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¹ú²ú´«Ã½ the Program

Social impact design and evaluation is growing in popularity and use. It draws from existing fields of program and policy design and evaluation, human development, organizational development, and community development. It also incorporates innovations and perspectives such as implementation science, human-centered design, social innovation, and data science. Social impact design and evaluation practices and skills are relevant to nearly every field and discipline, including education, medicine, nursing, public health, environmental studies, public policy, and business.

Key Takeaways

Upon completion of the certificate, students will be able to:

  • Describe the value of social context analysis and careholder engagement in social impact design and evaluation, and develop tools for designing and implementing both
  • Understand and employ the technical competencies associated with social impact design and evaluation such as design of multi-level interventions; study design; data collection, management, and analysis; and data visualization and use
  • Understand and employ the tactical competencies associated with social impact design and evaluation such as relationship development and maintenance, conflict navigation, problem setting, advocacy, and storytelling
  • Ground social impact design and evaluation in principles and practices that foster equity and justice

Who Should Enroll?

  • Prerequisites: Completed Bachelor’s degree plus current enrollment in a master’s or doctoral degree program within ¹ú²ú´«Ã½. Students must take Program Evaluation or Evaluation of Organizational Performance, and Applied Data Analysis and Visualization for Social Impact prior to taking the practicum course.
  • Best Suited For:ÌýCurrent Peabody and ¹ú²ú´«Ã½ master’s or doctoral students who are planning careers in government, nonprofit, academic or corporate settings who want to design and assess significant change that impact a pressing social challenge

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Certificate in Pediatric Psychosocial Care /online-learning/program/certificate-in-pediatric-psychosocial-care/ Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:30:13 +0000 /online-learning/?post_type=program&p=1676 The post Certificate in Pediatric Psychosocial Care appeared first on ¹ú²ú´«Ã½.

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¹ú²ú´«Ã½ the Program

Pediatric patients with special healthcare needs and their families experience a range of challenges in navigating various contexts of development. Data suggest that the majority of professionals whose role it is to support children’s success in academic settings and to foster psychosocial and physical well-being in children and youth are ill prepared to meet the complex needs of this particularly vulnerable population. This certificate will prepare future youth-serving professionals with a unique set of research and practice skills to understand and respond to the psychosocial needs of children and families with special healthcare needs. Meeting these needs can lead to more positive healthcare encounters and improved behavioral, psychological and academic outcomes for the most vulnerable children and youth.

This certificate is best suited for future healthcare, education, advocacy, and youth-serving professionals, such as those working in education, special education, healthcare, counseling, applied behavior analysis, severe disabilities, or child and family advocacy.

Key Takeaways

Through this certificate, students will develop skills relevant to:

  • Understanding the complex psychosocial needs of children, adolescents and families in health care settings and situations
  • Conducting pediatric healthcare research with children and their families and identifying evidence-based techniques for improving the quality and efficacy of medical and psychosocial care and research with/for children
  • Identifying seminal and contemporary theories of loss and grief, and examining evidence-based interventions that positively impact loss and grief trajectories for children and families

Who Should Enroll?

  • Prerequisites: Completed Bachelor’s degree plus current enrollment in a master’s or doctoral degree program within ¹ú²ú´«Ã½. Successful completion of undergraduate or graduate coursework in child development and research methods is a prerequisite to enrollment.
  • Note: Not all Peabody professional degree programs include enough elective credits to make earning an additional certificate possible. Students are encouraged to confer with their program director as well as with certificate directors to ensure they can meet all requirements for both degree and certificate programs.

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Certificate in Learning Analytics /online-learning/program/certificate-in-learning-analytics/ Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:26:23 +0000 /online-learning/?post_type=program&p=1674 The post Certificate in Learning Analytics appeared first on ¹ú²ú´«Ã½.

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¹ú²ú´«Ã½ the Program

The goal of learning analytics is to better understand and improve learning for students, teachers, administrators, and other stakeholders and to better comprehend, organize, and provision educational data. Learning analytics is strongly focused on providing in-time information to inform interventions and teaching methodologies through predictive modeling. The end result is more effective educational systems.

Learning analytics methods are generalizable to education researchers in many subfields that use large datasets to better understand educational outcomes. Students will develop knowledge of how learning analytics can be applied to the field of education intervention and policy.

Opportunities for students with experience in learning analytics include research positions, academic appointments, industry jobs in educational technology companies, and administrative employment at the school, district, state, and federal level. A certificate earned in this area could considerably strengthen graduates’ employability.

Key Takeaways

Through this certificate, students will:

  • Gain foundational skills and knowledge to analyze learner data from educational datasets
  • Be introduced to basic programming languages for analyzing data
  • Learn the essential principles for collecting, organizing, analyzing, and interpreting educational data
  • Use text analysis strategies and natural language processing techniques to extract information from educational related text
  • Explore advanced concepts in machine learning to conceptualize educational problems from an algorithmic perspective

Who Should Enroll?

  • Prerequisites: Completed Bachelor’s degree plus current enrollment in a master’s or doctoral degree program within ¹ú²ú´«Ã½
  • Note: Not all Peabody professional degree programs include enough elective credits to make earning an additional certificate possible. Students are encouraged to confer with their program director as well as with certificate directors to ensure they can meet all requirements for both degree and certificate programs.

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Certificate in Emerging Learning Technologies and AI /online-learning/program/certificate-in-emerging-learning-tech-and-ai/ Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:22:35 +0000 /online-learning/?post_type=program&p=1672 The post Certificate in Emerging Learning Technologies and AI appeared first on ¹ú²ú´«Ã½.

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¹ú²ú´«Ã½ the Program

Technology and artificial intelligence (AI) are ubiquitous in our lives and hold enormous potential for education. Through this certificate, students interested in the interplay of cognition, learning and technology will capitalize on faculty expertise and human-centered design principles to support learning and human development in contexts both inside and outside of classrooms, by children and adults.

Positions for graduates with knowledge and experience in emerging learning technologies and AI include learning interaction designer, AI learning consultant, educational technology specialist, technology integration coach, instructional designer, E-learning developer, or learning and development specialist

Key Takeaways

Upon completion of the certificate, students will be able to:

  • Identify opportunities and limitations of new and established technologies for particular learning situations
  • Critically analyze how technologies form part of larger systems of activity where people think and learn
  • Imagine new futures for how technology could be designed differently to support cognition and development
  • Create socio-technical designs that leverage the learning possibilities of novel technologies

Who Should Enroll?

  • Prerequisites: Completed Bachelor’s degree plus current enrollment in a master’s or doctoral degree program within ¹ú²ú´«Ã½
  • Note: Not all Peabody professional degree programs include enough elective credits to make earning an additional certificate possible. Students are encouraged to confer with their program director as well as with certificate directors to ensure they can meet all requirements for both degree and certificate programs.

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Certificate in Early Childhood Policy /online-learning/program/certificate-in-early-childhood-policy/ Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:16:58 +0000 /online-learning/?post_type=program&p=1670 The post Certificate in Early Childhood Policy appeared first on ¹ú²ú´«Ã½.

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¹ú²ú´«Ã½ the Program

Through coursework, students will be equipped with deep content knowledge regarding literacy, children’s learning and development, and poverty as these relate to early childhood outcomes.

This program is best suited for Peabody master’s students with interests in the early childhood domain.

This certificate will enable recipients to effect change through policy work focused on the earliest years in organizations such as government agencies or advocacy organizations or through school-based program development and/or evaluation.

Key Takeaways

Upon completion of the certificate, students will be able to:

  • Communicate effectively to policymakers about the importance of early childhood education initiatives at the local, state, and federal levels;
  • Advocate for research-backed early childhood education initiatives and programs;
  • Translate ECE research to practice, such that it is accessible and digestible to practitioners in the policy arena

Who Should Enroll?

  • Prerequisites: Completed Bachelor’s degree plus current enrollment in a master’s or doctoral degree program within ¹ú²ú´«Ã½
  • Note: Not all Peabody professional degree programs include enough elective credits to make earning an additional certificate possible. Students are encouraged to confer with their program director as well as with certificate directors to ensure they can meet all requirements for both degree and certificate programs.

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Dyslexia Studies Certificate /online-learning/program/dyslexia-studies-certificate/ Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:11:22 +0000 /online-learning/?post_type=program&p=1668 The post Dyslexia Studies Certificate appeared first on ¹ú²ú´«Ã½.

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¹ú²ú´«Ã½ the Program

Intervention supports can have a substantial positive effect for students’ reading and future academic outcomes. This certificate will provide graduate and professional students with the additional knowledge and skills required to support students with dyslexia in the educational system.

The curriculum is designed to provide participants with current research on assessment and intervention for students with dyslexia and similar learning disabilities. Students will learn about the challenges students with dyslexia may encounter, engage in administration and interpretation of instructional literacy assessments, and prepare and implement evidence-based literacy interventions for students with or at-risk for dyslexia and other reading disabilities in Grades K-12.

The program is best suited for students in education-related degree programs who seek careers in educational systems that will serve and support students with dyslexia.

Key Takeaways

Upon completion of the certificate, students will be able to:

  • Identify the brain networks associated with reading and writing and their disorders
  • Describe the brain basis of lexical processing
  • Understand processes for identifying students with dyslexia
  • Interpret formative literacy assessments
  • Use data to make instructional decisions for students with reading disabilities
  • Develop and implement instructional lessons for students with or at-risk for reading disabilities

Who Should Enroll?

  • The program is best suited for students in education-related degree programs who seek careers in educational systems that will serve and support students with dyslexia.
  • Prerequisites: Completed Bachelor’s degree plus current enrollment in a master’s or doctoral degree program within ¹ú²ú´«Ã½

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Applied Drug Discovery & Development Certificate /online-learning/program/applied-drug-discovery-and-development-certificate/ Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:51:30 +0000 /online-learning/?post_type=program&p=1663 The post Applied Drug Discovery & Development Certificate appeared first on ¹ú²ú´«Ã½.

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¹ú²ú´«Ã½ the Program

Dive into the exciting world of drug discovery and development with the —an immersive online journey crafted to deliver cutting-edge insights.

Our program, meticulously curated and presented by top-tier experts from the ¹ú²ú´«Ã½ School of Medicine Basic Sciences and the Warren Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery, goes beyond textbooks. It’s a dynamic fusion of theory and real-world case studies, constantly evolving to align with the latest scientific advances in the industry.

Key Takeaways

  • Earn a digital badge for each completed course, as well as a digital certificate if all 5 courses are completed, from a world-class academic drug discovery center
  • Gain a fundamental understanding of how drugs and medicines are discovered and developed
  • Advance your career with the most up-to-date discoveries
  • Learn from world-class experts and researchers who are leading the field

Who Should Enroll?

  • Graduate students (master’s, doctoral, and post-doctoral)
  • Faculty seeking to deepen their knowledge of the subject
  • Pharmaceuticals industry scientists and clinicians
  • Industry professionals seeking credentials, a refresher, or career advancement
  • Those who are considering a career pivot into drug discovery

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Global CertificateÌýin Corporate Sustainability /online-learning/program/global-certificate-in-corporate-sustainability/ Mon, 27 Nov 2023 23:17:01 +0000 /online-learning/?post_type=program&p=1435 The post Global CertificateÌýin Corporate Sustainability appeared first on ¹ú²ú´«Ã½.

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¹ú²ú´«Ã½ the Program

The challenges and opportunities presented by globalization, climate change, societal expectations, and technological advancements demand a new breed of business leaders. Leaders who not only understand profit and loss but also the intricate balance between organizational growth and sustainable corporate practices. This program, centered around corporate sustainability, is designed to equip professionalsÌýwithÌýthe knowledge, tools, and mindset to integrate sustainability into core business strategies, ensuring long-term resilience and success.

The online , offered in partnership with ¹ú²ú´«Ã½ Owen Graduate School of Management and University of British Columbia Sauder School of Business is unique, in that it’s about practical application—not limited to theoretical knowledge. Both North American universities bring global perspectives and business insights that provide a comprehensive view of corporate sustainability. This synergy results in a globally relevant curriculum that is deeply connected to real-world business challenges and opportunities.

Facts & Stats

  • #25 Best Business Schools 2023 list
    (U.S. News & World Report)
  • #2 Best Professors list 2023
    (Princeton Review)

Key Takeaways

In today’s fast-evolving business landscape, sustainability is a critical component of your company’s overall strategy. By participating in this online certificate program, you will be empowered to:

  • Define sustainability at your workplace.
  • Uncover why businesses embrace sustainability and how they initiate change.
  • Navigate external societal pressures and craft responsive strategies.
  • Evaluate corporate eco-actions, climate strategies, and unique sustainability paths.

Who Should Enroll?

¹ú²ú´«Ã½â€™s program is tailored for executives, managers, and decision-makers looking to integrate sustainability into their business strategies and practices.

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Computed Tomography /online-learning/program/computed-tomography/ Tue, 15 Aug 2023 15:47:18 +0000 /online-learning/?post_type=program&p=1354 The post Computed Tomography appeared first on ¹ú²ú´«Ã½.

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¹ú²ú´«Ã½ the Program

Through a hybrid learning environment the certificate program provides working professionals with an opportunity to become a CT technologist. Utilizing self-paced online coursework and in-person clinical training through rotations within the ¹ú²ú´«Ã½ Medical Center hospital system, learners can apply their knowledge to provide quality diagnostic imaging and patient care.

Key Takeaways

  • Coursework and clinical rotation completion in 6 months
  • Students are designated to a single, independent work assignment supervised by a board-certified technologist
  • Students receive a comprehensive overview prior to sitting for national board certification exams
  • Graduates eligible to sit for board exams (American Registry or Radiologic Technologists and Nuclear Medicine Technology Certification Board)
  • Asynchronous online coursework
  • In-person clinical rotation
  • Cohort based
  • Application required

Who Should Enroll?

is a post-primary specialty geared towards individuals who are interested in becoming medical imaging professionals who use specialized equipment to produce cross-sectional images of human anatomy. ¹ú²ú´«Ã½’s program accepts students with the following certifications:

  • R.T.(R)(ARRT)
  • R.T.(N)(ARRT)
  • R.T.(T)(ARRT)
  • CNMT (NMTCB)

The hybrid program allows working professionals the opportunity to fit the certificate program within their schedule.

 

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Post-Master’s Nursing CertificatesÌý /online-learning/program/post-masters-nursing-certificates/ Fri, 17 Mar 2023 18:06:54 +0000 /online-learning/?post_type=program&p=1117 The post Post-Master’s Nursing CertificatesÌý appeared first on ¹ú²ú´«Ã½.

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¹ú²ú´«Ã½ the Program

Open the door to new career opportunities with from ¹ú²ú´«Ã½. Designed for nurses who already hold a master’s or doctoral degree, these certificates provide an educational route to earning another specialization. The PMC program builds upon your established clinical skills and knowledge, allowing you to expand and explore new professional opportunities.Ìý

An individualized program of study is developed for each PMC student based on the student’s prior education and a gap analysis of courses or experiences needed to qualify for their specific specialty. Those selecting clinical specialties will benefit from a combination of didactic and clinical experiencesÌýthat will enable them to master the required competencies and meet the criteria for national certification. Note: Not all specialties require clinical experiences, and some do not offer national certification.Ìý

ÌýA wide variety of advanced practice specialties are available for PMC students to choose from, including Adult-Gerontology Primary Care NP, Emergency NP, Family NP, Nursing Education, Nursing Informatics, Psychiatric-Mental Health NP, and more. ÌýÌý

Facts & Stats

  • #8 U.S. News & World Report 2023
    rankings of Best Grad School Nursing MSN
  • #13 U.S. News & World Report 2023 rankings of National Universities
  • 26% Ethnic racial student enrollment across all VUSN programs in 2020

Key TakeawaysÌýÌý

  • Propel your career forward or make a complete career pivot with a certificate from a top-ranked universityÌý
  • Build an individualized program of study based on your academic history, skills, and experiencesÌý
  • Choose from a variety of in-demand advanced practice certifications, such as Psychiatric-Mental Health NP, Pediatric NP – PC, Nurse-Midwifery, Women’s Health/Gender-Related NP, and moreÌý
  • Learn in a flexible hybrid format that combines online learning with in-person simulations, assessments, and clinical sessionsÌý
  • Gain access to an extensive nurse faculty practice network and state-of-the-art facilitiesÌý

Who Should Enroll?

The from ¹ú²ú´«Ã½ is for nursing professionals who want to change or expand their current roles. Nurses interested in an area outside the specialization obtained during their master’s or doctoral programs can build upon their prior education and clinical knowledge to earn additional specialization in 13 specialties, including nursing education. Ìý

PMC applicants must have a master’s or doctoral degree in nursing and have certain prerequisite courses from an accredited college or university. Ìý

The academic specialty director will develop an individualized curriculum plan for the student based on an evaluation and gap analysis of their prior academic work. PMC and MSN students share classes and complete the academic and clinical requirements of their specialty together. The PMC student receives a certificate of academic achievement and is eligible to take the national certification exam for that specialty (if offered) upon certificate completion.Ìý

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