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LERN Seminars

The following courses are offered only to students who are enrolled in the Collaborative LERN/USD Master of Arts in Educational Administration degree program.

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LERN Seminars:
Seminar: Program Management Institute - Kennesaw State University

Course: AHED 790: Program Management Institute
Instructor: Fred Bayley
Credit Hours: 4
Course Dates: May 6 - June 1, 2013

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Registration Deadline: May 7, 2013

Course Description:

Train to analyze data to make the best decisions. Learn key financial formulas as well as design a winning brochure. You will learn how to increase registrations and start successful new programs. This training ends with the Certified Program Planner exam and eventual certification upon passing the exam.

Seminar: Program Management Institute

Course: AHED 790: Program Management Institute
Instructor: Fred Bayley
Credit Hours: 4
Course Dates: April 8 - 30, 2013

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Registration Deadline: April 8, 2013

Course Description:

After attending the Program Management Institute, you will be able to analyze data to make the best decisions. Learn key financial formulas as well as design a winning brochure. You will learn how to increase registrations and start successful new programs. This training ends with the Certified Program Planner exam and eventual certification upon passing the exam.

Seminar: CE & Credit Programming Institute

Course: EDAD 792: CE & Credit Programming Institute
Instructor: Julie Coates
Credit Hours: 3

Course Description:

After attending the CE & Credit Programming Institute, you will learn that the majority of workers do not have a college degree or credentials, yet by 2018, 63% of all jobs will require post-secondary education. The demand for workers with college educations will outpace supply by 300,000 per year by 2018. The pressing need to provide more and better opportunities for students to earn academic credentials is creating a plethora of opportunities for continuing education units, including off-campus, online-hybrid, accelerated, weekend, summer, prior learning, articulated credit and partnerships for credit and degree programs.

Seminar: Advanced Social Media & Mobile Marketing Institute

Course: ELED/SEED 492/592: Advanced Social Media & Mobile Marketing Institute
Instructor: Suzanne Kart
Credit Hours: 3

Course Description:

After attending the Advanced Social Media & Mobile Marketing Institute, you will learn that advanced social media and mobile marketing is an exciting and growing way to communicate, market and serve your customers and clients. Learn how social networks and mobile marketing are used to develop a two-way communication and marketing strategy for your organization. Then find out what you can be doing, what you should be doing, and take back a plan to integrate social networks and mobiles into your communication and marketing.

Seminar: Certified Program Planner (CPP)

Course: AHED 791: Certified Program Planner
Instructor: Fred Bayley
Credit Hours: 4
Location: Online
Dates:

Course Description:

After attending the Certified Program Planner Institute, you will have the comprehensive professional education and training necessary for any professional engaged in a lifelong learning program.  The field of lifelong learning programming has changed significantly in the last few years.  With increasing competition and heightened expectations for financial performance, comprehensive training is required to perform productively.  LERN also has a special tract for Contract Training CPP.

Seminar: Advanced Programming Institute

Course: AHED 790: Advanced Program Management Institute
Instructors: William A. Draves and Julie Coates
Credit Hours: 3
Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL and Online
Dates: April 8 - 30, 2013

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Registration Deadline: April 9, 2013

Course Description:

In this intensive, advanced Institute, we will show you the best strategies, proven techniques, and step-by-step how-to procedures for developing successful new programs. After attending, you will have the information necessary to increase the success rate of your new programs. The result is that you will have more successful new programs and you will reduce wasted staff time.  

Seminar: Certified Faculty Developer

Course: AHED 790: Certified Faculty Developer
Instructor: William Draves
Credit Hours: 3
Location: Online
Dates:

Course Description:

After attending the Certified Faculty Developer Institute, you will be able to train your faculty to engage students in leading activities in the online learning environment. Discover the four stages of the Phases of Engagement Model developed by your instructor. After attending this training, you will be able to train faculty in a step-by-step process to design engagement activities. Give your teachers the knowledge to write performance objectives, choose appropriate assessments, and measure the effectiveness of each assessment. Types of Assessment that can be used to formatively and summatively assess learning in a variety to contexts will be discussed, with an emphasis on online assessment.

Seminar: Operations & Staffing Institute

Course: AHED 790: Operations & Staffing Institute
Instructor: Greg Marsello
Credit Hours: 3
Location:  Fort Lauderdale, FL and Online
Dates:  April 8 - 30, 2013

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Registration Dealine:  April 9, 2013

Course Description:

Staffing structure and efficient operations are key to your whole program's success. You will acquire information not available anywhere else, as well as best practice strategies being used by industry leaders. Acquire benchmarks for the 15 processes that make for a lean and productive program, clear direction on how to redesign your staffing structure,and staffing job descriptions, plus much more. Take home performance tools and strategies that will impact your program immediately.

Seminar: Executive Leadership Institute

Course: AHED 790: Executive Leadership
Instructor: Dr. Bill Draves
Credit Hours: 3

Course Description:

After attending the Executive Leadership Institute, you will have the materials with which to conduct an internal self-assessment of your continuing education unit based on national standards and quality guidelines; be able to present to your central administration the results of your internal self-assessment based on national benchmarks, ratios and trends in continuing education; have a training package with which to further the professional development and training of your staff, and take away the quality benchmarks with which to measure your continuing education unit's success.

Seminar: eMarketing Institute

Course: AHED 790: eMarketing Institute - LERN
Instructor: Suzanne Kart
Credit Hours: 3
Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL and Online
Dates: April 8 - 30, 2013

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Registration Deadline: April 9, 2013

Course Description:

This is the most comprehensive and intensive professional development available on the subject of eMarketing specific to life long learning and continuing education programs. You will be able to compare your eMarketing against the successful benchmarks, discover gaps in your eMarketing, and take home improvements to boost your eMarketing success.  

Seminar: Marketing Institute

Course: AHED 790: Marketing Institute - LERN
Instructor: Suzanne Kart
Credit Hours: 3
Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL and Online
Dates:  April 8 - April 30, 2013

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Registration Deadline: April 9, 2013

Course Description:

The Marketing Institute is relevant for a variety of programming areas, including continuing education, seminars and conferences, community education, recreation, and continuing professional education. Lifelong learning programs are being called upon to increase attendance, improve financial self-sufficiency and be fiscally accountable.Changes in the marketing environment mean you must develop new strategies anduse new techniques to attract and retain participants.

Seminar: Contract Training Institute

Course: AHED 790: Contract Training Institute
Instructor: Julia King-Tamang 
Credit Hours: 3
Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL and Online
Dates: April 8 - 30, 2013

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Registration Deadline: April 9, 2013

Course Description:

Contract training is a top growth area. Most life long learning programs sell contracts, but many are finding that their efforts conflict with other responsibilities and that expectations of clients are high. You need to find out how to develop clients, utilize a salesperson, build a product base, and other key issues that only LERN CTI provides.

Seminar: Generational Marketing Institute

Course: AHED 790: Generational Marketing Institute
Instructor: Julie Coates
Credit Hours: 3
Location:
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Course Description:

After attending the Generational Marketing Institute, you will have the knowledge skills to be able to: understand the implications for copy writing and brochure production of communicating with different generations; develop more effective web site design for your primary market segments; distribute your brochures targeted to the specific generation you are trying to reach, and market more effectively to different generations. 


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