Online and Remote Learning

There is more to records and information management than storing and maintaining your organization’s data. In this online micro course, you’ll learn everything from basic concepts of managing paper, digital and media content to current best practices and critical issues in corporate governance. You’ll learn how to collect data and store it properly and establish strategies to assess a current (Records and Information Management) RIM model or develop a new one. Within 4-6 weeks of successfully completing this course, you will receive your micro-credential indicating achievement of the outlined learning outcomes and competencies/skills. Micro-credentials are tamper proof, verifiable, blockchain-based and 100% digital. They can be shared on social media, including LinkedIn and Facebook, embedded in websites or downloaded as PDFs. By the end of this micro course, you'll be able to: Learn basic concepts and definitions related to Records and Information Management. Understand the content and purposes of RIM Best Practices. Understand fundamentals of Information Governance, Roles and Responsibilities. Use basic tools to assess current records and information practices. Collect data to understand the content and use of records. Competencies/skills developed in this micro course include: Risk Mitigation Electronic Records Lifecycle Management Advocating for RIM Programs Data Collection Assessing RIM Programs

No matter what form information comes in, from paper records to digital images, your data must be kept and accessed in full compliance with privacy legislation, other regulations and corporate governance standards. In this online micro course, you’ll learn how to properly organize records, how long they should be kept, how to manage access and protect privacy. You’ll emerge better prepared to handle information with the care it needs. Within 4-6 weeks of successfully completing this course, you will receive your micro-credential indicating achievement of the outlined learning outcomes and competencies/skills. Micro-credentials are tamper proof, verifiable, blockchain-based and 100% digital. They can be shared on social media, including LinkedIn and Facebook, embedded in websites or downloaded as PDFs. By the end of this micro course, you'll be able to: Understand the fundamentals of designing records categorization for organizing records. Understand the life cycle of records from creation to disposal or archiving. Understand the fundamentals of establishing records retention periods to establish how long records should be kept. Learn about records access, protection and security. Competencies/skills developed in this micro course include: Records Lifecycle Management Records Classification Records Retention Privacy Protection Vital Records Management

Successful organizations need professionals who can actively participate in implementation and operations of strong records and information management programs. This intermediate course takes you deeper into information storage, governance, security and privacy issues. You’ll learn the best ways to classify and retain information. You’ll develop effective risk-assessment policies and procedures. You’ll explore emerging trends in digital preservation, information architecture and Electronic Documents and Records Management (EDRM) systems, across the life cycle management of information. Create functional classification and taxonomies. Adopt and maintain an effective retention schedule. Develop effective risk-assessment policies and procedures. Ensure compliance with relevant local, regional or national legal requirements of RIM practice. Be aware of emerging information management and record-keeping issues.

If you have learned the fundamentals of records & information management, and are familiar with its tools, standards and practices, this advanced course takes you deeper into development of a strategy and roadmap. The course provides insights you need to develop strong records and information management strategies and successfully implement them. Identification of strategic business drivers, developing and presenting a business case and monitoring its performance with metrics will be covered. Identify components of a RIM roadmap and strategy Develop and present a business case for RIM implementation Apply project management, monitoring and performance measurement of a RIM program Identify business process improvement methodologies in RIM programs Describe and apply change management principles in the context of technology changes, digitization and process improvement

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Among the foundation stones of Western literature are considered to be Homer’s Iliad about the long siege of Troy, and the Odyssey, the story of one man’s ten-year attempt to return home after Troy. They are oral poems, popularly entertaining tales of heroes, love, conflict and betrayal. Join us as we situate Homer’s two great epics within ancient Greek culture and society, learn Greek mythology, and discover what made these works so widely loved in their day. We'll see how they shaped our sense of literature, both serious and popular today.   Identify the differences between oral narratives and written narratives. Learn about Greek mythology and its influence on western literature and art.                                                                      Contextualize the works within ancient Greek culture and society. Appreciate what made these works so well received in their day. Understand better Homer’s contribution to literature and the novel today.

To succeed in today’s competitive business environment, organizations must not only collect reams of data but glean the most useful insights from this information. In this five-session micro course, you’ll learn to use Python to organize and analyze data and tell compelling stories your customers and stakeholders understand. You’ll plan your own analytics project, using Python to import data, organize it into a data frame and analyze it correctly. You’ll emerge well equipped to apply these methods at work and become a better business storyteller. Within 4-6 weeks of successfully completing this course, you will receive your micro-credential indicating achievement of the outlined learning outcomes and competencies/skills. Micro-credentials are tamper proof, verifiable, blockchain-based and 100% digital. They can be shared on social media, including LinkedIn and Facebook, embedded in websites or downloaded as PDFs. By the end of this micro course, you'll be able to: Plan an analytics project. Apply basic statistical methods. Import data into Python, organize into a data frame and conduct basic analysis. Tell a compelling story with data. Competencies/skills developed in this micro course include: Python Programming Descriptive Statistics with Python Querying Databases with SQL Data Analytics Data Visualization Business Storytelling with Data

If you already know how to use Python to organize and analyze data, this second-level micro course is for you. You’ll learn to apply data cleansing techniques and inferential statistical methods. You’ll develop a clearer understanding of how predictive models can support more informed business decisions, and create one using the insights you pulled. You’ll explore the fascinating world of data visualization and machine learning and emerge with greater confidence in the stories you tell and the data they’re based on. Within 4-6 weeks of successfully completing this course, you will receive your micro-credential indicating achievement of the outlined learning outcomes and competencies/skills. Micro-credentials are tamper proof, verifiable, blockchain-based and 100% digital. They can be shared on social media, including LinkedIn and Facebook, embedded in websites or downloaded as PDFs. By the end of this micro course, you'll be able to: Apply data cleansing techniques to your dataframe. Apply inferential statistical methods. Build a basic predictive model and draw insights. Competencies/skills developed in this micro course include: Cleaning Data Exploring Data Predictive Modeling Drawing Inferences from Data Assessing Data Quality Data Privacy Data Security

This course will equip you with the fundamental machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms and techniques for mining and analyzing data, and extracting insights for data-driven decision making. You will learn how to formulate a ML/AI problem, prepare data, build and optimize predictive models using a wide range of algorithms and evaluate the performance of those models. Throughout the course you will use Scikit-learn and TensorFlow hands-on to build applications that learn from data. The Data Science courses are also offered online in partnership with University of Waterloo - WatSPEED.  3586 - Machine Learning - ONLINE Note: If you wish to apply the 3586 - Machine Learning - ONLINE completed at University of Waterloo - WatSPEED towards the Certificate in Artificial Intelligence at School of Continuing Studies, please follow the Prior Learning Application form on SCS website.   Formulate machine learning and AI problems Learn techniques to pre-process data for modeling  Train generalized predictive classification and regression models Identify clusters in data such as market segments Evaluate and combine models for best performance

The intent of this learning experience is to help you strengthen your own personal and professional contributions in group settings, to lead and develop stronger teams. You’ll learn how mindfulness can improve interpersonal relations, personal accountability, information sharing, productive conflict, support psychological safety and enhance team performance. You’ll also learn practical mindfulness techniques that can be applied in various team settings. Each live, weekly session will combine theory and experiential learning practices including several discussion points to cultivate a team environment amongst participants. Each week will also have a self-directed learning component that will include posting self-reflective assignments to support your understanding of the course content while creating opportunity to engage in on-going discussions to strengthen relationship building and enhance the course’s team environment. By the end of this course, learners will have an increased understanding on: How mindfulness can improve self-awareness and interpersonal communication to strengthen team relationships. The competencies and environments that contribute to team effectiveness. The top two downfalls of teams and how to overcome them. How to lead groups through a mindful pause and at least one additional mindful practice.