How Do You Join the Microsoft MCT Program? Understand the Microsoft Path—Then Build Capability That Goes Further.
Your Professional Opportunity Is Bigger Now.
Build a Professional Capability That Goes Far Beyond One Platform.
The Next Evolution of Professional Instructor Development™
Cross-Platform. Cross-Industry. Professional Instructor Certification Is Here.
Build professional teaching, facilitation, coaching, and knowledge-transfer capabilities that extend your subject expertise.
If your goal is specifically to become a Microsoft Certified Trainer, Microsoft now controls the MCT…
If your goal is specifically to become a Microsoft Certified Trainer, Microsoft now controls the MCT pathway directly—including its current eligibility, enrollment, onboarding, and program requirements.
But becoming part of a vendor program and becoming a highly capable professional instructor are not the same objective.
Microsoft Certified Trainer™ is Microsoft's trainer credential. Microsoft determines the current requirements for entering, completing, and maintaining participation in the MCT program.
Because vendor requirements can change, professionals pursuing MCT should verify the current process directly with Microsoft rather than relying on older articles, qualification lists, or historical MCT instructions.
Confirm Microsoft's current eligibility, credential, onboarding, enrollment, and renewal requirements…
Confirm Microsoft's current eligibility, credential, onboarding, enrollment, and renewal requirements directly with Microsoft.
Follow the current Microsoft process if the MCT credential is specifically important to your Microsoft professional objectives.
Decide whether you also want professional instructor capability designed to remain valuable beyond one vendor ecosystem.
Before Microsoft Moved MCT Instructional-Skills Development In-House, FDTEC Was the Longest-Serving Provider.
FDTEC did not enter professional instructor development because the market suddenly became interesting
FDTEC did not enter professional instructor development because the market suddenly became interesting.
We have been developing the people behind technology learning since 1999.
For more than 25 years, FDTEC worked inside the Microsoft training ecosystem developing instructional capability for professionals pursuing the Microsoft Certified Trainer pathway.
FDTEC became the longest-serving provider of MCT instructional-skills development before Microsoft moved that function in-house.
Decades of direct experience developing professional instructional capability
Decades of direct experience developing professional instructional capability.
FDTEC's Microsoft history created the foundation from which today's broader professional instructor-development model evolved.
We Understand the Difference Between Knowing the Technology and Teaching the Technology.
Working with technology professionals for more than two decades reinforced one lesson again and again: subject-matter expertise and professional instructor capability are different things.
Technical certification, education, and professional experience establish valuable subject-matter expertise
Technical certification, education, and professional experience establish valuable subject-matter expertise.
Communication, facilitation, questioning, listening, coaching, adaptability, and problem solving determine how effectively expertise moves to another person.
The real objective is helping people understand, retain, apply, and use what they learn.
The Microsoft MCT Pathway Has Changed. The Professional Need Behind Instructional Skills Has Not.
Professionals increasingly move across technologies, functions, employers, customers, projects, industries,…
Professionals increasingly move across technologies, functions, employers, customers, projects, industries, and learning environments.
Their professional instructor capability should be able to move with them.
Microsoft Was an Important Part of the Foundation. It Does Not Have to Be the Boundary.
FDTEC's evolution is not a rejection of the Microsoft foundation that helped establish our instructor-development experience.
It is what more than 25 years of that experience taught us should come next
It is what more than 25 years of that experience taught us should come next.
Develop instructional capability for professionals working within the Microsoft training ecosystem.
The most durable capabilities—communication, facilitation, coaching, problem solving, adaptability, and knowledge transfer—extend beyond Microsoft.
Develop professional instructor capability designed to move across platforms, functions, organizations, industries, and learning environments.
Keep Your Microsoft Expertise
Keep Your Microsoft Expertise. Add Capability That Can Travel With You.
Professional instructor development does not replace Microsoft certification or any other technical, academic, industry, or professional credential.
It complements that expertise and increases what you are capable of doing with it.
What you know—the technologies, disciplines, industries, and professional subjects in which you have developed expertise.
Candidates Qualify Through One Accepted Pathway
One accepted pathway means you need only one of these three.
1. Relevant Certification
A recognized technical, industry, professional, occupational, or other relevant certification.
2. 1+ Year Relevant Professional Experience
At least one year of relevant professional experience in the candidate’s field of expertise.
3. Employer Verification
Employer verification confirming relevant professional expertise.
Certification OR Experience OR Employer Verification
Questions About Professional Instructor Certification
Who can qualify for FDTEC Certified Instructor™?
Candidates qualify through one accepted pathway: a recognized relevant certification, one or more years of relevant professional experience, or employer verification of relevant expertise.
Is AI training included?
Yes. AI for Trainers, Facilitators, Coaches & Educators is included.
What is the difference between Standard FCI and Capstone Verified?
Standard FCI includes the self-paced certification program and assessment. Capstone Verified adds applied performance validation.
How long is FCI valid?
The FCI credential is valid for 36 months, with a streamlined renewal process.
Professional Instructor Development for a Larger Market
Cross-Platform. Cross-Industry. Professional Instructor Certification Is Here.