Learn for Professors

16 resources — 6 curated for Professors, all free.

Curriculum-friendly resources you can use in Indian classrooms and labs.

Beginner — AI BasicsNo code needed11
Level BeginnerNo code neededFree

Google Experience AI for Educators

Google's free K-12 AI curriculum with classroom activities, teacher guides, and student worksheets. No prior ML knowledge required.

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Level BeginnerNo code neededFree

Google AI Essentials (Free Certificate)

Google's official 5-course AI certificate on Coursera — completely free to audit. Covers what AI is, how large language models work, using Gemini in daily tasks, and responsible AI basics. No coding. Perfect first course for anyone in India.

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Level BeginnerNo code neededFree

AI for Everyone — Andrew Ng (Free Audit)

DeepLearning.AI's most popular non-technical AI course. Andrew Ng explains AI strategy, machine learning, and what AI can/can't do — in plain language. Free to audit on Coursera. ~6 hours total. Ideal for managers, business owners, and anyone curious about AI.

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Level BeginnerNo code neededFree

Introduction to Generative AI — Google Cloud (Free)

Google Cloud's 45-minute free course explaining what generative AI is, how it differs from traditional ML, and how to use Google tools like Vertex AI. No prior experience needed. Available in English, with partial Hindi captions.

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Level BeginnerNo code neededFree

Microsoft AI Fundamentals (AI-900) — Free Learning Path

Microsoft's official free self-paced AI learning path covering AI concepts, machine learning, computer vision, NLP, and conversational AI. Prepares you for the AI-900 certification. ~10 hours. Works well on mobile, ideal for learners on limited bandwidth.

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Level BeginnerNo code neededFree

Google Prompting Essentials Certificate (Free)

Google's short free course on writing effective AI prompts. Covers the 5-step prompting framework, zero/few-shot prompting, and chain-of-thought techniques. Comes with a shareable Google certificate. Available for free to Indian learners.

Level BeginnerNo code neededFree

Responsible AI: Avoiding Bias in AI (Google, Free)

Google's free 45-minute module on understanding AI bias, fairness, and responsible AI use. Covers real examples relevant to India: language bias, demographic bias in hiring tools, and how to spot AI errors. Essential before deploying any AI in work.

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Level BeginnerNo code needed

Meta AI Literacy: Understanding Large Language Models

Meta's free educational resource on how LLMs (like ChatGPT and Gemini) actually work — tokens, training data, hallucinations, and limitations. No maths required. Helps you understand WHY AI sometimes gives wrong answers and how to verify output.

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Level BeginnerNo code neededFree

NASSCOM GenAI Primer for India — Free

NASSCOM's India-specific introduction to Generative AI: what it means for Indian industries, language challenges (22+ official languages), use cases for BFSI, healthcare, agriculture, and education. Free PDF report + online modules.

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Level BeginnerNo code neededFree

AI Ethics and Safety — Short Course (Anthropic, Free)

Anthropic's primer on AI safety, alignment, and responsible deployment. Covers what AI can go wrong, why 'hallucinations' happen, and how to use AI responsibly at work. Free, ~2 hours. Highly relevant for government officers and enterprise decision-makers.

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Level BeginnerNo code neededFree

Kaggle: Intro to AI and Machine Learning (Free)

Kaggle's completely free beginner track. Start from 'what is machine learning' to running your first model — no setup needed, runs in the browser. Used by 15+ million data learners worldwide. Works perfectly on slow internet via Kaggle Notebooks.

Intermediate — AI for WorkLight tools2
Level IntermediateLight toolsFree

AI-Assisted Research and Academic Writing (Anthropic/OpenAI)

How to use Claude and ChatGPT for literature reviews, citation management, paper drafting, and peer review responses. Covers academic integrity guidelines, how to disclose AI use in Indian journals (UGC norms), and prompts for Scopus-level research.

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Level IntermediateLight toolsFree

NPTEL: Deep Learning (IIT courses, Free + Certificate)

India's NPTEL platform offers free AI/ML courses from IIT professors (IIT Madras, Bombay, Kharagpur). Audio in English, subtitles in Hindi. Earn a certificate with proctored exam for ~₹1000. Trusted by Indian industry for hiring.

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Advanced — AI EngineeringTechnical depth3
Level AdvancedTechnicalFree

AI4Bharat Teaching Resources

IIT Madras open-source NLP tools, datasets, and lecture materials for teaching Indian-language AI in universities.

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Level AdvancedTechnicalFree

AI4Bharat: Building Indian Language NLP Models (Open Source)

IIT Madras AI4Bharat's complete open-source toolkit for Indian language AI: IndicBERT, IndicTrans2, Dhruva ASR, and Shrutilipi TTS. Research papers, training code, and datasets all free on GitHub. The starting point for building any Indian-language AI product.

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Level AdvancedTechnicalFree

IISc / IIT: AI Research Seminars and Lecture Series (Free)

Indian Institute of Science and IITs host free public AI seminars, lecture recordings, and reading groups. IISc's CDS department and IIT Bombay's CFDVS post recordings on YouTube. Best way to access India's frontier AI research community for free.

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