Welcome to Ignite, your essential first step toward becoming a confident and effective AI-enhanced educator. In a world being rapidly reshaped by artificial intelligence, it is no longer a question of if we will engage with AI, but how. This 6-8 hour course is designed for faculty, instructors, and educational professionals who are ready to move from curiosity and uncertainty to foundational fluency and be recognized by receiving an AI in teaching certification.

Grounded in the TEACH and FAFI frameworks, this course will equip you with the mindset and skills to use AI tools responsibly, think critically about their implications, and begin making small but powerful changes in your teaching practice. We will prioritize a human-centered approach, ensuring that technology serves to augment, not replace, the core values of great teaching. By the end of this certification, you will have a clear AI policy for your syllabus and a personal action plan for your continued growth.

Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion of this certification, you will be able to:

Define “teaching with AI” through the lens of human-centered pedagogy (TEACH).
Assess your current AI fluency and identify personal growth areas using the Faculty AI Fluency Index (FAFI).
Experiment with foundational AI tools for common teaching tasks to increase productivity.
Identify core ethical issues in AI use, including academic integrity, bias, and fairness.
Draft a clear, student-facing AI use policy for a course syllabus.