Expanding OpenAI Academy with new learning paths

PUBLISHER ARTICLE PREVIEW

From the original article

Role-based learning helps employees, developers, leaders, educators, and students build practical AI skills and demonstrate what they’ve learned.

Using AI safely and effectively takes practice. People need to learn how to apply it to the work in front of them, whether they’re improving a daily workflow, building a product, leading a team, or teaching a class.

At OpenAI, we treat learning as part of deployment. Today, we’re expanding OpenAI Academy with new courses for developers, leaders, educators, and college students. These join Apply AI at Work, which helps people build foundational skills, create repeatable workflows, and direct work with agents.

Together, the pathways help organizations build shared habits for working with AI and develop the skills different roles require. Course assessments give learners a way to demonstrate what they’ve learned. Learners earn an OpenAI Academy course badge by passing the course assessment.

OpenAI Academy ⁠courses are built around a simple idea: you should use AI to learn AI. Learners practice on real tasks, giving instructions, adding context, and reviewing results as they go.

Organizations can combine Apply AI at Work with focused learning for developers, leaders, educators, and students, choosing the courses that support their teams’ work.

The Apply AI at Work⁠ pathway helps people use AI more effectively in their everyday work. Learners start with the