Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Learning Analytics
Certificate Level: Graduate
Admission Requirements: Bachelor's degree
Certificate Type: Post-Baccalaureate
Number of Credits to Completion: 9.0
Instructional Delivery: Online, Campus
Calendar Type: Quarter
Expected Time to Completion: 1 year
Financial Aid Eligibility: Not aid eligible
Classification of Instructional Program (CIP) Code: 13.0699
Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) Code: 25-1081
About the Program
The Learning Analytics program is designed to increase the ability of education practitioners to understand and improve instructional processes, understand the role of data in organizational change, and lead change in educational systems based on multiple data and information sources. The program prepares students to make data-driven decisions about education improvement using a broad range of data collection, analytical, and visualization methods. This program provides educators, instructional designers, researchers, and administrators with new tools for studying teaching and learning capable of providing actionable understandings. This affordable 9.0 credit stackable graduate certificate can be completed in three quarters of part-time study.
Program Requirements
| EDLT 591 | Learning Analytics: Lenses on students, teaching, and curriculum enactment | 3.0 |
| EDLT 592 | Information Enabled Change in Educational Organizations | 3.0 |
| EDLT 593 | Using Data to Understand Educational Systems | 3.0 |
| Total Credits | 9.0 | |
Sample Plan of Study
| First Year | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits |
| EDLT 591 | 3.0 | EDLT 592 | 3.0 | EDLT 593 | 3.0 |
| 3 | 3 | 3 | |||
| Total Credits 9 | |||||
Pathway to MS Completion
Note: This PBC may be used to earn 9.0 credits that applies towards attainment of the MS in Education Improvement and Transformation or MS in Learning Technologies (45.0 credits total) offered through the School of Education.
As the graphic below indicates, this certificate can be taken as a stand alone certificate program or "stacked" as part of the MS in Education Improvement and Transformation or the MS in Learning Technologies.
