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IAprende con Sentido Humano y Territorial — Colombia's National Tiered AI Training for Public-School Teachers

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Colombia's ICT Ministry ran a second national AI-training call for public-school teachers via Computadores para Educar, moving over 3,000 educators through basic-to-advanced AI competency levels in 2025, with in-person and asynchronous virtual tracks.

3000+ teachers
Teachers trained in 2025 edition (2025)
IAprende con Sentido Humano y Territorial — Colombia's National Tiered AI Training for Public-School Teachers

Details

Maturity
Scaling
Promoter
MinTIC — Computadores para Educar & Tecnologías para Aprender, Ministerio de Educación Nacional
Period
2025-2026
Keywords
digital government, teacher professional development, public education

Context

Colombia's Ministry of Information and Communications Technology (MinTIC), through its Computadores para Educar and Tecnologías para Aprender programmes, ran 'IAprende con Sentido Humano y Territorial' for the second consecutive year, a national call training public-school teachers and school leaders in artificial intelligence.

Objectives

The programme aims to build AI competency among public-school teachers across Colombia's regions, structuring training into progressive levels and reaching both in-person public-school participants and private-sector teachers through a virtual track.

Activities

In the 2025 edition, more than 3,000 teachers took part in AI training, and hundreds of educational institutions held their first 'Día de la Inteligencia Artificial' sessions in partnership with MIT's Day of AI programme. The 2026 edition, opened in April 2026, structures training into four levels — basic, intermediate, advanced and a 'superior' AI-educator track — delivered through intensive in-person sessions for new participants and an asynchronous virtual track that also admits private-sector teachers.

Results

More than 3,000 teachers participated in the 2025 edition, and hundreds of institutions ran their first AI Day sessions. The reported figures cover participation and reach, not measured learning or classroom-practice outcomes: pass rates, assessment criteria, and whether a formal certificate is awarded at each level are not specified in public sources.

Conclusions

The programme's main strength is its second-year continuity and its explicit two-track design for reaching both public in-person and private virtual-track teachers, though the rigor of its tiered 'credential' remains unverified.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Medium (€50k–€500k) — Delivered through existing MinTIC/Computadores para Educar national programme infrastructure; no separate budget figure was published for the AI training call.
Time to results
Medium (1–3 years) — Second consecutive annual national edition; the 2025 edition ran through the year, and the 2026 edition opened in April 2026 with an expanded four-level structure.
Staffing & skills
MinTIC (Ministry of Information and Communications Technology), Computadores para Educar programme, Tecnologías para Aprender programme, Ministerio de Educación Nacional

Conditions for success

  • Delivery through Computadores para Educar's existing large-scale national infrastructure
  • A tiered four-level curriculum (basic to 'superior' AI-educator) giving a progression path
  • Parallel in-person and asynchronous virtual tracks to reach both public and private-sector teachers

Common failure modes

  • No public source specifies pass rates, assessment design, or whether a formal certificate/badge is awarded at each level, so the credential's rigor is unverifiable
  • No measured classroom-practice or pupil-learning outcomes are reported

Where it fits

Governance type
national government
Scale
national (multi-region, second consecutive annual edition)
Income level
upper-middle-income

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