Advanced Studies in Personalized Learning Certificate

The Advanced Studies in Personalized Learning Certificate prepares exemplary learning specialists who embrace personalized learning as transformative practice, resulting in increased student agency and deeper learning. The Advanced Studies in Personalized Learning Certificate is a 15-credit program composed of 5 three-credit graduate education courses.

Participants will complete the program within their cohort. Each Learning Community is co-facilitated by two instructors who follow the cohort through the entirety of the program. Each course includes hybrid elements to supplement face-to-face and collaborative time.

Program Goals

Through a process of exploration, reflection, action research, and communities of practice, participants will:

1. Develop a comprehensive knowledge of the underlying research to analyze models, practices and initiatives that align with the key attributes of personalized learning
2. Serve as a change agent
3. Enable all learners to reach their full potential
4. Nurture conditions that support student agency
5. Advocate for learners and learning
6. Ensure all learners experience equity through opportunity, access, and a sense of belonging
7. Inspire learning through a constructivist perspective
8. Facilitate learning in multiple modalities
9. Collaborate with professional integrity
10. Use full range of digital learning tools to support engagement and achievement
11. Use data to support learning and improvement