Online and Remote Learning

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SCS is committed to making learning as accessible as possible both locally and across the globe. We are continuously expanding our list of over 540 online learning opportunities. From languages to accounting, we offer flexible learning opportunities.

Our online courses are instructor-led and delivered through the University of Toronto’s Learning Management Engine – Quercus. Quercus uses weekly, real time modules and has tools for engagement and community building. Course preparation has built in flexibility so you can read, study, and complete assignments on your own time.

You will communicate with your instructors via discussion boards and/or email. Some online courses include live, interactive webinars. If you’re unable to attend the live webinar, you will be able to view a recording of the webinar on your own schedule.

You may also want to investigate funding opportunities available to you on our Financial Assistance page. Your path to lifelong learning is more attainable than you think!

This course is designed for those who have obtained competency in accounting principles. You will delve deeper into the concepts of financial reporting and analysis. You will examine topics including cash and receivables, inventory investments, property, as well as intangible assets and goodwill.   This fourteen-week online course features both synchronous learning activities, such as weekly webinars, and asynchronous learning components, such as practice questions and assignments.   This course is recognized by the CPA Ontario. You can find more details here. Understand Generally Accepted Accounting Principles; concepts, assumptions and guidelines; recording and interpretation of financial statements. Acquire knowledge of the use of analytical tools such as financial-ratio analysis, and the interpretation of financial information.
  • Winter - 26
  • ON-LINE
This course is ideal for learners with a foundational understanding of accounting who are ready to deepen their knowledge and strengthen their practical skills. Through hands-on learning and applied analysis, learners will gain experience preparing financial reports and interpreting key financial data, including financial statements and their underlying components. Building on prior coursework in the accounting program, this course completes the intermediate-level foundation and prepares learners for roles in financial reporting and analysis. Key topics include liabilities, equity, taxable income, leases, and pension accounting—critical areas for those pursuing a career in accounting or finance. Understand Generally Accepted Accounting Principles; concepts, assumptions and guidelines; recording and interpretation of financial statements. Acquire knowledge of the use of analytical tools such as financial-ratio analysis, and the interpretation of financial information.
  • Winter - 26
  • ON-LINE
Healthcare professionals are exposed to others’ suffering on a regular basis through the very nature of their work. Empathic distress can be experienced as a normal consequence of empathic connection with those who are suffering. Compassion, rather than leading to fatigue and burnout, is a way of responding to others’ suffering that can strengthen our fortitude and benevolence. Drawing upon research and various models of compassion, you will discover mindfulness and compassion based practices that promote greater positive affect, connection, and resilience, even in the face of suffering. Through transformational meditative practices you will learn to activate your natural capacity for compassionate presence while strengthening your inner resources, ultimately improving the quality of care for yourself and others. Understand the evolutionary basis of compassion and the neuroscience supporting the efficacy of mindfulness and compassion for improving wellbeing and reducing the risk of burnout. Experience mindfulness and compassion meditative practices aimed at cultivating self-awareness, attunement to others, empathic concern and resilience. Learn to detect signs of empathic distress and the barriers to compassionate presence with yourself and others. Discover various methods of transforming empathy into compassion to enhance our response to suffering. Increase and maintain satisfaction and fulfillment in your life and career, while remaining in your healthcare occupation.
  • Winter - 26
  • ON-LINE
This introductory 12 weeks course provides the skills you need to begin front-end development in today’s ever changing IT landscape. Angular 16 and TypeScript which is now considered one of the most popular JavaScript framework for front-end development. Skills in Angular 16 and Restful Web Services are regarded essential for full-stack developer in today’s competitive IT world. Learn the fundamental concepts of front-end web development using HTML, CSS, TypeScript and Angular 16. The course covers beginning to advance topics in the Angular 16 framework such as the concepts of one-way vs two-way data binding, AngularJS Services and Single Page Application development. In addition, students will learn how to create Restful Web Services using the SpringBoot (Spring framework) and calling Restful web services through Angular 16 client. Finally, you will learn how to deploy your Angular 16 and Restful Web Services application work on Amazon Web Service, to demonstrate your skills to potential employers Design and produce a simple web application using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Angular 16. Learn fundamental Angular 16 concepts such as One-Way vs Two-Way data binding, Services, Dependency Injection, Inversion of Control and Single Page Application Development.  Learn how to code and debug Angular 16 using Microsoft Visual Code and Google Chrome Learn how to deploy and showcase Angular 16 and Restful Web Services application on Amazon Web Service, on Tomcat 9. 
  • Winter - 26
  • ON-LINE
To work as an English-Arabic translator, you must be able to render complex ideas from the fields of law, commerce and literature. This livestream course will build your qualifications and skills. You'll learn to critically analyze and accurately translate documents and get feedback on your written translations. All materials are provided in PDF format and you communicate with your instructor by email and webinar.  Handle common yet difficult translations. Avoid anglicisms and awkward syntax. Translate subtle and nuanced thoughts into written form. Make complex material accessible.
  • Winter - 26
  • ON-LINE
To work as an English-Arabic translator, you must be able to handle complex business and cultural demands. With this self-study Level III course, you're well on your way. Continue to build your analysis and translation skills and qualifications. Get supportive feedback on your oral and written translations. All materials are provided in PDF format and you communicate with your instructor by email.  Handle common yet difficult translations. Avoid anglicisms and awkward syntax. Render subtle and nuanced thoughts into written form. Translate more complex material.
  • Winter - 26
  • ON-LINE
Mindfulness informed end of life care assumes that compassion is the core intention of all health care. Yet how many of us have been trained in compassion as a response to suffering, illness and death? Can compassion be cultivated as a skill set and knowledge base? Can it become a learned behavior that promotes resiliency in ourselves and others? How does the scientific evidence inform our current understanding of compassion? Building on thetransformative practices of friendliness, loving kindness (metta), tonglen, and attitudes of gratitude, this workshop takes a closer look at compassion based models of practice. Identify the epistemes or epochs that define our world view, informing our understanding of suffering and our perceptions of personhood in life and end of life care Distinguish between sympathy, empathy, compassion and their implication for resiliency in health and end of life care Examine the contemporary compassion literatures Explore the relationship between mindfulness meditation and secure attachment (inter and Intra-personal neurobiology) Consider the embodiment of vulnerability in end of life care as an act of compassion towards self and others
  • Winter - 26
  • ON-LINE
In this course you explore how mindfulness and mindfulness meditation can impact on pain and pain management by changing our perspective on the experience of pain and suffering. You will also explore western and eastern views that can inform how we live with pain and suffering, the research into neuro-plasticity and pain, as well as the idea that we can change our brain and thereby change our mind and our experience with pain. Research has shown both that mindfulness meditation enhances the effectiveness of medication, and that pharma-care is more effective when it is accompanied by a therapeutic relationship. Social neuroscience suggests there are no single brains yet people who are suffering often feel quite alone. These pieces of research indicate that we should not underestimate the power of relationships, especially in end of life care situations. Outline the traditional view of pain and how neuroscience is informing a change to that understanding Explore attitudinal approaches to “knowing” that can shift perceptions of pain and suffering Outline the mindfulness pain management literature within the context of several author’s work Identify the qualitative and qualitative language of conveying pain (including pain scale, pain adjectives, art therapy) Learn mindfulness informed practices to reduce or resolve pain and suffering
  • Winter - 26
  • ON-LINE
There are many strategies of care within the scaffolding of end of life care counseling. This includes grief and bereavement theory, narrative work, brief solution focused therapy, dignity therapy, expressive arts, and existential counseling to name a few. In this course you will explore the integration of mindfulness and mindfulness meditation into these traditional therapeutic modalities. The new sciences of quantum physics and neuroscience are challenging scientific materialism, which is a new way of approaching health care and health care systems. As a part of this,  you will also explore how the new sciences are supporting a shift towards holism. Consider how the new sciences can inform our practices in health and end of life care, Identify the four foundational philosophies that support mindfulness meditation practices Explore ways to integrate mindfulness meditation into traditional models of counseling in end of life care Identify the shift from scientific materialism to holism Reflect on a new model of end of life counseling which is based on personhood and is existential by nature of its subjective practices and inquiry
  • Winter - 26
  • ON-LINE
This workshop will build and broaden upon the use of mindfulness and mindfulness meditation as a means of beginning to prepare for our dying. The “practice of dying” can be used daily in our living and our dying.  It can also be used as a decision- making model to determine our plans for health and end of life care. We will explore how mindfulness can inform the subjective experience of dying which can present as altered states of consciousness or as the dying brain. We will consider what the life after death, out of body and resuscitation literatures suggest about the nature of personhood and consciousness. In our final session, we will also explore how to embody mindfulness and mindful awareness so as to become what a mindful leader means to you.  To explore “a practice of dying” and its application in life and end of life care To practice three mindful ways of knowing (Siegel) that cultivating mindful awareness and can be helpful in decision making in end of life care To identify the concept and experience of altered states of consciousness and how they can inform end of life care. To encourage embodied mindfulness as behaviors or qualities of mind applied to leadership, community and organizational roles
  • Spring/Summer - 26
  • ON-LINE

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