Responsible AI Bootcamp for Edtech Practitioners

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7 Weeks

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Cohort-based Course

Learn advanced AI techniques and guardrails to build trustworthy AI edtech products using no-code platforms.

Experience from

Stanford University
Berkeley Lab
Plug and Play
Asana
Udacity

Course overview

Develop Core AI Skills to Build Learning Tools Responsibly using No-code Tools

We are currently launching the second pilot cohort with DISCOUNT CODE available. Submit application first and we will reach out 🚀


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The AI space moves fast—sometimes too fast.


New models launch weekly, tools multiply daily, and it’s genuinely difficult to separate signal from noise.


💡 If you are working in edtech, you’ve probably wrestled with questions like:

Which models are actually reliable for learning? How do you evaluate bias in AI tools?

What does responsible AI development look like when real students are involved?


In the rush to adopt AI, ethical and educational responsibility often fall through the cracks.


This bootcamp is here to change that. Learn the essentials, cut out the noise, and leave with a solid foundation of practical AI skills that you can then go on and upskill yourselves.



🌟 What we offer

Hands‑on ethical frameworks, no-code AI development tools, and real case studies of AI in education applications — so you can build trustworthy learning tools with confidence.


Above all, we create space for the conversations that matter most: what AI can (and can't) solve, for whom, and why.


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Our Approach: Nails and hammers, with Critical Perspectives


Our bootcamp structures around a simple 3-step framework:

Identify the nails — the unseen harms and ethical dilemmas that emerge when AI meets education

🔨 Apply the hammers — different LLM techniques and approaches that can address these challenges

⚠️ Acknowledge the limits of each hammer, and communicate proactively


We then take this learning process into practice:

- Bridging sociotechnical harms and biases with advanced prompting and RAG;

- Connecting design justice principles to actual workflows;

- Exploring the tension between equity and impact through hands-on fine-tuning exercises.


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What Makes this Bootcamp Unique?


Grounded in research, biased toward action

Distilling insights from critical AI in education (AIED) research as well as the latest AI research published by leading institutions such as Anthropic and Google Deepmind. Moving beyond jargon and buzzwords, applying these insights directly to edtech prototypes.


Decision-making over coding: leveraging no-code LLM platforms

Learning to use Dify.ai, a popular open-sourced, no-code LLM development platform, and Google AI Studio, enabling quick decision-making and implementation of LLM improvement techniques without getting into the nitty-gritty details of coding.


Multi-disciplinary perspectives

Building capacity in navigating the social, educational, and technical aspects of AI edtech, fostering effective communication with diverse stakeholders for co-creation and collaboration.



How This Bootcamp Benefits Your Career in Edtech?


🎯 Responsible AI is quickly becoming a core competency and competitive advantage in the edtech industry.


🎯 Practitioners who possess in-depth knowledge and hands-on skills in responsible AI are more effective in communicating and influencing product design and development decisions.


🎯 Companies and products that incorporate responsible AI techniques are more likely to build trust and adoption among education stakeholders, which leads to long-term, sustainable engagement.


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Who is this course for

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Edtech Product Managers, UXR/Designers, and Learning Engineers looking to upskill and gain hands-on experience of responsible AI

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Aspiring edtech Entrepreneurs and Founders passionate about building trustworthy and equitable AI products in education

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Teachers and Researchers interested in building edtech projects, incorporating responsible AI techniques

What you’ll get out of this course

Develop hands-on AI technical skills - Advanced prompt engineering, RAG, agentic workflows

Master no-code AI development platform such as Dify.ai and Google AI Studio


Apply responsible AI frameworks directly to edtech product design and development


Demonstrate your competencies with 3+ high-impact AI edtech projects

Building a culturally-responsive content generation tool

Designing a personal tutor with advanced prompting and RAG

Applying safety and evaluation guardrails to an auto essay grader using agentic workflows

Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audience on responsible AI


Putting everything together with your own capstone project


Bonus: Fine-tune your own LLM with alignment, using Supervised Fine-tuning (SFT), Synthetic Data Generation, and Constitutional AI

What’s included

Live sessions

Learn directly from your instructors in a real-time, interactive format.

Lifetime access

Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.

Community of practice

Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.

Certificate of completion

Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.

Maven Guarantee

This course is backed by the Maven Guarantee. Students are eligible for a full refund up until the halfway point of the course.

Course syllabus

15 live sessions • 34 lessons • 6 projects

Week 1

Sep 22—Sep 28

    Intro to Responsible AI in Education + Dify.ai

    • Sep

      24

      Week 1 Live Session

      Wed 9/242:30 PM—4:00 PM (UTC)
    8 more items

    Sep

    26

    Richard's W1 Office Hour

    Fri 9/262:30 PM—3:30 PM (UTC)
    Optional

Week 2

Sep 29—Oct 5

    ML/AI Harm Identification + Basic & Advanced Prompting for AI Edtech

    • Oct

      1

      Week 2 Live Session

      Wed 10/12:30 PM—4:00 PM (UTC)
    8 more items

    Oct

    3

    Richard's W2 Office Hour

    Fri 10/32:30 PM—3:30 PM (UTC)
    Optional

Week 3

Oct 6—Oct 12

    Power & Intersectionality + Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for Grounding

    • Oct

      8

      Week 3 Live Session

      Wed 10/82:30 PM—4:00 PM (UTC)
    5 more items

    Oct

    10

    Richard's W3 Office Hour

    Fri 10/102:30 PM—3:30 PM (UTC)
    Optional

Week 4

Oct 13—Oct 19

    Trust-Building in Product Positioning + Intro to Agentic Workflows

    • Oct

      15

      Week 4 Live Session

      Wed 10/152:30 PM—4:00 PM (UTC)
    5 more items

    Oct

    17

    Richard's W4 Office Hour

    Fri 10/172:30 PM—3:30 PM (UTC)
    Optional

Week 5

Oct 20—Oct 26

    Design Justice for Evaluation + Advanced Workflows & LM as Judge

    • Oct

      22

      Week 5 Live Session

      Wed 10/222:30 PM—4:00 PM (UTC)
    4 more items

    Oct

    24

    Richard's W5 Office Hour

    Fri 10/242:30 PM—3:30 PM (UTC)
    Optional

Week 6

Oct 27—Nov 2

    Capstone Kick-off & Guest Lecture on AI Governance

    • Oct

      29

      Week 6 Live Session & Guest Lecture

      Wed 10/292:30 PM—4:00 PM (UTC)
    • Nov

      1

      Optional: Office Hour by Learnest

      Sat 11/14:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)
      Optional
    1 more item

    Oct

    31

    Richard's W6 Office Hour

    Fri 10/312:30 PM—3:30 PM (UTC)
    Optional

Week 7

Nov 3—Nov 8

    Demo Day & Closing

    • Nov

      3

      Optional: Office Hour by Learnest

      Mon 11/33:30 PM—4:30 PM (UTC)
      Optional
    • Nov

      5

      Demo Day!

      Wed 11/53:30 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)
    1 more item

Bonus

    Supervised Fine-tuning, Synthetic Data Generation, Constitutional AI

    3 items

    Additional resources

    5 items

What students are saying

More voices

        With a perfect mix of research, practice, and ethics, this course is essential for anyone looking to design AI solutions that truly serve all learners and educators.
Hannah L.

Hannah L.

Assistant Professor of Education at University of Virginia
        This course offers the ability to learn and build at the unique intersection of AI, education, and ethics. I feel empowered to go out employ AI solutions in educational settings, while making sure we are using edtech products, tools, and data responsibly. Highly recommend to anyone in edtech, who wants support and community along the way!
Anvit G.

Anvit G.

Edtech/GenAI PM at ServiceNow

Meet your instructor

Richard Tang

Richard Tang

Founder & Entrepreneur & Data Scientist

Founder@Thinkvas AI (thinkvasai.com) 🌱 Reimagining Human-knowledge Interaction


Founder@Learnest (www.learnest.org) 🚀 Responsible AI in Education


7+ years in the edtech ecosystem pursuing edtech innovations, gaining deep and diverse experiences from academia, big and mid-market edtech firms, startups, and non-profit and philanthropic sectors.


MS, Stanford University 🌲

BA, University of California, Berkeley 🐻

Xinman (Yoyo) Liu

Xinman (Yoyo) Liu

Co-Founder, Learnest AI | AIED Researcher & Practitioner

With multidisciplinary experience spanning educational research, edtech development, and AI policy, Yoyo's work centers on creating systems-level changes for responsible and responsive designs of digital learning environments.


Yoyo holds a B.A. in Education, Policy, and International Development from the University of Cambridge and is currently pursuing an M.S. in Education Data Science at Stanford. Her published work includes research on edtech discourses, AIED ethics, and socio-emotional impacts of GenAI.

Sophie Chen

Sophie Chen

Team Lead, Learnest AI | Program Director @ Plug & Play Foundation

Sophie is a creative problem solver who spends a lot of time thinking through and creating value add in various aspects of life. She holds a Master's in Learning Design and Technology from Stanford University and brings expertise in learning sciences, mixed-methods research, and designing technology-enhanced learning. Her research and practice focus on understanding how students interact with educational technology and ensuring AI tools meaningfully support, rather than replace, human learning relationships.

Learnest AI

Learnest AI

Inspiring responsible and human-centered AI in education

Founded at Stanford University, Learnest is a leading 501(c)(3)

non-profit organization to promote impactful and human-centered innovations in education through training, community building, and research advancement.


https://www.learnest.org/

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Join an upcoming cohort

Responsible AI Bootcamp for Edtech Practitioners

Pilot Cohort 2

$999

Dates

Sep 22—Nov 8, 2025

Application Deadline

Sep 21, 2025

Time commitment

5 - 7 hours/week

  • Pre-live session course materials

    2 - 3 hours per week


  • Live Sessions

    1.5 hours every week


  • Weekly assignments and projects

    1 - 2 hours per week


Learning is better with cohorts

Learning is better with cohorts

Active hands-on learning

This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects

Interactive and project-based

You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams

Learn with a cohort of peers

Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you

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A pattern of wavy dots

Join an upcoming cohort

Responsible AI Bootcamp for Edtech Practitioners

Pilot Cohort 2

$999

Dates

Sep 22—Nov 8, 2025

Application Deadline

Sep 21, 2025

$999

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