Kazakhstan's Orleu teacher-training agency, with UNESCO IITE and UNESCO-ICHEI, ran a free national generative-AI micro-certification for teachers: by Nov 2025, 324,000 had registered and 252,000 completed and were certified.
324,000
Teachers registered (as of 20 Nov 2025)
252,000
Teachers completed & certified (as of 20 Nov 2025)
~78%
Completion rate
Details
Maturity
Scaling
Promoter
National Centre for Professional Development "Orleu" (Kazakhstan Ministry of Education), with UNESCO IITE and UNESCO-ICHEI
Period
2024–2025, ongoing (national rollout from Aug 2025)
Keywords
teacher professional development, generative AI, prompt engineering, in-service training
Context
Kazakhstan's Orleu teacher-training agency, with UNESCO IITE and UNESCO-ICHEI, developed a bilingual (Kazakh/Russian) generative-AI micro-certification course for teachers covering prompt engineering, classroom applications and academic-integrity/privacy protection, rolled out free and nationwide from the end of August 2025.
Results
By 20 November 2025, 324,000 teachers had registered and 252,000 (about 78%) had completed the course and received Ministry-accredited certification, with highest uptake in Shymkent, Turkistan and Zhambyl regions; no independent study yet measures whether the training changed classroom practice or student outcomes.
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