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A Inteligencia Artificial vai transformar a Escola? — Portugal's National Teacher MOOC and Certificate on AI in Education

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Portugal's education ministry (DGE) runs a free national MOOC via the NAU platform training teachers and school leaders on AI in education; 1,900 enrolled in the first 2020 edition, 5,363 cumulatively across four editions through 2024, earning a completion certificate.

5,363
Cumulative MOOC enrolments across four editions (2020-2024)
1,900
Registrations in the first 2020 edition (2020)
75 %
Minimum score required for completion certificate
A Inteligencia Artificial vai transformar a Escola? — Portugal's National Teacher MOOC and Certificate on AI in Education

Details

Maturity
Scaling
Promoter
Direcção-Geral da Educação (DGE) via the NAU national MOOC platform
Period
2020-present (4 editions through 2024)
Keywords
teacher professional development, MOOC, digital and AI literacy

Context

The Direcção-Geral da Educação (DGE), Portugal's Ministry of Education directorate, created the free Portuguese-language MOOC "A Inteligência Artificial vai transformar a Escola?" on the national NAU platform, open to teachers of every recruitment group, school leaders and other education professionals.

Activities

Learners who score at least 75% receive a digital completion certificate; the course has run four editions since a first cohort in late 2020, and the European Commission's Better Internet for Kids portal has cited it as a model for national AI-in-education teacher training.

Results

The first 2020 edition drew about 1,900 registrations, and cumulative enrolment reached 5,363 across four editions by late 2024; no published data separates completions from registrations, and typical MOOC drop-off means the enrolment figures should not be read as completion figures.

Conclusions

The certificate is explicitly not accredited by Portugal's CCPFC, the body governing mandatory continuing teacher-education credit, so completion carries no formal professional-development value -- a real limit on what the programme's reach numbers actually certify.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k) — Delivered as a free online MOOC on the existing national NAU platform; no infrastructure or per-learner cost is reported beyond course development.
Time to results
Medium (1–3 years) — Running since a first edition in late 2020, with four editions delivered through 2024, indicating a sustained multi-year commitment rather than a single one-off course.
Staffing & skills
Direcção-Geral da Educação (DGE) course team, NAU national MOOC platform (FCCN)

Conditions for success

  • A free, open national MOOC platform (NAU) able to host and certify the course at no cost to teachers
  • Ministry backing to reach teachers of every recruitment group and school leaders nationwide

Common failure modes

  • No completion/registration split published, so real course completion (versus registration) cannot be verified
  • Certificate lacks CCPFC accreditation, limiting its value for formal continuing-education credit

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