Adult Educator Seminar Series Certificate of Completion
Classroom, Fast Track and Online
This seminar series is for facilitators of adult learners who want to expand their knowledge of adult learning principles and develop their teaching and training skills in a meaningful way. This dynamic and interactive program will build your strategies and techniques for practical application with adult learners. An excellent professional development program to complement your career in education or training in the workplace.
Article about the Adult Educator Seminar Series
- Gain the skills to plan, administer and deliver education to adults in the workplace, nonprofit organizations and educational settings
- Enhance your skills as a volunteer, educator, trainer or coach
- Complement your HR, counselling or staff training knowledge
- Classroom version - complete the 9 required courses, and 2 optional courses (33 Hours)
- Online version - complete the 3 required courses (36 hours)
- Can be completed within 1 year up to a maximum of 3 years
- Accommodations available at The Hotel Residence at Mount Royal University. Call 403.440.6275 for reservations. More information
- Complete the program in just 1 week!
The Adult Educator Seminar Series is available in three online modules. Course materials are included online.
- The listed online course hours indicate the estimated time for students to review the online learning units. Your actual time spent completing assignments may vary.
- Intermediate skills in MS Word are strongly recommended In order to succeed in this program.
Required Courses - Online
Core Concepts of Adult Learning
Be introduced to the foundations of adult learning. Course includes: Principles of Adult Learning, Designing Learning Outcomes, Learning Styles, Designing a Living Course Syllabus.
Subject (for registration): Adult Educator Series
| Subject code: XAED 10029 | 12 Hours. Fee: $385 + GST | |
| CRN 90129 | Online | Sept. 14 - Oct. 13 |
Skills and Techniques for Adult Learning
Acquire skills and techniques to make your classes enjoyable and effective. Course includes: Effective Teaching Techniques, Classroom Presentation Skills, Assessing Teaching and Learning, Online Facilitation.
Subject (for registration): Adult Educator Series
| Subject code: XAED 10030 | 12 Hours. Fee: $385 + GST | Choose one of the CRNs below |
| CRN 50377 | Online | June 8 - July 5 |
| CRN 90064 | Online | Oct. 19 - Nov. 15 |
Refine and Enhance Instruction for Adult Learning
Polish your presentations for enhanced learning in your classroom. Course includes: Tools to Enhance Instruction and Presentation, Culturally Responsive Facilitation, Conflict Resolution in the Classroom, Generational Differences in Learning.
Subject (for registration): Adult Educator Series
| Subject code: XAED 10031 | 12 Hours. Fee: $385 + GST |
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| CRN 70298 | Online | July 13 - Aug. 9 | |
| CRN 90065 | Online | Nov. 23 - Dec. 20 |
Classroom delivery of courses unavailable until further notice due to COVID-19. Online courses are still available. Please see: Online Program.
Required Textbook
Textbook required per course: visit the Cougars Campus Store and search by Term and Department (XAED).
Principles of Adult Learning
Explore principles of adult learning that can be applied to planning and facilitating effective courses.
Subject (for registration): Adult Educator Series
| Subject code: XAED 10001 | 3 Hours. Fee: $99 + GST |
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Designing Learning Outcomes
Write clear and concise learning outcomes that guide instructional design and assessment. This process provides learners with measurable course expectations and targeted competencies.
Subject (for registration): Adult Educator Series
| Subject code: XAED 10002 | 3 Hours. Fee: $99 + GST |
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Classroom Presentation Skills
Explore effective verbal and non-verbal communication techniques for classroom delivery. Focus on vocal approach, use of space, style of presentation and body language.
Subject (for registration): Adult Educator Series
| Subject code: XAED 10003 | 3 Hours. Fee: $99 + GST |
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Learning Styles: Implications for Adult Educators
Improve your teaching effectiveness and your students' learning potential. Using the Kolb Learning Style Inventory, identify ways to enhance your teaching strategies.
Subject (for registration): Adult Educator Series
| Subject code: XAED 10004 | 3 Hours. Fee: $99 + GST |
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Effective Teaching Techniques
Expand your repertoire of teaching techniques to achieve instructional goals and meet the specialized needs of adult learners. Share your experiences in the classroom while discovering innovative ways to match learning outcomes with effective instructional techniques.
Subject (for registration): Adult Educator Series
| Subject code: XAED 10005 | 3 Hours. Fee: $99 + GST |
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A ssessing Teaching and Learning
Examine a variety of techniques for ongoing assessment of student learning in relation to your instructional effectiveness. Review assessment techniques that can be designed and implemented to improve the quality of the classroom experience.
Subject (for registration): Adult Educator Series
| Subject code: XAED 10006 | 3 Hours. Fee: $99 + GST |
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Tools to Enhance Instruction and Presentation
Review various media tools used to enhance instruction and presentations. Explore how best to match content with media tools to create the most meaningful learning experience.
Subject (for registration): Adult Educator Series
| Subject code: XAED 10007 | 3 Hours. Fee: $99 + GST |
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Conflict Resolution in the Classroom
Diversity of experience and perspective enriches the classroom, but at times these differences can create conflict. How can we manage conflict or even anger among adult learners without discouraging different points of view? Bring your experiences and worst fears for review and practise techniques for handling conflict effectively.
Subject (for registration): Adult Educator Series
| Subject code: XAED 10010 | 3 Hours. Fee: $99 + GST |
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Culturally Responsive Facilitation
Discover sensitive and practical strategies for working with culturally diverse adult learners to create safe and respectful learning environments. Using a motivational framework, explore values, learning strategies and structures necessary to establish inclusion, develop attitude, enhance meaning and engender competence for all adult learners.
Subject (for registration): Adult Educator Series
| Subject code: XAED 10016 | 3 Hours. Fee: $99 + GST |
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Classroom delivery of courses unavailable until further notice due to COVID-19. Online courses are still available. Please see: Online Program.
Choose 2 of the following optional courses.
Mind Mapping
Discover how to use Mind Maps, a simple graphic thinking and presentation tool with amazing power to improve how you organize and express your ideas. Apply Mind Mapping to textbook reading, lecture notes, oral presentations, test preparation, test taking and report writing.
Subject (for registration): Adult Educator Series
| Subject code: XAED 10014 | 3 Hours. Fee: $99 + GST | Not offered this semester. |
Designing a Living Course Syllabus
Design a course syllabus/outline to serve as a planning device to organize your course and to guide course work for you and your students. Use your course syllabus/outline as an interactive road map that outlines what should be taught, why, by whom to whom, and under what conditions.
Subject (for registration): Adult Educator Series
| Subject Code: XAED 10024 | 3 Hours. Fee: $99 + GST | Not offered this semester. |
Generational Differences in Learning
Each generation or cohort of individuals has a set of defining events - social, political, cultural - associated with their lives. The resulting experiences influence the way they see the world, including their approaches and attitudes toward learning. Explore these generational differences and the implications they hold for teaching and learning.
Subject (for registration): Adult Educator Series
| Subject code: XAED 10022 | 3 Hours. Fee: $99 + GST |
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Designing and Assessing Student Assignments
Take the guesswork out of designing and assessing a student's performance. Discover how to apply a process for designing and assessing assignments that link outcomes, learning activities, assessment and feedback. As well, design and apply assessment criteria (rubrics).
Subject (for registration): Adult Educator Series
| Subject Code: XAED 10025 | 3 Hours. Fee: $99 + GST | Not offered this semester. |
Storytelling
Explore how storytelling can motivate student learning. The background and history of storytelling are explained. Discuss how to choose and present stories to suit your teaching purposes.
Subject (for registration): Adult Educator Series
| Subject code: XAED 10015 | 3 Hours. Fee: $99 + GST | Not offered this semester. |
Online Facilitation
Explore and share various tips and tricks for facilitating online learning successfully. Examine the use of asynchronous and synchronous communication systems in education. Discuss how to utilize these systems and develop appropriate teaching strategies for the adult learner.
Basic computer skills required.
Subject (for registration): Adult Educator Series
| Subject code: XAED 10017 | 3 Hours. Fee: $99 + GST | Not offered this semester. |
Developing Fair Tests
Too often, instructors forget to link evaluation to the learning objectives initially established for the course. Look at ways to design valid tests or exams so that they fit with the types of learning outcomes you desire - cognitive, psychomotor or affective.
Subject (for registration): Adult Educator Series
| Subject code: XAED 10011 | 3 Hours. Fee: $99 + GST |
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Using Case Studies in the Classroom
Case studies can be valuable interactive teaching tools, helping your students to develop problem-solving skills. Lean the qualities of an effective case study, recognize common mistakes in writing case studies and design a case study that bridges the gap between theory and practice.
Subject (for registration): Adult Educator Series
| Subject code: XAED 10032 | 3 Hours. Fee: $99 + GST |
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Improve Your Voice
Acquire techniques to improve the quality of your voice. Develop projection and enhance voice tone through relaxation, breathing and voice exercises.
Subject (for registration): Adult Educator Series
| Subject code: XAED 10009 | 3 Hours. Fee: $99 + GST | Not offered this semester . |
Supporting Learners with Disabilities
As an instructor, you may feel unprepared to meet the learning needs of adults with disabilities. Through small and large group discussions and reflective exercises, explore instructional strategies that support learners with various types of disabilities and enhance learning for all your participants. Investigate options and resources available.
Subject (for registration): Adult Educator Series
| Subject code: XAED 10026 | 3 Hours. Fee: $99 + GST | Not offered this semester. |
Working with adult learners on a daily basis, I found the Adult Educator Seminar Series Certificate of Completion has helped me to communicate more effectively and determine practical strategies to allow mature students to be successful. This program has left me feeling confident in my ability to develop measurable learning outcomes and be creative in the process! Informative courses, fantastic instructors.
- Stephanie Jones
Contact us
For information about this program:
cehealth@mtroyal.ca
403.440.6867 or 1.888.392.3655
Mount Royal University, 4825 Mount Royal Gate SW, Calgary AB T3E 6K6
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