Thanks for enrolling in “Outsmart AI to Spot Misinformation and Evaluate Sources.” We’re so glad you found us. You might be here because you’ve heard about AI-generated misinformation like “deepfakes” and “hallucinations” and want to warn your students about it. Or you are wondering if it is even possible to spot misinformation now, when the fake media can be very convincing. (HINT: Yes it is!) 

Why take this course? 

• You want to support your students in finding accurate and reliable sources.
• You want to learn more about how AI is being used to produce misinformation.
• You are looking for strategies to spot misinformation, even if it was created with AI.
• You wonder if large language models like ChatGPT can be used to find reliable information.

More About This Course

If you’ve taken our course “Evaluating Online Sources: Checking Facts and Identifying Misinformation” already, you will find some of the lessons familiar. In this course, we’ll cover more specific information about how AI is making misinformation even easier to produce and how we can use professional fact checking strategies to spot it. Feel free to head straight to the topics you are most interested in. 

This course is divided into lessons that are a combination of text, images, videos and other interactive elements. You’ll finish up the course by taking a short quiz and putting together all of your learning in a final assignment: evaluating a source that may have been created with AI.

Upon completion of this course, you will receive a Certificate of Completion, equivalent to 3 hours of professional development.



You can go through the course at whatever pace makes sense for you, and review anything afterwards that you might have missed. In order to receive a certificate of completion, you will need to complete the assignments, pass the quiz, and finish the course within four weeks of starting it. If you don’t finish in time, no worries, you can always re-enroll. See you in the course!