AIED: Enhancing Educator Practice with AI
NEA (National Education Association)
Last updated September 15, 2026
AIED: Enhancing Educator Practice with AI is a free, self-paced independent-study course from the National Education Association on using AI across classroom instruction and administrative tasks, covering AI literacy, ethical considerations and practical integration strategies. It runs about 5 hours through a single online module, and finishes with NEA's Teacher Quality Certificate and 5 continuing-education hours.
What you'll learn
- Evaluating AI tools for instructional and administrative tasks
- Identifying ethical considerations: bias, transparency, data privacy, equitable access
- Developing strategies for integrating AI into teaching and professional workflows
- Analyzing feedback and reflection data to judge AI's actual impact on practice
Frequently asked questions about AIED: Enhancing Educator Practice with AI
Who is AIED: Enhancing Educator Practice with AI for?
K-12 and higher-education educators who want to apply AI across both their teaching and administrative work.
Is AIED: Enhancing Educator Practice with AI free?
Yes — AIED: Enhancing Educator Practice with AI is free to take. Requires creating a free NEA Professional Excellence Portal account.
Does AIED: Enhancing Educator Practice with AI offer a certificate?
Yes. Free "Teacher Quality Certificate" and 5.0 continuing-education/PDU hours on completion.
Why we suggest this course
It covers both halves of a teacher's AI use — instruction and administrative workload — in one course, and closes with reflection and feedback analysis rather than stopping at tool tutorials, so the course asks whether AI actually helped rather than just having you try it.