Continuous Professional Learning Micro-credentials

Faculty of Social & Community Services, Continuous Professional Learning

ABA Strategies for Front-line Educators

This micro-credential equips front-line educators with practical Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) strategies to effectively support students with diverse learning needs. This micro-credential introduces basic principles and concepts of ABA, including the use of evidence-based interventions to promote positive behavioural outcomes. Modules emphasize practical application and problem-solving, such as the use of Functional Behaviour Assessments and the exploration of behavior intervention strategies, including positive reinforcement, token economies, and behavior contracts.

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Faculty of Media, Creative Arts, and Design, Continuous Professional Learning

Accessibility for Content Creators

Accessibility is an essential component of effective communication design and advertising. Our modules cover fundamental topics, including accessible typography, colour contrast, layout and structure, alternative text for images, accessible PDF creation, graphics for social media and inclusive design for both web and print materials. You will also explore the importance of inclusive language and learn techniques to enable you to reach a wider audience.

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Faculty of Media, Creative Arts, and Design, Continuous Professional Learning

Accessibility for Digital Designers

Our program explores accessibility principles, guidelines, and best practices tailored to designers working with online mediums. Facilitated by industry experts well-versed in accessibility and AODA (Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act) compliance, our program offers a dynamic learning experience that blends theoretical knowledge with practical application. Delve into topics such as accessible design patterns, assistive technologies, and WCAG compliance. Acquire the skills to ensure your designs not only cater to individuals with disabilities but also align with AODA web standards.

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Faculty of Media, Creative Arts, and Design, Continuous Professional Learning

Accessible Design 101: Essentials for Everyone

In this micro-credential, you'll dive into the essentials of creating accessible designs for everyone. Whether you work as a designer or in any other industry and are interested in making accessible content, this micro-credential is the perfect place to start. Learn the basics of the AODA (Accessibility for Ontario’s with Disabilities Act) and applying the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines across documents and multi-media experiences. From colour contrast and document structure to navigation and interactive elements, discover how small changes can make a big difference. Your journey to accessible design starts here.

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Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Continuous Professional Learning

Accessible Education Practices

This micro-credential course focuses on building awareness of accessibility and barriers to participation that exist in educational experiences. We will explore theories of disability and discuss how to identify and address access needs for diverse learner populations. Participants will work to develop their own accessibility toolkit, drawing on different accessibility frameworks and practices, including Universal Design for Learning and Inclusive Universal Design.

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Faculty of Media, Creative Arts, and Design, Continuous Professional Learning

Adobe Illustrator: Essential Skills

This micro-credential will introduce Adobe Illustrator, the industry-leading graphic design tool that allows the user to design anything from logos and icons to graphics and illustrations. Through hands-on exercises and creative assignments, students will learn to create vector-based artwork for print and digital distribution.

This micro-credential can be stacked to obtain the Graphic Design Certificate of Completion  

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Faculty of Media, Creative Arts, and Design, Continuous Professional Learning

Adobe InDesign: Essential Skills

This micro credential introduces the digital publishing tools in Adobe InDesign, empowering learners to create polished, professional designs. Through practical exercises, students will become familiar with how simple print pieces such as postcards, flyers, magazines and posters are designed and prepared for digital and print production.

This micro-credential can be stacked to obtain the Graphic Design Certificate of Completion  

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Faculty of Media, Creative Arts, and Design, Continuous Professional Learning

Adobe Photoshop: Essential Skills

This micro-credential will allow students to explore their creative potential and enhance their overall digital literacy. They will develop a working knowledge of Photoshop and all its composition tools and techniques for graphic design, multimedia design, and print production. The focus will be on using Photoshop to manipulate images and letterforms to create rich raster compositions that are optimized for digital spaces.

This micro-credential can be stacked to obtain the Graphic Design Certificate of Completion  

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Faculty of Social & Community Services, Continuous Professional Learning

Advanced Skills in Policing

This intensive micro-credential sharpens the core competencies that police officers require to excel at the sergeant level: clear and purposeful communication, mastering de-escalation, ethical decision-making in high-risk contexts and team leadership. Through a combination of lectures, case study discussions, guest speakers and experiential learning with supportive coaching, learners will practice key skills. Anti-racism and equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) principles are integrated throughout the micro-credential.

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Faculty of Media, Creative Arts, and Design, Continuous Professional Learning

Artificial Intelligence for Digital Marketing and Communications

Demystify AI and harness its potential for digital marketing, business and communications success! Whether you're a marketing professional, an aspiring entrepreneur or a business leader, this micro-credential is your gateway to staying competitive and ahead of the curve. Learners will gain a big-picture understanding of how AI works, as well as real-world techniques to boost productivity and automate select digital marketing and business functions.

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Innovative Learning

Assessments for Learning

This micro-credential focuses on assessments and evaluations in the teaching and learning cycle. Faculty will consider ways to design and deliver assessments so that they are part of the learning process instead of a product of learning.

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Faculty of Media, Creative Arts, and Design, Continuous Professional Learning

Captioning for Academic and Professional Purposes

This micro-credential prepares learners to ensure educational and professional content is accessible to all by developing the essential skills required to serve as accessibility-focused captioners and note-takers for clients with disabilities in academic or business settings. Guided by an accessibility expert, students will explore this essential industry and put their skills into practice through exercises and real-world simulations.

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Continuous Professional Learning

Coaching & Developing Others

Coaching and Developing Others Micro-credential is designed to give learners the coaching and performance management tools to promote individual performance and build high-performing teams. Through applied exercises in the live sessions, participants practice delegating, setting clear performance expectations and documenting results. Using the GROW model and coaching mindset, participants also refine their ability to facilitate coaching conversations that support development and result in an action plan. This course is designed for anyone moving into a management role or is currently in a supervisory position.

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Continuous Professional Learning

Curriculum Design and Development

Familiarizes faculty with the curriculum development process. Faculty will review ways to plan and create a well-designed and thoughtfully sequenced curriculum for a course or program.

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Continuous Professional Learning

Educational Technology and Accessibility

This micro-credential is an introduction to accessibility – actions taken so that people with disabilities can fully participate – as well as what is meaningful and relevant to all learners and uses these factors as criteria for selecting educational technology. The content is designed so that two of the four modules cover intra-accessibility, one about educational technology and one bringing these concepts together.

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Continuous Professional Learning

Effective Collaboration

The Effective Collaboration Micro-credential helps learners increase their self-awareness as related to collaboration and conflict management. Using profile assessments, active listening tools and the Thomas-Kilmann conflict-handling instrument, participants identify and apply their own collaborative strengths in order to optimize team dynamics in the workplace. Participants leave with the skills to help build effective alliances at all levels within an organization and how to leverage constructive feedback to work productively through conflict and disagreement.

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Continuous Professional Learning

Electric Vehicle Battery Fundamentals and Safety

Whether you are a retail automotive professional specializing in auto parts, sales or repairs, a comprehensive understanding of the fundamentals of electric vehicle (EV) batteries and knowledge of the related health and safety practices is essential. This micro-credential was developed in collaboration with sector manufacturers to increase learners’ understanding of EV battery technology and the procedures for the proper handling of EV batteries to ensure their safe and effective management.

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Continuous Professional Learning

Electric Vehicle Fundamentals

As the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) increases, understanding the components of EV technology and its impacts on industry and the environment becomes increasingly important. This micro-credential is designed for professionals in the automotive sector seeking to understand EV technology, stay current with consumer trends and navigate the dynamic world of EVs.

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Continuous Professional Learning

Equity and Anti-Oppressive Teaching in Post-Secondary Education

This micro-credential is intended to build capacity among Humber College staff in relation to equitable and anti-oppressive teaching. Participants will become familiar with the core tenets of equitable and anti-oppressive teaching including identifying one’s own positionality, distinguishing between equality and equity, and engaging in critical self-reflexivity. Participants will also explore four domains of teaching – content, pedagogy, access and climate – and assess their own teaching beliefs and practices in preparation for a concrete action plan they can implement into their own teaching contexts at Humber College.

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Faculty of Media, Creative Arts, and Design, Continuous Professional Learning

Esports Social Media Management

Social media management is an important component of the rapidly evolving esports landscape. Lead by a current industry expert, this micro-credential will teach the foundational skills needed to effectively manage an esports social media account, and provide students with the essential tools required to pursue a career in esports social media management. Learners will be able to demonstrate how each social media platform functions, identify target audiences and use brand voices to boost the reception of the brands they will manage in the esports industry.

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Continuous Professional Learning

Facilitating Learning

This micro-credential engages faculty to think about the strategies to create impactful and intentional learning experiences. Throughout the micro-credential, faculty will consider how the facilitation of content – whether in a classroom or other setting – can support learning and professional development.

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Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Continuous Professional Learning

Foundations of Inclusive Teaching

This micro-credential course provides an introduction to the foundations of inclusive teaching, starting with a fundamental understanding of learner variability and how social positioning impacts learner experiences of inclusion and exclusion. Learners will engage in self-reflection on their own social identities, lived experiences, and assumptions about education.

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Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Continuous Professional Learning

Holistic Education Practices

This micro-credential course focuses on creating learning experiences that understand the complex and intersecting identities of learners. The course focuses on different ways of knowing and how these can be reflected in the course design. We will also discuss mental-health considerations and the importance of a trauma-informed approach to teaching. Specific frameworks that will be explored include Trauma-Informed Pedagogy, Culturally Relevant Pedagogy and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy.

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Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Continuous Professional Learning

Inclusive Curriculum Design

This micro-credential course provides an introduction to curriculum design and an understanding of inclusion as a design consideration. We will start by reviewing curricular theories and re-examine the roles of the teacher and the student. Participants will then focus on the curriculum design process, including learning outcomes and assessment, and explore how each step can be made more inclusive.

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Faculty of Health Sciences & Wellness, Continuous Professional Learning

Phlebotomy for Health Care

This micro-credential is designed to assist the Licensed Health Care Professional (RN/RPN) and the Non-Health Care worker in the knowledge and skill development required to draw blood samples, via venipuncture, for laboratory testing. Concepts of blood chemistry and hematology will be introduced. Familiarization with equipment and opportunity to practice the advanced skills to care for patients is provided in a laboratory setting.

This micro-credential can be stacked to obtain the Medical Administration, Certificate of Completion  

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Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Continuous Professional Learning

Predictive Analytics with Python and AI

This micro-credential helps you learn essential skills like ChatGPT, GitHub, Visual Studio Code and Python basics. It covers topics such as statistics, data visualization with Matplotlib, and data preparation with Pandas. It is perfect for anyone looking to build a strong foundation in practical data analysis and coding with Python.

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Continuous Professional Learning

Professional Communication

The Professional Communication Micro-credential equips learners with a toolbox of effective digital communication strategies and practices that create efficiency and build trust in the workplace. Participants learn to be “conscious communicators” by understanding their audience, choosing the right channel for a message, writing with clarity, reading carefully, meeting with purpose, and making space for differences.

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Faculty of Media, Creative Arts, and Design, Continuous Professional Learning

Prompt Writing for AI: How to Talk to Robots!

Creating effective prompts directly influences the quality, relevance and accuracy of AI responses and is an essential future-focused skill for professionals in any industry. This micro-credential focuses on proven, effective prompting techniques with practical augmentation and implementation methods for AI tools. Participants will strategically leverage AI capabilities while maintaining their unique human perspective. Through hands-on experimentation and personalized projects, learners will discover the "jagged edge" between human and AI capabilities and critically evaluate AI-generated content.

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Continuous Professional Learning

Service Excellence

Service Excellence Micro-credential provides learners with the theory and practice to provide exceptional customer service in both virtual and in-person contexts. Participants understand the value of active listening and posing questions to best understand and address client needs. Using scenario-based learning, participants practice empathy-driven responses and cultivate key service behaviours that are necessary to ensure winning outcomes. This hands-on program teaches the techniques to build customer rapport and assess customer satisfaction.

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Faculty of Social & Community Services, Continuous Professional Learning

Sustainable Urban Farming

In this micro-credential, learners gain foundational knowledge related to sustainable urban farming practices, including both a theoretical understanding of the socio-economic elements related to food sovereignty and the applied learning of building and maintaining a small-scale sustainable urban farm (i.e., an indoor vertical garden). This micro-credential is comprised of seven online modules, delivered in a fully asynchronous format. A vertical garden kit is included in the fees and will be shipped, free of charge, to any Canadian address.

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Continuous Professional Learning

Teaching and Learning in Hyflex Environments

This micro-credential introduces faculty to the methods, practices and tools for adapting an existing in-person lesson plan for HyFlex teaching. Faculty will review strategies and methods to create a learning experience that engages learners in all three modalities and ensures an equivalent experience for all students.

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Faculty of Media, Creative Arts, and Design, Continuous Professional Learning

Typography: Essential Skills

This micro-credential will focus on introducing the important role of type communication design within print and web mediums. Students will evaluate the style and character of individual letterforms, through construction of words, lines and paragraphs. Using Adobe InDesign, students will put typographic theory in practice through creative page layout exercises.

This micro-credential can be stacked to obtain the Graphic Design Certificate of Completion  

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Faculty of Social & Community Services, Continuous Professional Learning

Understanding Investigative Genetic Genealogy

This micro-credential is for anyone who is curious about genetic genealogy and how DNA is used to help solve crimes. Using real case studies, learners gain a basic understanding of DNA and how genetic genealogy can, and cannot, be used in a criminal investigation. Issues such as privacy rights, national standards, and the positive social impact of solving homicide cases with this technology are discussed.

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