Google Brings Free, Short-Form AI Training to Malaysian Educators

Google launched its free AI Educator Series in Malaysia at Bett Asia 2026 in Kuala Lumpur. The self-paced training gives school teachers and university faculty a way to practice classroom uses of AI in short sessions, from preparing lessons to making interactive assignments.

Short lessons, two kinds of classroom work

The series is designed for K–12 educators and higher-education faculty. Its sessions last 15 to 45 minutes and can be taken at each participant’s pace. That format lets an educator work through a specific task without committing to one extended course.

Google’s examples start with preparation: creating a lesson plan and supporting materials, or drafting a message to parents. The series also covers using AI-assisted coding to make interactive simulations and assignments. One set of exercises addresses work around a lesson; the other concerns what students might use during it.

Those tasks call for different judgments. A draft parent message can save writing time, but the teacher still decides what to send. An interactive assignment has to fit the lesson itself. The course gives educators examples of both uses rather than limiting AI training to administrative work.

More than 200,000Gemini Certified Educators in Malaysia

Google gives this certification figure as context for the launch. It is not a count of participants in the newly launched Malaysian series.

A school example, and its limits

Google points to Sekolah Kebangsaan Titian Bintangor, a primary school in Negeri Sembilan, as an example of how the series can spread among colleagues. It says an ICT teacher, Cikgu Amirul Faisal bin Azman, used the training in his own work and that every teacher at the school has joined the series.

That account shows the approach Google wants to encourage: an educator tries classroom-ready exercises, then colleagues take part. It is a company-provided example from one school, not a measure of how widely Malaysian educators will take up the series.

The certification figure likewise describes familiarity with Google’s educator tools, not a result of this launch. The question now is which exercises teachers choose to carry into their work—and whether those uses prove worthwhile once the lessons are over.