Graduate Certificate in Learning Analytics at University of North Dakota

Programme overview

Develop skills to see patterns in educational data showing which educational practices work best and how to identify at-risk students. Big data and data analytics emerged quickly in the past decade. It’s become the new frontier for data-driven decisions in education. The online Learning Analytics program involves the collection, management, analysis and reporting of meaningful patterns in data.

Department: Department of Education, Health & Behavior Studies | Duration: 1 year (12 credit hours) | Study mode: online | Intake: Fall (Aug. 1), Spring (Dec. 1), Summer (May 1) | Location: Grand Forks, ND, United States

What you will study

The requirements on this page are pulled from UND’s academic catalog and may not reflect future terms. Updates are published annually in April. A graduate certificate is a short series of graduate-level college courses that offer specialized training in a specific industry. Required courses include EFR 513 Large Dataset Management and Analysis; EFR 515 Statistics I (prerequisite for EFR 513 ); EFR 530 Learning Analytics; EFR 535 Data Analytics and Visualization with R.

Career pathways

Roles include Data Scientist, Educational Data Analyst / Scientist, eLearning Officer, Instructional Designer, Interface and Multimedia Designer, Learning Analytics Specialist, Learning Management Systems Analyst, Training Coordinator.

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Application information

Tuition is charged per credit, so the total depends on the modules you register for each year. Current fees are listed in the official fee schedule.

Terms run Fall (August-December), Spring (January-May) and Summer (May-August).

Apply through the official page: https://und.edu/admissions/graduate/apply.html

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