The Retired MCT Store: How Microsoft Trainers Access Resources Today
AI for Trainers, Facilitators, Coaches & Educators — Included with FCI.
FDTEC's history with Microsoft Certified Trainers helped build this resource. Today, the opportunity is larger: professional instructor development that can support your expertise across technologies, employers, industries, clients, and professional roles.
The Retired MCT Store: How Microsoft Trainers Access Resources Today: Develop Portable Professional Instructor Capability
FDTEC's history with Microsoft Certified Trainers helped build this resource. Today, the opportunity is larger: professional instructor development that can support your expertise across technologies, employers, industries, clients, and professional roles.
Professional context
From the MCT Store to the Professional Instructor Resource Center
Practical application
The resources professional instructors need today should help them build capability that moves across technologies, roles, clients, and organizations—not simply support one designation.
Knowledge transfer
The original MCT Store reflected an earlier chapter of FDTEC's work supporting Microsoft Certified Trainers.
Career opportunity
FDTEC's professional instructor-development work has now expanded beyond resources centered on a single vendor designation.
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
FDTEC's history with Microsoft Certified Trainers helped build this resource. Today, the opportunity is larger: professional instructor development that can support your expertise across technologies, employers, industries, clients, and professional roles.
From the MCT Store to the Professional Instructor Resource Center
FDTEC's history with Microsoft Certified Trainers helped build this resource. Today, the opportunity is larger: professional instructor development that can support your expertise across technologies, employers, industries, clients, and professional roles.
The resources professional instructors need today should help them build capability that moves across technologies, roles, clients, and organizations—not simply support one designation.
The original MCT Store reflected an earlier chapter of FDTEC's work supporting Microsoft Certified Trainers.
FDTEC's professional instructor-development work has now expanded beyond resources centered on a single vendor designation.
If you arrived here looking for MCT-related professional development, you are still in the right place to understand FDTEC's history and explore the professional capabilities that made instructional skills valuable in the first place.
But the modern resource center is built around a larger question:
How can professionals develop the capability to make their expertise understandable, transferable, applicable, and valuable to other people—regardless of which technology ecosystem they work in?
From Supporting a Designation to Developing Professional Capability.
A resource built around Microsoft Certified Trainers and an important professional instructor ecosystem that FDTEC supported for decades.
Its audience came to FDTEC primarily through Microsoft, MCT, instructional skills, and technical trainer development.
Resources for instructors, technical professionals, consultants, facilitators, coaches, subject-matter experts, implementation professionals, leaders, and organizations.
The focus is professional capability that can move across ecosystems and professional roles.
FDTEC has been developing the people behind technology learning since 1999.
Microsoft and the MCT community became an important part of that history. Before Microsoft moved its instructional-skills function in-house, FDTEC had become the longest-serving provider of MCT instructional-skills certification.
That experience reinforced a lesson that reaches far beyond Microsoft:
Knowing the technology and successfully developing the people who must understand and use the technology are different professional capabilities.
Technologies change. Certifications change. Employers change. The need to communicate, facilitate, coach, solve problems, engage people, and transfer expertise remains.
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.