The Online Teaching and Learning Certificate is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills required to effectively design and deliver instruction online. The program aims to meet the needs of today’s working professionals across many learning and development contexts.

What can a certificate in Online Teaching and Learning do for you?

The Online Teaching and Learning Certificate is designed for educators and professionals working in school settings, workplace training and other learning and development settings who want to learn how to deliver an effective online teaching and learning system. The online courses use hands-on design activities using real-world instructional challenges with professional digital tools. Designed to be completed in just one year, students can apply the skills gained in the courses to their career right away.

The credits earned through Online Teaching and Learning Certificate can be applied towards Drexel’s customizable Master’s in Education Improvement and Transformation program or combined with other School of Education certificate programs to create a personalized plan of study.

How long does it take to earn a certificate in Online teaching and Learning?

• Instructional Delivery: Online
• Calendar Type Quarter: (each quarter lasts 10 weeks plus one week for final exams and projects)
• Expected time to completion: 1 year
• Number of credits needed for completion: 9.0

Course descriptions may be found in the Drexel University Course Catalog. Online students have access to the same resources as on-campus students including individualized advising and support services, access to the Steinbright Career Development Center, the Drexel Writing Center, Drexel Libraries, counseling and health services, and the Drexel alumni network.

What are the requirements to earn a certificate in Online Teaching and Learning?

Admissions Criteria

• A bachelor's degree or equivalent from a regionally accredited institution

Required Documents

With multiple ways to submit documents, Drexel makes it easy to complete your application. Learn more by visiting their Completing Your Application Guide.

• A completed application
• Official transcripts from all universities or colleges and other post-secondary educational institutions (including trade schools) attended
• Resume/CV
• Additional requirements for International Students

Who is eligible to earn a certificate in Online teaching and Learning?

• Certificate level: Graduate
• Admission requirements: Bachelor’s degree
• Certificate: Post-Baccalaureate
• Financial aid eligibility: Not Aid Eligible

How do I apply to earn a certificate in Online Teaching and Learning?

The Graduate Certificate in Online Teaching and Learning is taught 100% online. Students can get started by filling out the Drexel Online Application.

Discover learning that fits your life. In Bethel’s Alcohol and Drug Counseling Certificate program, you’ll be prepared to begin a career helping others overcome addiction. Our program focuses on up-to-date, evidence-based care that focuses on treating the whole-person, affecting mind, body, and spirit. You’ll build a strong foundation in alcohol and drug counseling that will support your career in social work, mental health, congregational care, and other areas.

Our certificate program will strengthen your counseling skills and prepare you for licensure in Minnesota as an alcohol and drug counselor

If you want your business to secure the most lucrative IT contracts, it’s essential to prove your expertise. The best way to achieve this is by earning professional certifications from top names like Microsoft. You just need the right exam prep.

Featuring 11 full-length video courses, the Complete 2024 Microsoft Tech Certification Training Super Bundle provides the ideal groundwork for your tech education in 2024. The included content is worth $429, but you can get lifetime access for only $79.99 via TechRepublic Academy.

If you work in IT or cybersecurity, you’re pretty much guaranteed to come across Microsoft technology. Around 85% of Fortune 500 companies currently use Azure, and many more businesses rely on other Microsoft products. Becoming a Microsoft Certified Expert can help you capture these potential customers.

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The graduate certificate in Mind, Brain, and Learning is a truly innovative program that gives students an overview of the emergence of Mind, Brain, and Education science. This interdisciplinary certificate provides students with the knowledge, skills, and experience to engage in innovative teaching, assessment, and instructional design in alignment with the human learning process.

What can a Graduate Certificate in Mind, Brain, and Learning do for you?

The graduate certificate in Mind, Brain, and Learning provides educators and professional development trainers with the opportunity to study Mind, Brain, and Education science within real-world contexts. The program is ideal for instructors, professors, instructional designers, professional development administrators, and more who work in higher education, and other education-related fields.

The benefits of the program include:

• Flexible, online courses
• Individualized advising and support
• Access to all Drexel University facilities and resources including the Writing Center, Drexel libraries, counseling and health services, and the Steinbright Career Development Center.
• Customizable assignments that align with a student’s current or future position
• Diverse faculty and practitioners with extensive experience in higher education, learning sciences, Mind, Brain, and Education science, creativity, and Universal Design 

How Long Does it Take to Earn a graduate certificate in Mind, Brain, and Learning?

• Instructional Delivery: Online
• Calendar Type: Quarter (courses run 10 weeks)
• Expected Time to Completion: Less than 1 year
• Number of Credits to Completion: 9
• Course descriptions can be found in the Drexel University Course catalog.

What are the requirements to earn a Graduate Certificate in Mind, Brain, and Learning?

Admissions criteria:

• A bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited institution

Required Documents

Who is eligible to earn a certificate in Mind, Brain, and Learning?

Students can apply online for the graduate certificate in Mind, Brain, and Learning. You can start your application here.

Smarter teaching through big data

Do you want to better understand how your students respond to eLearning? Would you like to maximize each student's learning potential while enhancing your own teaching methods? It all comes down to data — how you collect, understand and act on it.

By earning your Graduate Certificate in Learning Analytics from Brandeis GPS, you'll discover methods for translating data about student performance, curricula and other components into strategic recommendations. This program is especially helpful administrators, instructional designers and researchers who want to:

• Lead eLearning initiatives and evaluations.
• Apply business intelligence principles and strategic analytics to Strengthen student performance and retention.
• Evaluate legal and ethical implications of using educational data.
• Create innovative teaching approaches through analyzing large sets of learning data.
• Realize the long-term benefits of studying in small classes at one of the country's top universities.

Please note that they are not currently accepting applications for the Graduate Certificate in Learning Analytics.

Courses and Requirements

Part-time | Fully online | Financially accessible

Your 15-credit Graduate Certificate in Learning Analytics consists of four required courses and one elective option.

Required courses like Learning Analytics and Statistics expand your knowledge of fundamental topics, while electives supply you the opportunity to build skills in specific areas of interest such as marketing, customer analytics and leading instructional design projects.

The Learning Analytics Industry

Using data patterns to transform education

The need continues to grow for specialists who can use data to Strengthen decision-making around education quality and government investments in digitizing the education sector. In fact, the learning analytics field is expected to grow by 29.8% and reach $34.7 billion by 2027. With the increased use of artificial intelligence and machine learning, exciting professional opportunities in this field abound.

Meet Our Featured Faculty

Leading learning analytics influencer and experts

Our gifted faculty practice what they teach. You'll have the opportunity to work with some of the top professionals and subject experts in the learning analytics field. Their professional connections and network can help you reach your career goals, now and in the future.

Go beyond the walls of the classroom and put your discipline into practice in real world settings. Learning Beyond the Classroom (LBC) is a certificate program that enhances student marketability in the work force.

Learning Beyond the Classroom (LBC) is open only to students majoring in the College of Science. It is a voluntary program aimed at encouraging you, the College of Science student, to engage in activities that provide hands-on experience and opportunities to apply classroom knowledge. Successful completion of the LBC program will be noted on your official Purdue transcript. You will also receive a certificate of completion.

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The Program

Participation in LBC involves attending, organizing, or leading activities that fall into three general categories: career and professional development; service, citizenship and leadership; and experience with domestic and international diversity.

Career and Professional Development

Service, Citizenship and Leadership

Experience with Diversity

Progress in each of the three areas is tracked by a point system. Points are earned by submitting reports on participation in activities. The number of points earned varies with the intensity of the activity.

Completing the LBC certificate requires that you:

• Participate in at least one intensive activity lasting an extended period of time, such as semester-long study abroad, full-time summer internship, two (consecutive) semesters of undergraduate research, an entrepreneurial activity together with the Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and academic year resident assistant. Such an activity is worth 10 points.
• Accumulate a total of 24 points, with at least 4 points in each of 3 categories.
• Include either (a) 3 credits of approved coursework with grades of P or C- or higher (one or more courses totaling 3 credits can meet this requirement) or (b) a semester-long study abroad program (worth 10 points) or some combination of spring break (4 points) and/or summer study abroad activities (6 points), totaling 10 points.

In most cases, a maximum of 6 points per year and 10 points in total may be earned for any particular activity. It is estimated that completion of the certificate will take approximately 30 hours over your college career in addition to the intensive 10-point activity described above.

The Benefits

Don't just get a degree, get an education!

The College of Science wants you to learn beyond the classroom! As majors in the College you already work with their faculty and staff to develop into skilled scientists of the future. You practice applying these skills in their laboratories and workshops. Now they are asking you to take advantage of the many opportunities you have while you are in college to go beyond the walls of the classrooms and labs and put your disciplines into practice in real world settings. They think this experience is of such importance that they will recognize you for doing so with a Learning Beyond the Classroom Certificate that will be noted on your Purdue academic transcript.

The benefits:

• Expanded academic achievement 
• Improved classroom performance
• Enhanced prospects for graduate school and employment
• Increased competence in discipline
• Strengthened confidence as a professional

A latest analysis shows that students who have earned the Learning Beyond the Classroom Certificate have a higher GPA at graduation and finish their degrees more quickly than students who did not earn an LBC certificate.

The GPA of students with LBC certification is on average 0.213 higher than those without LBC (p < 0.001). Students with LBC certification on average graduated half a semester earlier than those without LBC (p < 0.001). The LBC group has its on-time graduation rate higher by 12.27% (p < 0.001).

Courses

Among the requirements of the Learning Beyond the Classroom Certificate Program is that you participate in either (a) approved coursework with grades of P or C- or higher (one or more courses totaling 3 credits meets this requirement) or (b) semester-ling study abroad or the equivalent.

Here is a table of courses that have been identified as meeting the objectives of this program. If there is an experiential course which is not here that you believe to be similar to those listed, contact the administrator. The College of Science Office of Undergraduate Education reserves the right to determine whether a course meets the program criteria.

How to Enroll

Ready to enroll in the College of Science Learning Beyond the Classroom Certificate Program? Just take the following steps:

1. The first thing you need to do is go to https://lbc.science.purdue.edu/ and complete the survey.
2. Within one week of your enrollment, you will receive a welcome e-mail and be able to access the D2l Certificate BrightSpace Site. Log onto BrightSpace.
   • There you should see the College of Science LBC site. On it, you will find the report forms for the different types of activities as well as instructions on how to submit your completed reports electronically through the site.  
   • You may start accumulating points at any point in your college career. The sooner you begin, the easier it will be to reach the point threshold needed for the certificate.
   • We encourage students to submit reports as soon as possible after completion of the activity.

Funding for Student Activities

Funding is available to help you make the most of your learning experiences outside the classroom. Whether it's registration fees for a professional conference or housing and transportation to participate in a service learning activity, grants are available to help you learn beyond the classroom.

Questions?  Contact the administrator at LBC@purdue.edu

What are the benefits of CIRTL training?

• Prepare for faculty teaching responsibilities and increase your marketable skills
• Learn to design engaging, evidence-based learning experience
• Get hands-on classroom teaching experience
• Craft a teaching statement for the job search
• Document evidence of teaching experience
• Learn to conduct classroom- based research to Strengthen teaching and learning
• Balance teaching and research experience for a well-rounded CV

Can I earn a CIRTL certificate fully online? How are the Hybrid and Online tracks different?

Yes, all required courses are delivered in the fully online format. You may choose to complete your certificate by taking only online courses, or by taking some courses in the face-to-face format. If you have questions regarding your personal academic plan for CIRTL, please reach out to Dr. Stefanie Varghese at sbvarghese@uab.edu.

Are there prerequisites? Can I take the courses in any order?

A few courses do have prerequisites and must be taken in that order. The recommended course sequence:

1. GRD 705/752 – take one of these first
2. GRD 750 CIRTL Seminar on Teaching & Learning
3. GRD 751 CIRTL Seminar on Teaching as Research
4. GRD 755 CIRTL Practicum (prereq. GRD 705/752 and GRD 750)
5. GRD 716 Developing a Teaching Portfolio (prereq. GRD 705/752and 750)

I see that these courses are Pass/No Pass. Will they still count toward my degree?

Yes, when you complete the required courses for the CIRTL certificates, you will earn a credential that will be noted on your official UAB academic transcript.

In most degree programs, CIRTL courses may also count toward the total number of credits required for graduation. CIRTL courses earn you graduate credit; confirm with your Program Director to make sure that your academic degree program has room for you to earn graduate credit in the Pass/NoPass grading format.

What is the difference between CIRTL Practitioner and CIRTL Scholar?

Everyone who earns the CIRTL Practitioner degree is eligible to apply for the CIRTL Scholar certificate. After you complete the Practitioner certificate, apply for the Scholar program and complete six additional hours of CIRTL graduate coursework during which you will design and implement a Teaching As Research project. In short: Practitioner + 6 credit hours of TAR = Scholar.

What is the CIRTL Associate and how can I earn that recognition?

UAB Students, Faculty, Practitioners, and Staff have access to the National Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL) Network resources. CIRTL Network resources provide opportunities to learn more about specific teaching subjects and learn at your own pace. Join CIRTL National Network at www.cirtl.net.

Because of UAB’s affiliation with the National CIRTL Network, anyone who completes the courses below may be recognized as a CIRTL Associate without earning the complete graduate certificate.

• GRD 705: Teaching at the College Level
• GRD 750: Seminar in Teaching and Learning &
• GRD 716: Developing a Teaching Portfolio

Smarter teaching through big data

Do you want to better understand how your students respond to eLearning? Would you like to maximize each student's learning potential while enhancing your own teaching methods? It all comes down to data — how you collect, understand and act on it.

By earning your Graduate Certificate in Learning Analytics from Brandeis GPS, you'll discover methods for translating data about student performance, curricula and other components into strategic recommendations. This program is especially helpful administrators, instructional designers and researchers who want to:

• Lead eLearning initiatives and evaluations.
• Apply business intelligence principles and strategic analytics to Strengthen student performance and retention.
• Evaluate legal and ethical implications of using educational data.
• Create innovative teaching approaches through analyzing large sets of learning data.
• Realize the long-term benefits of studying in small classes at one of the country's top universities.

Please note that they are not currently accepting applications for the Graduate Certificate in Learning Analytics.

Courses and Requirements

Part-time | Fully online | Financially accessible

Your 15-credit Graduate Certificate in Learning Analytics consists of four required courses and one elective option.

Required courses like Learning Analytics and Statistics expand your knowledge of fundamental topics, while electives supply you the opportunity to build skills in specific areas of interest such as marketing, customer analytics and leading instructional design projects.

The Learning Analytics Industry

Using data patterns to transform education

The need continues to grow for specialists who can use data to Strengthen decision-making around education quality and government investments in digitizing the education sector. In fact, the learning analytics field is expected to grow by 29.8% and reach $34.7 billion by 2027. With the increased use of artificial intelligence and machine learning, exciting professional opportunities in this field abound.

Meet Our Featured Faculty

Leading learning analytics influencer and experts

Our gifted faculty practice what they teach. You'll have the opportunity to work with some of the top professionals and subject experts in the learning analytics field. Their professional connections and network can help you reach your career goals, now and in the future.