Maqsad, Pakistan’s leading EdTech platform, has launched AI for Educators, a hands-on course designed to teach teachers, university faculty, and educational leaders how to use cutting-edge artificial intelligence tools to become more effective and productive in their teaching practice. The course, taught by instructor Abdul Haseeb, begins on June 29, 2026, and runs across six live sessions over a two-week period, with a certificate awarded upon successful completion. Educators interested in enrolling can apply at maqsad.io/ai-for-educators.
The course is built around a conviction that one of the most consequential applications of artificial intelligence in Pakistan lies not in any single industry but in its potential to meaningfully raise the quality of education across all levels, from primary schooling through university instruction. Rather than treating AI as a tool that primarily benefits students who use it to complete assignments more efficiently, the course is oriented around equipping the educators themselves with the skills to harness AI tools for lesson planning, content creation, and instructional design, on the premise that better-equipped teachers produce better educational outcomes for the students they serve regardless of the subject or level being taught.
The curriculum covers a comprehensive suite of AI tools, each mapped to specific teaching tasks rather than introduced as abstract capabilities. ChatGPT is taught for planning lessons, building worksheets, and developing marking schemes, addressing some of the most time-consuming administrative aspects of teaching. Gemini is used to generate clean visuals for slides and to build custom AI assistants tailored to specific classroom needs. NotebookLLM is applied to transforming past papers into summaries and revision notes, while Claude is taught for planning whole units and projects from start to finish, giving educators a tool for the kind of structured, long-form curriculum design that benefits from AI assistance in organising complex material coherently. Brisk is introduced as a tool for converting any article or video into a ready-to-use lesson, ElevenLabs for producing voiceovers and listening clips in any voice, Veo3 for generating short teaching videos from a few lines of text, and Hailuo AI for producing video clips that bring difficult or abstract topics to life visually.
What distinguishes the course from more conventional AI training is its emphasis on practice over lecture, with organisers describing the format as 70 to 80 percent scenario-based and hands-on, meaning participants spend the majority of their time actually performing real teaching tasks using AI tools rather than passively observing demonstrations. The course also positions itself as going beyond the basic, often vague prompting that most casual AI users rely on, teaching instead the specific methods needed to extract precise, useful outputs from these tools rather than generic responses that require extensive editing before they become classroom-ready. Each session is designed to produce a tangible, ready-to-use output that participants can immediately apply within their own classrooms, ensuring that the course delivers practical value incrementally throughout its two-week duration rather than deferring all useful output to the end. For teachers, university faculty, and educational leaders across Pakistan looking to integrate AI meaningfully into their teaching practice, the course offers a structured and applied pathway to do so, with registration open at maqsad.io/ai-for-educators ahead of the June 29 start date.
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