Certify Your Faculty to Teach with AI

Your trusted guide to integrating AI strategically in education.

Empower your institution with our framework-grounded certification programs. We provide a clear pathway for higher education faculty and leaders to move from uncertainty to innovation.

A Teaching with AI Certification...

Built for Educators, by Educators.

Framework-Grounded

Our curriculum is built on the proven FAFI, TEACH, and META frameworks, providing a research-informed foundation for your practice. This ensures you’re not just learning tips, but are on a clear pathway to verifiably grow your skills.

Pedagogy, Not Just Tech

We focus on what matters most: assignment redesign, inclusive teaching, and authentic assessment. AI is the catalyst, not the curriculum. Our programs are designed to enhance your teaching craft and create more human-centered learning experiences.

A Formal Credential

This isn’t just a workshop; it’s a multi-level certification that provides a verifiable credential for your professional portfolio and career advancement. Earn digital badges and certificates that formally recognize your advanced skills in AI-enhanced teaching.

Your Pathway from AI Awareness to Innovation

The Teaching with AI (FAST Track) is a series of three stackable online courses designed to build comprehensive faculty fluency. Start with the foundations and progress to become a leader in pedagogical innovation.

Level 1: Ignite

Foundations of AI in Teaching

The essential starting point. Move from uncertainty to confidence by exploring key AI tools, navigating core ethical challenges, and crafting a clear AI policy for your syllabus.

Level 2: Build

AI-Integrated Course & Assignment Design

The transformative core of the series. Actively redesign your assignments and assessments using the META framework to foster authentic learning and academic integrity. Completion of Level 2 earns you the “Certified to Teach with AI” credential.

Level 3: Elevate

Advanced AI Pedagogies & Innovation

The capstone for pedagogical leaders. Push the boundaries of your practice by designing innovative capstone projects, exploring AI for inclusive pedagogy, and preparing to become a leader in AI-enhanced teaching.

Ready to Upskill Your Entire Department or College?

We partner with institutions to deliver our certification programs at scale. Learn more about our licensing options, pilot programs, and custom consulting solutions designed to meet your strategic goals.

Built on a Foundation of Proven Frameworks

Our teaching with AI certifications are not just a collection of tips. Each course is built on a coherent ecosystem of research-informed frameworks designed for the real-world challenges of higher education.

Your certification includes access to these core toolkits.

TEACH Framework

For effective, human-centered pedagogy.

META Toolkit

For authentic AI assessment redesign.

FAFI Toolkit

For measuring faculty AI fluency.

SCALE Framework

For AI institutional strategy.

AI Fluency Index

For guiding students to achieve AI fluency.

Insights for Leaders

Stay ahead of the curve with practical AI insights for education and business.

Your University’s AI Strategy is Almost Certainly Backwards

Somewhere on your campus, in a sterile, beige conference room, the “Presidential Blue-Ribbon AI Task Force” is meeting for the third time this month. Around the table sits the CIO, a lawyer from the General Counsel’s office, the head of university communications, and a well-meaning Dean who’s been tasked with herding the cats. They’re looking at charts. They’re talking about server capacity, data security, enterprise licenses, and risk mitigation. They’re drafting another university-wide policy—a document

AI Literacy is First Aid. Your University Needs Surgeons.

Imagine your entire faculty has just completed a mandatory First Aid certification. They can all define “aneurysm,” apply a tourniquet, and perform CPR on a dummy. They are, in a word, literate in emergency medical care. Now, ask one of them to perform open-heart surgery. The absurdity of that request is the exact situation facing higher education today. We are in the midst of “Peak AI Literacy.” The landscape is saturated with awareness-level initiatives: These

Why TEACH Is the AI Pedagogy Framework Higher Ed Faculty Actually Need

Another email from the Provost’s office. Subject: “Updated Guidance on Generative AI.” It’s the fourth one this semester. It’s three pages long, filled with toothless platitudes about academic integrity and vague suggestions to “innovate.” It’s everything and nothing. It’s a document written by a committee to protect an institution, not to empower a single person standing in front of a classroom. This is the state of AI in higher ed. While universities are busy forming

Dr. Ryan Baltrip

An agent of innovation and digital transformation

For over 20 years, Ryan Baltrip has been helping nationally-recognized universities and nonprofit organizations navigate the online and digital learning landscape. As AI has the ability to affect all aspects of life, he founded Navigate AI to help other leaders prepare for a future where AI is a part of life.

Ryan created the Teaching with AI Certifications to empower educators to lead in the AI age without needing to be tech experts.