Becoming an artificial intelligent competent teacher
Деталі курсу
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming education, yet many teachers feel unprepared about how to use it well or even where to begin. This course invites you into Project Rewind, a story-driven experience set between 2040 and 2026. In this near-future scenario, an AI system, originally introduced into European schools with the best intentions, gradually replaced human judgement. As a Project Rewind Agent, your mission is to travel back in time and rebuild the system from scratch.
The gamified narrative adds purpose and continuity, while the learning remains firmly grounded in real educational practice.
Structured around the UNESCO AI Competency Framework for Teachers, this course offers a practical, human-centred journey helping you see AI not just as a technical tool, but as a socio-technical system that shapes how you teach and learn in real classrooms. Grounded in principles of equity, inclusion, and learner wellbeing, this course examines why ethical and rights-based approaches matter in educational contexts.
Along the way, you will build concrete skills. You will explore how AI works, critically question and evaluate AI tools, and develop practical strategies for integrating AI into your teaching while maintaining your essential role as designer, facilitator, and critical mediator of technology in the classroom.
From your very first mission, you will apply what you learn. Early in the course, you will evaluate an AI tool using a structured framework, giving you an immediate confidence-building experience that you can apply to any AI tool you encounter in the future.
The course is offered by the European School Education Platform. Visit our website for more information.
Duration and workload
Start and end date: open-ended, you can take this course (or any section) at your own pace
Duration: self-paced
Workload: 15-20 hours
This self-paced course is already available online. It is adapted from a version that ran from Monday, 16 March to Wednesday, 22 April 2026. Designed for flexibility, it lets you explore content and complete activities at your own pace, no deadlines, live sessions, or required meetings. While the original course included scheduled discussions and peer reviews, this version allows independent learning with the same materials and guidance. Forum discussions and Padlet contributions will not be moderated, fostering a fully self-directed experience. To support reflection, you'll be encouraged to assess your own work using the provided criteria.
To make the course accessible to a wider audience, we’ve developed this self-paced format. This version allows you to explore the content and complete the activities at your own pace, whenever it suits you best.
What the self-study format means:
- Flexible schedule: You decide when and how to engage with the course materials. There are no deadlines, live sessions, or required meeting times.
- Independent learning: While the original course included discussions and peer reviews taking place in certain days and weeks, this format empowers you to work independently, using the same materials and guidance provided during the initial version. Please note that discussions in the forums and contributions on Padlets will not be moderated, allowing for a fully self-directed learning experience.
- Self-assessment: To replicate some of the reflective benefits of peer feedback, you will be encouraged to evaluate your own work using the provided assessment criteria.
Course competences
The recipient of this certificate has demonstrated proficiency of the following competences according to the digital competence framework of the European Commission's SELFIE for TEACHERs tool:
- Professional engagement – Reflective practice at C1 level
- Learners’ digital competence – Responsible use at C1 level
- Teaching and learning – Teaching at C2 level
- Professional engagement – Professional learning (about digital technologies) at C2 level
For more information about the competences and the proficiency levels see the SELFIE for TEACHERs toolkit.
Цільова аудиторія
This course is designed for educators from all school levels and subjects, as well as other school staff (librarians, school leaders, etc.) who are interested in developing comprehensive AI competency based on the UNESCO AI Competency Framework for teachers, including a human-centered mindset, AI ethics, a foundational understanding of AI technologies, AI pedagogy, and professional development in the age of AI.
Результати навчання
- Examine why human-centred, ethical approaches to AI matter in education, with attention to bias, data protection, and learner wellbeing, through case studies, hands-on experimentation with AI tools and peer discussions.
- Explain how AI systems work, including how models are trained and why limitations occur, by exploring interactive examples and analysing real AI outputs.
- Evaluate AI tools for educational appropriateness using structured criteria, applying your assessment to tools relevant to your own teaching context.
- Identify how to support differentiated learning, formative assessment, and inquiry-based learning, while fostering your students’ own AI literacy by designing AI-enhanced learning experiences.
- Create practical resources for your school context, by synthesising course learning into materials you can use immediately and share with colleagues.
Розробник
This content is offered by the European Commission. The European Commission is the European Union's politically independent executive arm. It is alone responsible for drawing up proposals for new European legislation, and it implements the decisions of the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union.
Розклад
- How this self-paced course works
- Module 1: Human-centred mindset and ethics of AI
- Module 2: AI foundations and applications
- Module 3: AI pedagogy
- Module 4: AI for professional development
- Certificate of completion
