Micro-credentials

Faculty of Media & Creative Arts, 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. Industry experts will provide guidance on planning and implementing accessibility features throughout the design process.

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Faculty of Media & Creative Arts, Continuous Professional Learning

Accessibility for Digital Designers

Our program explores accessibility principles, guidelines, and best practices tailored to designers working specifically 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 assess and overcome common accessibility barriers, ensuring 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, 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 a series of practical hands-on exercises and creative assignments, students will learn to create vector-based artwork for print and digital distribution. They will learn the principles of composition, building colour palettes, creative typography and develop the skills required to produce and prepare digital vector-based files in a professional manner for high-end digital devices.

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

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Faculty of Media & Creative Arts, Continuous Professional Learning

Adobe InDesign: Essential Skills

Learn to create beautiful layouts, interactive documents and compelling visual narratives. 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, 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. It will also explore how Photoshop links to other programs in the Adobe Creative Suite and its role in the graphic design workflow.

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

Applying Investigative Genetic Genealogy

Delivered as a 3-day Training Summit for justice professionals, this groundbreaking microcredential covers the application of Investigative Genetic Genealogy (IGG) in a current, or historical, investigation. Modules address a range of topics and best practices, including lawfulness and privacy rights, genealogy and forensic science, pathology, investigative strategies, and the social impact of using IGG to solve criminal cases. Case studies are provided to showcase proper use of IGG and to demonstrate the diversity and complexity of decisions that investigators must navigate.

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Faculty of Media & Creative Arts, 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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Continuous Professional Learning

Business Case Basics

The Business Case Basics Micro-credential helps learners with the tools and skills to strategically analyze a proposed project or initiative and create an assessment of the costs, benefits, risks, and other considerations associated with the project. Participants learn the four steps of decision-making, understand how to use appropriate financial and operational metrics, and practice writing conclusions that follow from forecasting and risk assessment. Working through a practice case study, learners gain the confidence to put forth a thoughtful and persuasive business case.

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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

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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Faculty of Media & Creative Arts, 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. All content will focus specifically on the esports industry, showcasing brands, teams, and content creators that operate in the space. 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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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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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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Continuous Professional Learning

Project Planning

The Project Planning Micro-credential is designed to provide learners with the terms and tools used in formal project management practices along with an introduction to project management basics, project planning, task prioritization and applying general tools and techniques. Participants learn what project management is - and is not - and the highlights of how good planning works to manage complexity. This course is designed for anyone interested in, or impacted by, project work.

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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 Media & Creative Arts, 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. They will also explore the differences between print and web typography in regards to file types, measurement units, legibility and readability.

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

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