OpenAI Academy is a free, public learning hub with live events, on-demand sessions, and structured paths for getting more out of ChatGPT and the broader OpenAI toolset. The pace of new sessions is steady but not overwhelming, and the content covers everything from foundational prompting to higher-education-specific use cases.
It is a useful complement to Anthropic Academy — together they give you the major model providers’ own perspectives on how to work with their tools well.
What’s available
- Live and on-demand sessions — practical workshops on prompting, ChatGPT features, and applied use cases. Recordings are available afterward.
- Higher-education programming — a dedicated “Higher Education” club with sessions like Codex on Campus (using Codex for productivity across roles, not just developers).
- Featured event: Prompting with Purpose — Best Practices and Techniques — a foundational session covering prompt structure, framing, and iteration. A solid starting point if you have ever felt stuck rewriting the same prompt three times.
Why this resource
- Free, with no enterprise subscription required.
- Sessions are short and applied — most are under an hour.
- Content is updated as ChatGPT capabilities evolve, so it stays current.
- Useful for departments standardizing on ChatGPT or rolling out ChatGPT Edu/Business licenses.
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A note on the OpenAI Forum
The OpenAI Forum is a related community space worth joining. You will get periodic emails about upcoming events — recent topics have included AI in healthcare, AI in scientific research, and practical “how to use ChatGPT to get hired” sessions. The email pace is reasonable, not annoying.
Suggested for
Anyone using ChatGPT regularly — particularly faculty experimenting with assignment design, staff exploring administrative use cases, and students learning prompting fundamentals.