Liverpool Business School's AI-Literacy Micro-Credential — Six-Week Online Badge for Business Undergraduates (LJMU)

Liverpool Business School at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) built a voluntary, online, asynchronous AI-literacy micro-credential for undergraduate business students. It runs for six weeks on Canvas (about ten learning hours); each week combines a YouTube lecture, curated readings or listening, and a submitted task, covering an introduction to AI, AI in business, generative AI, and AI's wider risks, challenges and future.
Assessment is formative (weekly quizzes and reflection). In the final skills activity students create content with generative AI tools to a brief, refine it and critically analyse it. Completers receive a digital badge as evidence of AI readiness.
Reported scale: 50 students completed the first cycle (Chartered ABS case study, 2 March 2026); by April 2026 LJMU reported around 100 completers and a further 100 in training. Feedback so far is initial and qualitative: students found the course valuable, stimulating and challenging and liked fitting it around degree study.
Caveats: the authors describe the work as early-stage with no formal evaluation data; many students already knew generative AI tools but were less familiar with wider benefits, risks and challenges; some finished the six-week course in a much shorter time. No learning-outcome or equity data are published.

Read the full analysis: https://charteredabs.org/insights/impact-case-studies/experimenting-with-micro-credentials-to-enhance-ai-literacy