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AI for Trainers, Facilitators, Coaches & Educators — Included with FCI.
If you are searching for Microsoft Certified Trainer certification, you are already thinking beyond technical expertise. You are thinking about becoming the professional who can explain technology, teach it, facilitate understanding, develop others, and transfer expertise.
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If you are searching for Microsoft Certified Trainer certification, you are already thinking beyond technical expertise. You are thinking about becoming the professional who can explain technology, teach it, facilitate understanding, develop others, and transfer expertise.
Professional context
The Microsoft MCT pathway has changed. The professional need behind instructor development has not. Today's cross-platform, cross-functional workplace makes those capabilities even more valuable.
Practical application
Microsoft Certified Trainer remains a Microsoft-specific professional trainer designation for professionals working within the Microsoft learning ecosystem.
Knowledge transfer
Beginning in 1999, FDTEC developed professional instructors and ultimately became the longest-serving provider of MCT instructional-skills certification before Microsoft moved that function in-house.
Career opportunity
But today's professional opportunity extends well beyond one technology ecosystem.
FCI develops 15 transferable professional instructor competencies: communication, active listening, facilitation, emotional intelligence, presentation, questioning, classroom management, conflict resolution, executive presence, coaching, feedback, adaptability, critical thinking, problem solving, and knowledge transfer.
Transfer What You Know. Develop What Others Can Do.
Technical or occupational expertise provides the subject foundation. Professional instructor capability strengthens communication, facilitation, coaching, and the application of knowledge in real work.
Any One of These Three Pathways Qualifies
Recognized Certification
Relevant technical, industry, professional, or occupational certification.
Professional Experience
At least one year of relevant professional experience.
Employer Verification
An employer verification letter confirming relevant expertise.
Only one accepted pathway is required. No college degree is required.
Choose Your Professional Instructor Certification Pathway
FDTEC Certified Instructor™
Develop professional instructor competencies around the expertise you already possess. Includes the AI module, digital credential, and lifetime course access.
Explore Standard FCIFCI Capstone Verified
Extend the FCI pathway with applied instructional performance verification.
Explore Capstone VerifiedApplying Instructor Capability in This Professional Context
If you are searching for Microsoft Certified Trainer certification, you are already thinking beyond technical expertise. You are thinking about becoming the professional who can explain technology, teach it, facilitate understanding, develop others, and transfer expertise.
If you are searching for Microsoft Certified Trainer certification, you are already thinking beyond technical expertise. You are thinking about becoming the professional who can explain technology, teach it, facilitate understanding, develop others, and transfer expertise.
The Microsoft MCT pathway has changed. The professional need behind instructor development has not. Today's cross-platform, cross-functional workplace makes those capabilities even more valuable.
Microsoft Certified Trainer remains a Microsoft-specific professional trainer designation for professionals working within the Microsoft learning ecosystem.
Beginning in 1999, FDTEC developed professional instructors and ultimately became the longest-serving provider of MCT instructional-skills certification before Microsoft moved that function in-house.
But today's professional opportunity extends well beyond one technology ecosystem.
FDTEC has taken more than 25 years of professional instructor-development experience and built the next evolution around capability that can move with the professional.
Brand recognition is one thing. Twenty-five-plus years of professional instructor-development experience is another.
We Have Been Developing the People Behind Technology Learning Since 1999.
FDTEC's professional instructor-development experience was built through decades of working with technical professionals who already possessed valuable subject-matter expertise.
Could they communicate that expertise? Could they facilitate learning? Could they coach others? Could they solve instructional problems? Could they transfer what they knew so another person could actually use it?
Those questions were important during FDTEC's years in the Microsoft/MCT ecosystem.
The workplace is increasingly cross-functional. Technology is increasingly interconnected. Professionals move across products, platforms, employers, industries, clients, and responsibilities.
Professional instructor development should be designed for that reality.
Your Professional Instructor Capability Should Belong to You—Not to a Vendor.
Or AWS. Cisco. Cybersecurity. AI. Cloud. Healthcare. Data. Software. Networking. Consulting. Government. Education.
FCI adds a professional capability layer designed to travel with that expertise wherever your career goes next.
Develop professional instructor capabilities that remain useful across technologies, platforms, vendors, employers, industries, and learning environments.
Apply those capabilities across training, consulting, leadership, implementation, customer enablement, technical sales, government, healthcare, operations, and organizational learning.
Qualification and Certification Assessment
Candidates qualify through one accepted pathway: a relevant technical, industry, professional, or occupational certification; at least one year of relevant professional experience; or employer verification of relevant expertise. No degree required.
The FCI assessment includes 50 questions, a two-hour time limit, a 75% passing score, and multiple attempts.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the AI module included with FCI?
Yes. AI for Trainers, Facilitators, Coaches & Educators is included with FCI.
How do I qualify for FCI?
Candidates qualify through one accepted pathway: a relevant technical, industry, professional, or occupational certification; at least one year of relevant professional experience; or employer verification of relevant expertise. No degree is required.
What is the FCI certification assessment?
The assessment has 50 questions, a two-hour time limit, a 75% passing score, and multiple attempts.
What are the self-paced program prices?
FDTEC Certified Instructor™ is $1,497. FCI Capstone Verified is $2,497.
How long is the FCI credential valid?
The FCI credential is valid for 36 months.
Expand Where Your Expertise Can Take You.
Cross-Platform. Cross-Industry. Professional Instructor Certification Is Here.