shape AI. Explore machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, human-AI interaction, AI ethics, law, policy, and more.
AI Exploration Series
This one-hour Zoom workshop meets every other Thursday at 2 p.m. ET and is open to Cornell students, faculty, and staff who want to learn more about AI.
HR 3006: Everyday AI (Professional Development)
A series of professional development classes offered throughout the year covering AI topics of broad interest to Cornell staff, with a focus on practical skills and real-world applications.
eCornell
eCornell offers more than 40 noncredit courses, 20 certificates and 15 workshops on AI education. Learn more at eCornell.
Certificate Programs and Courses ($100 per course for Cornell employees)
Certificate Programs are fee-based learning experiences designed to develop specialized expertise for working professionals. Each certificate program is authored by Cornell faculty and consists of multiple short courses, each lasting 2—3 weeks with graded assignments and opportunities for live sessions.
Enrollment for employees with a NetID; for Weill Cornell Medicine.
AI Workshops (no cost)
AI Workshops are 2—3-hour faculty-led sessions designed to help you quickly build AI skills and strategies to be immediately applied at work.
Tool-Specific Training
Claude Academy
Claude Academy is Anthropic’s free online training and education platform. It’s a good place to learn about Claude's capabilities and features.
OpenAI Academy
OpenAI Academy is OpenAI’s free training and education platform. It’s a good place to learn about ChatGPT's capabilities and features.
Microsoft Copilot Skilling Center
Copilot Skilling Center is Microsoft’s free training and education platform. It’s a good place to learn about Copilot’s capabilities and features.
Important: Microsoft Copilot Basic is available to all Cornell faculty, staff, and students. Some Microsoft Copilot Skilling Center content covers Microsoft Copilot Premium, a paid version with additional Microsoft 365 integrations that is currently not available.
Explore Gemini
Explore Gemini is Google’s free training and education platform. It’s a good place to learn about Google's Gemini AI tools and capabilities.
Important: Google Gemini is not currenetly a Cornell-supported AI service. In the meantime, some students may have access through Google's education offerings. Public versions of Gemini do not provide the same privacy, security, contractual, or data protection safeguards as Cornell-supported AI tools.
Trusted Learning Platforms
Curated external learning resources available through Cornell.
When using external platforms, do not share confidential, proprietary, regulated, restricted, or otherwise sensitive Cornell information. Always follow university data handling, privacy, and security requirements
LinkedIn Learning
Current Cornell students, faculty, and staff have free, unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning's online library of high-quality training videos, including
In Building AI Literacy, you will learn how to identify where AI can help you streamline tasks and improve quality. Gain practical skills in crafting effective prompts, using AI tools, and collaborating with AI systems.
Workday Learning
Workday Learning offers a growing catalog of AI-related courses, workshops, and professional development resources designed to help faculty and staff build AI literacy, explore practical applications, and stay current as AI technologies evolve.
Learn more about Workday Learning at Cornell
Other Platforms
Community members may wish to explore the many external learning platforms (e.g. Deep Learning.AI, Elements of AI from the University of Helsinki) that provide AI-focused courses, tutorials, webinars, and certification programs.
The AI Innovation Hub is a collaborative space for the Cornell community to explore and experiment with AI. Here, faculty, staff, and students can build and test practical AI tools and applications that improve university operations and support Cornell’s mission.
Join the Teams Channel
Our Microsoft Teams channel is the place to ask questions, share discoveries, get early access to new tools and resources, and collaborate with colleagues across campus who are exploring AI in their work. Join us to stay in the loop.
Student Groups
Student organizations are an important part of Cornell's AI community, offering hands-on opportunities to develop technical skills, experiment with emerging AI methods, collaborate across disciplines, and apply AI to challenges that matter.