NEW PROGRAMME: This qualification enables you  to critically explore the opportunities and risks presented by artificial intelligence (AI) in teaching, learning and assessment.

It encourages ethical awareness, confident professional judgement and innovative practice. You will examine AI’s potential to enhance learner engagement, streamline administrative tasks, and personalise instruction, while also considering limitations such as bias, data privacy and over-reliance.

The Award supports evidence-informed, reflective planning for responsible AI adoption.

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This special qualification is a partnership between NILE and SAIGE, Skills for Artificial Intelligence in Global Education.

The Award in Artificial Intelligence for Teaching Professionals sits at Level 3 on the Regulated Qualifications Framework from the UK’s Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual).

Is this programme for you?

 
Location: Online
 
Experience:
Participants who hold a recognised teaching qualification
 
Language Level: B2 or higher
 
Course dates:
27 April - 22 May
25 May - 19 June
22 June - 17 July
 
Certification:
SAIGE Level 3 Award qualification
 
Course Length:
Total Qualification Time: 30 hours
Guided Learning Hours: 9 Hours
 
Course fees:
Course fee: £150
VAT (20%): £30
Assessment fee: £185
Total fees: £365
 
Overseas institutions: VAT does not apply
 
Minimum age: 19
 
Specialist ELT eLibrary
 
Accredited by SAIGE

Qualification content

 
Current use of AI in education and training
 
Current and future trends of AI in education and their possible impact
 
Benefits and limitations of utilising AI in education and training
 
Comparative use of generative AI tools in education and training
 
Ethical considerations of using AI in education and training
 
Safeguarding implications inherent in AI use in professional practice
 
Create a practical and ethical plan for AI integration in your teaching context

About the Award

  • The Award in Artificial Intelligence for Teaching Professionals is developed by SAIGE (Skills for Artificial Intelligence in Global Education) in partnership with NILE.
  • SAIGE is the first AI-education-focused awarding body to be approved by Ofqual (Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation, the UK qualifications regulator). 
  • The qualification is awarded through the assessment of a portfolio of reflective tasks, based your own teaching context. 
  • The total qualification time is 30 hours, including nine hours guided learning.

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    Routes to the Award

  • Discounts on the Course Fee are available for current NILE Online students and recent alumni.
  • The guided learning hours can also be offered as a standalone course through NILE Online and other recognized partners*
  • Institutions can offer the guided learning hours to a group of their teachers as a face-to-face or online course delivered by a qualified NILE tutor*

    • *Additional fees apply

    Please contact info@nile-elt.com for more details on any of these options.

     

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    Further Information

    NILE Online courses are highly interactive and learning takes place through varied and engaging multimedia content and the collaboration between participants from different contexts. All participants work on the same unit in the same week but there is a high level of flexibility within that time period to help you fit studying around your life and work. The interaction, via forums and other collaborative tools built into the platform, helps and encourages you to share ideas, ask questions, explore concepts and build up a community.

    Participants will need regular access to a computer (not just a mobile device), a headset with microphone, and a stable Internet connection. As the course includes portfolio-based assessment and practical engagement with online AI tools such as ChatGPT or Gemini, participants should be comfortable creating and uploading documents, capturing screenshots, and working with web-based platforms. Participants are responsible for ensuring that local network restrictions or firewalls do not limit access to generative AI tools.

    Participants have access to NILE's extensive ELT e-library and an innovative social and cultural programme. All NILE Online courses include an element of professional language development, i.e. language related to course content and/or the classroom.

    About SAIGE

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    SAIGE is an institution specialising in artificial intelligence, data and their related fields. They provide qualifications for educational institutions, employers, practitioners and learners.

    SAIGE believe that artificial intelligence, in all its diverse forms, is critical in shaping developments in the 21st century and beyond. From industry to governments to the third sector, AI provides opportunities for individuals, organisations and society to flourish.

    SAIGE understand that for this to happen there needs to be wider dissemination of knowledge, understanding and the development of skills to support the ethical development and responsible roll out of AI.

    They are committed, therefore, to make access to this information, knowledge and skills readily available to a wider range of society than is currently the case. The provision of contemporary qualifications and pathways to employment in the fields of AI, data sciences and related occupations will be a primary part of the services SAIGE offer. 

    www.saige.global


    Available dates:

    Course dates Location Course length
    27 April - 22 May 2026 Online 30 hours including 9 guided learning hours
    25 May - 19 June 2026 Online 30 hours including 9 guided learning hours
    22 June - 17 July 2026 Online 30 hours including 9 guided learning hours

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