Online and Remote Learning

Career Wayfinding is a cohort-based three-part weekly workshop series that applies principles of design thinking to build an action plan for your career and life’s work. The workshops consist of interactive activities where you will work to gain new perspectives and interpret them in a way that can keep you motivated and inspired in your career journey. The sessions will also provide you with the tools to generate more ideas, increase creativity, and be more agile and future ready for your career journey. Whether you’re just starting out or looking to make a change, this series can help you gain clarity on where you are right now, brainstorm what steps you want to take next, and provide resources you need to become the confident navigator in your career journey. By the end of this course, you'll be able to: Enhance your problem-solving and creative thinking skills Gain clarity and motivation in career decision-making Develop a personalized career action plan by applying design thinking principles to identify current career challenges

Discover new career pathways that align with your existing skills in our two-day Alternative Careers workshop. Whether you're considering a career change or exploring additional opportunities, this workshop will guide you through identifying alternative career options that match your education and experience. Through interactive sessions and expert guidance, you’ll learn how to assess your transferable skills, explore emerging industries, and strategically position yourself for new roles. By the end of the workshop, you'll have a clearer understanding of potential career paths and the confidence to pursue them. This workshop is ideal for individuals looking to leverage their current expertise in new ways or expand their career horizons in today’s dynamic job market. Start your journey toward a fulfilling alternative career today! By the end of this course, you'll be able to: Evaluate your current skills and experiences to determine how they can apply to alternative career paths Identify emerging industries and roles that align with your skill set, education, and professional background Develop a personalized action plan to position yourself for success in alternative careers, including how to market your skills effectively

In today’s fast-moving marketplace, you need greater agility to stay ahead of change. In this course, you’ll learn how to accelerate project success using agile practices. You’ll discover new ways of organizing teams and projects that reduce waste while optimizing performance and product delivery. Among the skills you’ll develop: constructing key agile artifacts such as product backlogs and user stories; customer journey mapping; risk management, quality control and outsourcing strategies; and assessment of scaling frameworks such as SAFe and Nexus. 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: Organize an agile project for success and to support an organization’s strategy Explain agile team dynamics, key roles, and effective performance management Construct key agile artifacts such as product backlogs and user stories including prioritizing and estimation Design product delivery techniques, customer journey mapping, roadmaps, waste reduction, and processes Analyze risk management, quality control, and outsourcing strategies within agile environments Assess scaling frameworks such as SAFe and Nexus, understanding their benefits and challenges Competencies/skills developed in this micro course include: Managing agile teams Use agile methodologies (Scrum and Kanban) Scaling agile

Discover the wondrous anatomy of the human musculoskeletal system in this exciting seven-week micro-course. You’ll get a thorough introduction to the components of the musculoskeletal system: bones, joints, muscles and neurovascular supply, with an emphasis on the upper and lower extremities. You’ll learn how these structures work in concert to move the human body and how injury can impact normal functional movement. Ideal for yoga instructors, nurses, chiropractors, massage therapists—anyone who works (or aspires to work) in health-care related fields. By the end of this course, learners will be able to: Describe how the bones, joints, muscles, nerves, and blood vessels come together to form the upper extremity Explain how those structures work in concert to move the human body Identify how injury to these structures can impact normal functional movement Competencies/skills developed in this micro course include: Communication skills in a healthcare setting Instructional skills in a healthcare setting Analytical and problem-solving skills in a movement-related setting Foundational skills in exercise design

Traditionally, the Cold War has been explored through the lens of the US-Soviet Union divide. But Canada had a role to play in crafting the critical institutions that came to define the New International Order in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. Learn how the Cold War impacted Canada, how Canada contributed to the emerging NATO alliance, how Canada’s military protected allies around the world, how Canadian Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent reshaped the national identity, how questions of continentalism and sovereignty influenced Canadian decision makers, how the threat of nuclear attack spurred investments in the military, science and technology, and in collective defence, and finally, how these events of 70+ years ago still influence our world today. By the end of this course, you'll be able to: Examine Canadian political leadership and its global influence in the early Cold War Explore how Canada's role changed in international affairs from the Second World War to the Cold War Understand how international institutions that still exist today came to be and what role Canada had in shaping them Compare the military engagement of Canada's Cold War to today See how the legacies of the Cold War still impact Canada today