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AI courses and certifications

Member courses and certifications from the Enterprise Technology Association (ETA), plus free courses from trusted providers. Start the ETA certification free with Level 1: Foundations.

Certification program

ETA Certified AI Empowered Professional

A six-course curriculum in AI Fluency and Using AI Agents at Work, from foundations to advanced, with a knowledge check in every module and a final assessment in every course.

Level 1: Foundations is free. Levels 2 and 3 are included with ETA Pro membership and above, or $149 per level ($249 for both). Finish all three levels to earn the full certification.

  1. Level 1Free

    Foundations

    Start here: the essentials of AI and agents at work.

  2. Level 2$149

    Practitioner

    Reliable, repeatable results across your job.

  3. Level 3$149

    Advanced

    Lead, scale and govern AI and agent work for your team.

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  • DeepLearning.AI

    AI for Everyone

    Andrew Ng's non-technical course on what AI can and cannot do, how to spot opportunities in your organization and how to lead AI projects. Free to audit.

    Free
    Beginner · Video course · Free to audit
  • Google

    Introduction to Generative AI

    A 45 minute starting point from Google that explains what generative AI is, how it works and where it fits at work. It opens a free five-course path; the videos are free and hands-on labs are paid.

    Free
    Beginner · Video course · 45 min first course
  • Anthropic

    AI Fluency: Framework and Foundations

    A practical course on working with AI well: delegating tasks, describing what you need, judging the output and using AI responsibly. Built with Ringling College and University College Cork faculty, with tracks for educators, students and nonprofits.

    Free
    Beginner · Video course · 3-4 hrs
  • OpenAI

    OpenAI Academy

    Self-paced videos and live workshops on using ChatGPT at work, prompting, and AI for K-12 educators. No certificate.

    Free
    Beginner · Video course · Self-paced
  • Microsoft

    Generative AI for Beginners

    Twenty-one short lessons from Microsoft Cloud Advocates, each with a video, that take you from prompt basics to building simple generative AI apps.

    Free
    Beginner · Video course · 21 lessons
  • Code.org

    How AI Works

    Short, friendly videos from Code.org that explain how AI learns from data. Great for families, K-12 classrooms and anyone starting from zero.

    Free
    Beginner · Video series · Short videos
  • IBM

    IBM Technology explainers

    Five to fifteen minute whiteboard explainers from IBM on AI agents, retrieval, governance and other terms you hear at work.

    Free
    Beginner · Video series · 5-15 min videos
  • Enterprise Technology Association (ETA)

    AI Fluency: Foundations

    ETA Certified AI Empowered Professional · Level 1: Foundations

    A plain-language introduction to generative AI at work. Learn how AI tools produce answers, where they help and where they fail, and complete your first safe, effective workflow with ETA's ADAPT framework.

    Free
    Beginner · Self-paced online · 83 minEarns 1 credit hour
  • Enterprise Technology Association (ETA)

    AI Agents at Work: Foundations

    ETA Certified AI Empowered Professional · Level 1: Foundations

    Learn what AI agents are, how much to let them do with the ETA Agent Autonomy Ladder, and how to give an agent its first task with a clear brief, the right approvals and a careful review.

    Free
    Beginner · Self-paced online · 83 minEarns 1 credit hour

Credentials and certification

Hours-based credentials: AI Explorer, AI Empowered Professional and AI Empowered Leader

Earned with verified credit hours: courses you complete here or on an AI Ready site, plus ETA workshops, AI Week sessions, masterclasses and other training you log on My learning. Each credential needs more hours than the last.

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Six-course certification: ETA Certified AI Empowered Professional

A curriculum certification, separate from the hours-based credentials: six courses across three levels, each with knowledge checks and a final assessment. Each level is recorded as you finish it, and finishing all three earns the certification.

About the certification