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Educators & Instructors
Strengthen your teaching with adult learning science, facilitation techniques, and practical instructional design.
Continuing Education & Professional Development
Turn your expertise into training that delivers.
Build the skills to design clear learning experiences, lead engaging sessions, and assess what participants can actually do.
Professional Certificate
A 120-hour online program for educators, workplace trainers, learning and development professionals, consultants, and subject-matter experts. Develop practical skills in adult learning, instructional design, facilitation, assessment, accessibility, and responsible AI use through 10 Academic Microcredentials.
120 learning hours
10 Academic Microcredentials
100% online
Rolling enrollmentProgram delivered in Spanish
Certified by JF Learn Institute and CEL – Center of Education and Leadership.
Academic endorsement from Florida Global University, FGU.
Academic endorsement from Florida Global University, FGU.
Build your next step as a trainer
Create training people can use on the job.
Bring learning goals, practice, resources, and assessment together in a coherent training experience.
Program Length120 learning hours
Learning Pathway10 Academic Microcredentials · 12 hours each
Format100% online
AssessmentApplied, throughout the program
Who It's For
For professionals who teach, train, and share expertise
Whether you lead employee training, teach adults, or help clients build skills, this program helps you turn subject expertise into structured learning experiences.
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Workplace Trainers & L&D Teams
Design purposeful training and evaluate learning with clearer evidence of progress and performance.
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Consultants & Coaches
Turn your expertise into repeatable workshops and learning programs with clear outcomes and purposeful practice.
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Subject-Matter Experts
Learn to teach technical knowledge effectively, with a structure that goes beyond knowing your subject well.
What You'll Learn
Practical skills for designing and delivering professional learning
Connect adult learning science with evidence-informed teaching, instructional design, assessment, accessibility, and responsible use of digital tools and AI.
Design learning experiences around participants' prior knowledge, workplace context, and actual needs.
Use learning science to distinguish credible evidence from unsupported claims and training trends.
Support motivation, engagement, metacognition, and self-regulated learning.
Facilitate in-person and online groups through purposeful questions, discussion, and structured participation.
Choose evidence-based methods that combine explanation, active learning, practice, and feedback.
Align learning outcomes, activities, and assessment with the skills participants need to demonstrate.
Create learning resources with digital tools and generative AI, with verification and human review.
Develop assessments, rubrics, and feedback that make learning progress easier to interpret.
Design accessible learning experiences that account for differences among participants.
Demonstrate your skills through facilitation practice and a Professional Trainer Capstone.
Curriculum
10 Academic Microcredentials · 120 Learning Hours
Build from adult learning foundations to hands-on facilitation and a professional capstone. Each Academic Microcredential develops a specific competency within the full certificate program.
10 Academic Microcredentials
12 h per Academic Microcredential
120 h totalFoundation → Applied → Advanced → Capstone
- Adult and professional learning: experience, context, relevance, and prior knowledge.
- Cognitive foundations: attention, working memory, long-term memory, and retrieval.
- Andragogy, experiential learning, and self-directed learning: contributions, applications, and limitations.
- Evidence literacy: distinguishing research evidence from opinion, tradition, and educational marketing.
- Motivation, basic psychological needs, and self-determination theory.
- Self-efficacy, expectations, value, relevance, and learning goals.
- Metacognition and self-regulated learning: planning, monitoring, adjusting, and reflecting.
- Designing conditions that support participation, persistence, and engagement.
- The trainer's role: explaining, facilitating, supporting, and structuring participation.
- Clear instructional communication, active listening, and effective questioning.
- Facilitating discussion, managing group dynamics, and navigating challenging situations.
- Facilitator presence in in-person, online, and hybrid settings.
- Explicit instruction, modeling, guided practice, independent practice, and scaffolding.
- Retrieval practice, spacing, interleaving, elaboration, and generation.
- Active learning through cases, problems, simulations, and structured collaboration.
- Cognitive load, transfer, and critical evaluation of neuromyths and popular training methods.
- Training needs analysis and learner profiles.
- Competency-based design and observable learning outcomes.
- Alignment of outcomes, activities, assessment, and learning evidence.
- Sequencing, delivery format, workload, and a learning experience blueprint.
- Designing learning resources, multimedia, guides, presentations, and performance support tools.
- Digital tools, learning management systems, and resources for live and self-paced learning.
- Generative AI for content, activities, cases, questions, and adapting materials.
- Information verification, privacy, bias, intellectual property, and human oversight.
- Diagnostic, formative, and summative assessment aligned with learning outcomes.
- Knowledge checks, performance assessment, projects, and rubric development.
- Actionable feedback, self-assessment, and peer assessment.
- Learning evidence, measurement basics, interpreting results, and responsible AI use.
- Learner variability, inclusion, and access to learning.
- Universal Design for Learning and accessibility from the outset.
- Digital accessibility, plain language, and accessible audiovisual resources.
- Linguistic, cultural, and neurocognitive diversity; bias and human review of AI-generated materials.
- Preparing, opening, explaining, modeling, and leading a training session.
- Checking understanding, facilitating activities, and adjusting during delivery.
- Managing time, group interaction, and the in-person or online experience.
- Microteaching, performance observation, feedback, and reflective practice.
- Defining a real training need, learner profile, and target competency.
- Designing outcomes, a learning sequence, methods, activities, resources, and responsible AI use.
- Planning accessibility, assessment, rubrics, feedback, and training delivery.
- Professional Trainer Portfolio: facilitation evidence, reflection, and a continuous improvement plan.
How You'll Learn
Flexible learning. Practical evidence. Professional application.
Work through concepts, evaluate evidence, and create training materials you can connect to your own professional setting.
Learn on Your Schedule
Study through the online learning portal and revisit lessons and resources when you need them.
Evidence Labs & Cases
Examine training claims, decisions, and practices using research evidence, context, and critical thinking.
Digital Tools & AI
Use digital tools and AI with information verification, privacy safeguards, and professional judgment.
Build and Practice
Create professional work products, practice facilitation, and complete a final capstone.
How You're Assessed
Show what you understand—and what you can apply.
Minimum passing score: 70%. Assessment combines conceptual understanding, practical application, and evidence of professional skills.
Knowledge Checks
- Checks for understanding in each Academic Microcredential.
- Retrieval and application of core concepts.
Applied Assignments
- Cases, analysis, design tasks, and problem solving.
- Work products connected to real professional settings.
Facilitation Practice
- Microteaching and observable performance evidence.
- Feedback, self-assessment, and reflection on practice.
Professional Capstone
- An integrated design for a training experience.
- A Professional Trainer Portfolio and continuous improvement plan.
Your Professional Credential
Make your training skills visible.
Complete the 10 Academic Microcredentials, required assignments, performance evidence, and academic requirements to earn the certificate for the full program.
- 120 learning hours documented on the certificate.
- A QR code for credential verification.
- Continuing education for professional development.
- A credential you can add to your LinkedIn profile.
Certificate Sample
Illustrative sample. Your final certificate is issued with your details, signatures, and individual QR verification code.
A lasting record of your learning
Verify and share your professional credential
No Expiration Date
The certificate remains a record of the training you completed and has no expiration date.
Permanent Record
Your credential is recorded in the corresponding Florida Global University (FGU) records.
QR Verification
Each certificate includes a QR code for verifying the credential and its associated information.
Add It to LinkedIn
Add the certificate to your professional profile as part of your continuing development.
Certified by JF Learn Institute and CEL – Center of Education and Leadership.
Academically endorsed by Florida Global University, FGU.
A non-degree continuing education program. It does not award a college degree.
Tuition
Choose the payment option that works for you.
Three payment options, with secure checkout through Stripe. All prices are in U.S. dollars.
6-Payment Plan
$79 / month
6 monthly payments.
Total: $474 USD
Enroll · $79/month
3-Payment Plan
$143 / month
3 monthly payments.
Total: $429 USD
Enroll · $143/month
Pay in Full
$390
One payment, no installment surcharge.
Save $39–$84 compared with the installment plans.
Enroll · $390
Frequently Asked Questions
Before You Enroll
Enrollment is open year-round. Once payment is confirmed and your access is activated, you can begin in the online learning portal.
Yes. Choose one payment of $390, three monthly payments of $143, or six monthly payments of $79. Payments are processed through Stripe.
The program uses Moodle. Access learning materials, assignments, assessments, resources, and your progress in the online learning portal.
JF Learn Institute and CEL – Center of Education and Leadership certify the program. Florida Global University (FGU) provides the academic endorsement.
No. This is a non-degree continuing education program for professional development. The certificate documents completed training; it does not award a college degree.
The 10 Academic Microcredentials form one 120-hour certificate pathway. Each focuses on a specific competency, from adult learning and instructional design to AI, assessment, accessibility, facilitation practice, and the capstone.
Use generative AI to support content, activities, learning resources, and assessment. The focus is on verification, privacy, bias review, transparency, and human oversight. The trainer remains responsible for the final work.
The program is currently delivered in Spanish. This English page provides program information; it does not indicate that instruction is available in English.
Build training with purpose—and evidence.
120 learning hours · 10 Academic Microcredentials · Online learning · Professional certificate with university academic endorsement.