Build the AI skills your organization needs
Practical courses for your organization, from using AI in everyday work to building solutions, and leading adoption.
About the courses
OpenAI Academy courses are shaped by teams across OpenAI, with practical examples and activities learners can apply to their own work. Every course includes an assessment, with official badges issued through Accredible. Courses are updated as our products and guidance evolve.
FOR KNOWLEDGE WORKERS
Apply AI at Work
Start with the basics of AI, then learn to build repeatable workflows and direct work with agents.
Great for people new to AI
Learn the basics of AI, large language models, and ChatGPT. You’ll practice giving clear instructions, adding useful context, reviewing outputs, and using AI responsibly in everyday work.
Great for people who have some experience
Turn a recurring task into a repeatable workflow. You’ll break the work into steps, identify where ChatGPT can help, and build review points into the process.
Great for people comfortable using AI
Practice directing agents through structured work. You’ll provide context, define outputs, set boundaries, review drafts, improve the workflow, and reuse what works.
FOR BUILDERS
Build with AI
Design, build, evaluate, and deploy AI solutions with Codex and the OpenAI API in the AI Builder courses.
OpenAI API
Identify valuable AI opportunities and turn the strongest into a solution plan.
→OpenAI API
Build representative evaluations, diagnose failures, and prevent quality regressions.
→OpenAI API
Design reliable agents with clear roles, controlled tools, and safe handoffs.
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Build retrieval pipelines and improve answer quality through evaluation.
→OpenAI API
Balance quality, latency, reliability, throughput, and cost using production evidence.
→Codex
Scope repository tasks, verify code changes, and provide clear review evidence.
→Codex
Turn effective Codex habits into reusable, well-governed team workflows.
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Coordinate parallel Codex workstreams and integrate their outputs safely.
→FOR LEADERS
Lead AI Adoption
Work through one AI initiative and create an initial AI strategy draft. Learn to connect it to business priorities, define ownership and governance, build a roadmap, and plan for adoption.
Lead AI Adoption
Learn how to choose AI opportunities worth backing and guide initiatives from business priority to responsible adoption. You’ll strengthen your judgment around evidence, plan clear next actions, and build an AI Strategy Brief Pack others can use to move the work forward.
Modelling AI use and setting direction
Building your AI roadmap
Connecting AI to business value
Governance for responsible scale
Leading AI adoption
Designing AI workflows
Developing reliable AI solutions
Operationalizing what works
FOR EDUCATION
Teach and Learn with AI
Learn how to use AI to support your studies, teach your students, learn faster, and prepare for the future.
For educators
Learn how to use ChatGPT to develop teaching materials that align with learning objectives and student needs. You’ll use your own materials to plan lessons, create activities or assessments, and review responses to decide what belongs in your teaching.
For college students
Learn how to use ChatGPT for practical study and career tasks. You’ll practice planning study and group work, reviewing responses critically, improving drafts, and preparing for applications and interviews, guided by your own judgment and your institution’s rules.
Build practical AI skills for work
OpenAI Academy courses help people build practical AI skills through hands-on learning. Together, the courses create a connected learning pathway designed to help people understand AI, apply it to real work, and turn successful approaches into repeatable ways of working.
Built by OpenAI, the courses bring together product guidance, research, safety expertise, and workplace practice to help learners build the skills and habits needed to work effectively with AI.
Why take these courses?
People build AI fluency by practicing on work that matters to them.
Developed with the teams building OpenAI's models and products, each course is built around real workplace tasks and hands-on activities. You'll practice giving clear instructions, adding relevant context, reviewing outputs, deciding what to delegate, and staying in control of the work.
Guide for deploying OpenAI Academy courses across your organization
Learn how to make courses broadly available, engage executive sponsors, and launch with coordinated organization-wide communications. The guide also includes practical steps for reinforcing participation, measuring available signals, and sharing outcomes.