AI in Education

AI in Education from the Enterprise Technology Association (ETA) is for the people who teach and run learning: K-12 teachers and staff, college faculty and administrators, instructional designers and coaches, and workforce and corporate training teams. AI can help plan lessons, adapt materials, draft feedback, translate family messages and lighten administrative work. It also raises hard questions about student privacy, fair grading, academic integrity and what learners should be able to do on their own.

This course teaches where AI helps most in education and the guardrails that matter: protecting student data, keeping grading and decisions with educators, designing assessments for an AI era, teaching learners to use AI well and making sure AI serves every learner. You finish with a capstone: an AI playbook for one real teaching or administrative workflow, submitted and reviewed by a person. Completing the course earns the ETA Specialist credential: ETA Specialist: AI in Education.

What you'll learn

• Apply student privacy rules (FERPA, COPPA and your district's or institution's policies) to AI tools
• Use AI to plan lessons and units and create accessible, differentiated materials you've checked
• Draft feedback with AI while keeping grading and judgment with educators
• Design assignments and policies for academic integrity, and know why AI detectors shouldn't decide misconduct
• Teach learners to use AI responsibly
• Use AI for family communication and administration, and roll it out fairly

Who it's for

Teachers, faculty, instructional coaches and designers, school and college administrators and staff, and workforce and corporate trainers. It assumes you've completed Level 1: Foundations of the ETA Certified AI Empowered Professional (free). It is not legal advice; follow your district's, institution's or employer's policies and counsel.

How it works

Four modules with classroom and campus examples, templates and a Try it exercise in every lesson (using made-up student data only), a knowledge check after each module, a capstone and a final assessment. About 2 hours 30 minutes. Included with ETA Pro membership and above.

Your credential

Passing the final assessment, including your reviewed capstone, earns ETA Specialist: AI in Education: a certificate with its own verification page on joineta.org, issued as a verifiable digital badge (Open Badges 3.0) you can add to LinkedIn. ETA Specialist credentials stand on their own; they don't count toward a level of an ETA certification. The course adds 2.5 credit hours toward your hours-based credentials (AI Explorer, AI Empowered Professional and AI Empowered Leader).