Advanced AI for Educators: Deepen Your Practice, Earn 6 Quarter Units
Ready to Go Further?
You’ve built your foundation in AI. You know how to prompt effectively, troubleshoot issues, and bring AI into your work. Now you’re wondering what’s next. This course is for educators who want to find out what’s possible when you really develop your AI skills.
What Makes This Advanced?
This isn’t a survey of new features. It’s about developing genuine expertise in AI collaboration—the kind that comes from sustained practice on real work.In this course, you’ll take a project from initial idea to finished product, learning advanced AI capabilities and theories as you need them. You’ll build the skills and judgment to work with AI effectively across a constantly evolving landscape.What You’ll Do
Develop a complete project through six collaborative phases that each explore a different way to work with AI:
- Introduce: Establish context and set up your AI collaboration effectively
- Ideate: Co-develop your vision and explore possibilities together
- Investigate: Navigate research and unfamiliar territory with AI support
- Invent: Build something real through iterative creative work
- Iterate: Test, challenge, and strengthen your work with AI feedback
- Integrate: Formalize sustainable workflows for ongoing practice
What You’ll Learn
Advanced capabilities including agentic AI, research integration, model selection, advanced prompting techniques, and customization. These skills will be learned through use in your actual work, not abstract exercises.Foundational concepts like interpretability, alignment, and AI training that help you understand how these systems actually work and why that matters on personal, institutional, and societal levels.Critical evaluation skills for assessing emerging AI technologies and trends so you can make informed decisions as the field evolves.
What You’ll Gain
Documented experience making real decisions about comprehensive AI collaboration—when to lead, when to delegate, when to trust AI capabilities and when to override them.Reflective practices that help you learn from your work, adapt from experience, and refine your approach over time.The judgment and adaptability to continue growing your AI practice regardless of which specific features, capabilities, or trends come next.
Who This Is For
Educators who have foundational AI experience and want to develop deeper expertise. You might be a kindergarten teacher experimenting with AI in your classroom or a curriculum coordinator rethinking your department’s approach.What matters is that you’ve worked with AI before and you’re ready to get significantly better at it.
Why It Matters
AI capabilities keep changing. The specific workflows and features you learn today will evolve. What won’t change is your ability to collaborate with AI skillfully, exercise good judgment, and adapt as new possibilities emerge.You’ll develop the expertise that outlasts any particular platform or trend.
- Program Dates: June 29, 2026 to August 7, 2026
- Format: Online / Asynchronous
- Who this is for: those who have successfully completed the AI Capstone program.
- Cost: $325
- Units: 6 Quarter Units
- Details:
- The Certificate of Achievement in Artificial Intelligence Empowered Instruction equips educators with the knowledge and skills needed to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into teaching and learning. Building on foundational expertise in instructional technology and educational innovation, the program covers AI literacy, ethical considerations, and practical applications of AI in education, including adaptive learning technologies, AI-driven assessment tools, and responsible AI integration strategies. Students will explore current AI tools, develop AI-enhanced curricula, and critically evaluate AI’s impact on equity, accessibility, and student learning outcomes.
- Through hands-on projects and real-world case studies, educators will learn to implement AI technologies effectively while addressing ethical concerns such as bias and data privacy. Graduates will be prepared to lead AI-powered innovations in educational settings, support student engagement through AI-driven personalization, and advocate for responsible AI adoption in schools and institutions.
- Designed as a next step for graduates of related educational technology programs, this certificate provides a pathway to deepening expertise in AI-powered teaching and learning. It is ideal for K-12 educators, instructional designers, and education professionals looking to leverage AI to enhance instructional practices.
Skills You'll Gain
Program Instructors
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Kas Pereira
LINC Faculty (Instructional Design and Technology)Kas is in charge of curriculum development, course management, and instruction. She is also the Director of the KCI’s Makerspace and Makerspace programs.