Looking for a Microsoft MCT Course? The Professional Opportunity Is Now Much Bigger.
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 you found FDTEC while searching for a Microsoft MCT course, you are probably interested in combining…
If you found FDTEC while searching for a Microsoft MCT course, you are probably interested in combining your technical expertise with the professional ability to teach, facilitate, engage, coach, and develop other people.
That capability remains valuable. But it no longer needs to begin and end with one technology vendor.
Historically, professionals searching for an MCT course were looking for the instructional capability associated with becoming a Microsoft Certified Trainer.
Microsoft controls its current MCT program, including the requirements and pathway for earning and maintaining the MCT credential. But the professional skills behind effective instruction are much broader than the credential itself.
Explain complex technology clearly enough for other people to understand it
Explain complex technology clearly enough for other people to understand it.
Engage learners, ask effective questions, manage interaction, and adapt to different learning needs.
Help people move from receiving information toward understanding, application, capability, and performance.
We Understand the Difference Between Knowing the Technology and Teaching the Technology.
FDTEC has been developing the people behind technology learning since 1999
FDTEC has been developing the people behind technology learning since 1999.
For more than two decades, our work within the Microsoft training ecosystem gave us direct experience developing instructional capability for technology professionals.
That foundation produced an important insight: technical knowledge creates subject-matter expertise, but professional instructor capability determines how effectively that expertise can be transferred to another person.
Professional instructor-development experience across changing technologies and learning environments.
Today's programs build forward from decades of instructor-development experience
Today's programs build forward from decades of instructor-development experience.
Instructional Skills Were Never Really About Slides. They Were About Developing People.
Technology changes quickly. The professional capabilities required to help another person learn are much more durable.
Translate specialized knowledge into explanations, examples, demonstrations, and conversations that learners can understand.
Use questions, discussion, active listening, facilitation, and feedback to create meaningful learner…
Use questions, discussion, active listening, facilitation, and feedback to create meaningful learner participation.
Help learners connect knowledge to actual problems, decisions, workflows, and professional performance.
The Microsoft MCT Pathway Has Changed. The Professional Need Behind Instructional Skills Has Not.
Technology professionals increasingly work across platforms, business functions, customers, teams, and industries. AI is accelerating this shift by making information easier to access while increasing the importance of communication, application, judgment, problem solving, and human capability.
You Already Invested in What You Know
You Already Invested in What You Know. Now Increase What You Can Do With It.
Professional instructor development does not replace Microsoft certification, AI expertise, cloud expertise, cybersecurity knowledge, data skills, or other technical and professional qualifications.
The technology, industry, business, or professional expertise you already possess.
The ability to communicate, facilitate, coach, question, adapt, solve problems, and transfer expertise.
Greater capability to develop learners, customers, colleagues, teams, and organizations
Greater capability to develop learners, customers, colleagues, teams, and organizations.
Your Professional Instructor Capability Should Belong to You—Not to a Vendor.
Vendor credentials validate important technology expertise. Professional instructor capability serves a broader purpose: helping you transfer expertise effectively wherever that expertise needs to go.
Apply professional instructor capability across Microsoft, AI, cloud, cybersecurity, data, healthcare technology, and other technical environments.
Use professional instructor capability in training, consulting, implementation, enablement, facilitation,…
Use professional instructor capability in training, consulting, implementation, enablement, facilitation, coaching, and workforce development.
Carry those capabilities across employers, customers, teams, industries, and professional learning environments.
Fifteen Competencies Designed to Move With the Professional.
Completing a course does not automatically create capability. Delivering every slide does not automatically create capability. Even understanding something during training does not guarantee that the learner can apply it afterward.
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.