Basic Social Network Learning Certificate
Ray Jimenez, PhD, Author, 3-Minute e-Learning; Managing Director, Architect, www.TrainingPayback.com

REGISTER NOW! This highly interactive online learning certificate helps leaders, managers, trainers and learning specialists who are interested in implementing Social Networking as a means to increasing learning and performance.
Next start date: October 03, 2008

Kirkpatrick Four Level Evaluation
Certificate Program
Don Kirkpatrick, Author, Evaluating Training Programs: The Four Levels
Jim Kirkpatrick, Co-Author, Implementing the Four Levels

REGISTER NOW! Don Kirkpatrick’s four levels for evaluating training programs have been around more than 50 years. His model is the standard for evaluation around the world and the major reason seems to be that it works. Now’s your chance to learn from the masters themselves, Don and Jim Kirkpatrick.
Next start date: October 14, 2008

Crafting Instructional Strategies Certificate
Peter Honebein, Ph.D.,
President, Honebein Associates, Inc. | Customer Performance Group, author, Strategies for Effective Customer Education.

REGISTER NOW! Crafting effective and appealing instructional strategies for training course is a signature capability for training designers. In this online certificate program, you’ll learn how to combine the science of instructional strategies with your own creative talents to create innovative training solutions.
Next start date: October 16, 2008

Leading Effective Live Online Events
Certificate Program
Jonathan Finkelstein, CSTP, Facilitator,
Author, Learning in Real Time

REGISTER NOW! In this four-part live online workshop -- taking place over a three week period -- participants learn and practice effective, practical and creative strategies and techniques for the live online environment. Concrete approaches for synchronous facilitation abound, as do ideas for the design of real-time activities that take learning and collaborating online to a whole new level. The workshop is led by industry pioneer Jonathan Finkelstein, author of the best-selling book Learning in Real Time (Jossey-Bass).
Next start date: October 17, 2008

Training Manager Certificate Program
Jean Barbazette, Author, Managing the Training Function For Bottom Line Results

REGISTER NOW! With the right practices, any training program can excel performance, while delivering economic benefits. In this certificate program, you'll find out how by gaining in-depth focus and practical methods on managing the entire scope of your organization's training.
Next start date: October 24, 2008

Advanced E-Learning Design Certificate
Ray Jimenez, PhD, Author, 3-Minute e-Learning

REGISTER NOW! Learn to apply new research findings and best practices in developing e-learning programs that are flexible, reusable, rapid, and immersive.
Next start date: November 03, 2008

ROI Fundamentals Certificate Program
Patti Phillips, Ph.D., President/CEO, ROI Institute, Inc.
Co-author The Value of Learning & Show Me the Money
Jack Phillips, Ph.D., Chairman, ROI Institute, Inc.
Co-author The Value of Learning & Show Me the Money

REGISTER NOW! Interest in measuring the return on investment (ROI) in training and performance improvement programs continues to grow. Organizations in all sectors in countries around the world are implementing the ROI Methodology to ensure useful data are developed and reported to all stakeholders.
Next start date: November 03, 2008

Second Life Basic Design Certificate
Karl M. Kapp, Ed.D.
Professor of Instructional Technology, Bloomsburg University
Author, Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning: Tools and Techniques for Transferring Knowledge from the Boomers to the Gamers
Matt Monahan, Graduate Student , Bloomsburg University

REGISTER NOW! This certificate program is limited to 30 participants. Learn the basics of the 3D world of Second Life. Learn how to navigate, communicate with others and to create effective online instruction within the world. This certificate program provides insights into how the popular 3D world, Second Life, can be used to encourage collaboration, create engaging instruction and provide meaningful educational experiences.
Next start date: November 04, 2008

Creating E-Learning with Flash
Chris Florio, Director IDV Media/Passion Records; Professor Interactive Media, New England Institute of Art

REGISTER NOW! Learn to easily add the full range of Flash CS3 features to your e-learning program, including animation, graphics, images, sound, text, video, interactivity and learning components.
Next start date: November 06, 2008

PowerPoint for Web-Based Training
Eric R. Parks, Ph.D.,
Founder, ASK International,
Co-Founder TeraLearn.com, Inc.,
Author of the upcoming workbook "PowerPoint for Web-Based Training: How Organizations Can Deploy Fast, Affordable, Quality Online Learning."

REGISTER NOW! Learn to convert your PowerPoint files to Web-Based Training courses incorporating a wide range of effects, media, learning activities and design strategies.
Next start date: November 06, 2008

(Technology in Action Conference Online)
Manager of Learning and Learning Technologies
Bryan Chapman
Chief Learning Strategist, Chapman Alliance LLC

REGISTER NOW! Join on-site attendees at Training’s Technology in Action Conference in San José, California and learn enterprise-level strategies and best practices for deploying effective learning technologies. Hosted by e-learning evangelist and research guru Bryan Chapman, you’ll explore award-winning learning-in action-first hand. You’ll benchmark with other organizations, takeaway best-practice case studies, and learn about learning/performance management, rapid development, learning content management, simulations and games, informal learning (Web 2.0 and Social Networking) and more.
Next start date: November 12, 2008

Training Instructor Certificate:
Accelerated Learning in the Classroom
Sharon L. Bowman, M.A.,
President, Bowperson Publishing & Training, Inc., and
Author of The Ten-Minute Trainer, Preventing Death by Lecture, and Training from the BACK of the Room (coming in 2009).

REGISTER NOW! Take your classroom training skills to a new level as you become a practitioner of Accelerated Learning. By participating in this Accelerated Learning program, you will combine what you already know about effective training with the best of Accelerated Learning strategies to create learning experiences that involve learners from the moment they walk into the room until they leave.
Next start date: November 18, 2008

Managing and Communicating the Instructional Design Process: Practical Ways to Guarantee Your Learning Interventions with Confidence
Gary A. DePaul, Ph.D., CPT
Co-author, "Formative Evaluation: Getting it Right the First Time" in The Trainer’s Portable Mentor

REGISTER NOW! Most instructional designers can develop learning interventions, but how well do they manage the process? More than ever, managers and instructional designers are expected to deliver high-fidelity interventions on time and under budget. Yet, projects often fall short of these constraints due to ineffective communications and trial-and-error project management.

This certificate program provides practical tactics, templates, tools, and job aids to successfully manage your instructional design projects and clearly communicate your design strategies to sponsors and stakeholders.
Next start date: December 01, 2008

Talent Management & Succession Planning Certificate
Doris Sims, SPHR,
Author, Building Tomorrow’s Talent: A Practitioner’s Guide to Talent Management and Succession Planning,
Founder and President, Succession Builders, LLC.

REGISTER NOW! Talent Management and Succession Planning are "hot" topics today, but what does it all really mean from a practical standpoint? Discuss the concepts of talent identification and succession management, as well as the business implications, readiness factors, decision points, and metrics organizations should consider when implementing or updating these programs. You will obtain tools, advice, and practical solutions for your own succession planning and high potential strategies.
NEW start date: December 02, 2008

Strategic and Systems Thinking
Stephen Haines, Founder and CEO,
Haines Centre for Strategic Management
Author of numerous strategic management books including, Strategic and Systems Thinking: The Winning Formula

REGISTER NOW! This certificate program explores proven, practical and easy to learn steps essential to getting your organization or department moving forward towards common goals by developing shared visions, strategies and operational plans; ensuring successful implementation of desired major changes; and building and sustaining high performance over the long term.
NEW start date: December 15, 2008

Building Business Acumen for Trainers:
Skills to Empower the Learning Function
Ajay M. Pangarkar, CTDP,
Co-author Building Business Acumen for Trainers

REGISTER NOW! Increasingly, Learning professionals are expected to communicate in the language of business within their environment and with management. C-level decision-makers expect to see results from investment made in all parts of the business and learning and development is no exception. Learning must be accountable and communicated to management in terms they understand. This certificate is a practical and instructional approach to developing the business and communication skills of learning and training staff.
NEW start date: March 17, 2009

Reinventing Strategic Planning
Stephen Haines, Founder and CEO,
Haines Centre for Strategic Management
Author of numerous strategic management books including, Strategic and Systems Thinking: The Winning Formula

REGISTER NOW! This certificate program provides the steps and processes needed to establish a process that will help you and your entire organization to collectively develop that vision and develop a path to achieve it. You’ll learn how to quickly become a leader and business partner with senior management.
NEW start date: March 30, 2009