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Adult Learning

Gain an understanding of essential management skills.

These adult learning courses cover a wide range of essential skills, including mental skills, physical skills, social learning, and mLearning essentials. Course are designed to help you become a more effective learner, both personally and professionally.

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Micro-credentials are short, concentrated groups of courses that are really flexible. You can take as many as you like, in any order, and because they are asynchronous you can take them at any time it suits you. You will be awarded a badge for each individual course, once you have completed all four courses you will gain your micro-credential.

The cost for each individual course listed below is $60. For more Information email: training@portagecollege.ca or call 780-623-5631 or toll-free at 1-888-745-0719.

Course Listing

Course ID: 

Name: Adult Learning: Mental Skills

Course Outcomes:

  • Describe Bloom’s Taxonomy.
  • Explain the cognitive domain.
  • Explore the two cognitive domains.
  • Explain types of knowledge.
  • Identify training in the cognitive domain.

Hours: 6

Credits: N/A

Delivery: Asynchronous Online Micro-credential

Cost: $60

Micro-credential Badge: Upon completion of this course you will be awarded a Portage College Micro-credential badge.

Timelines: End of the academic year, June 30th

Register for this course: training@portagecollege.ca or call 780-623-5631 or toll-free at 1-888-745-0719.

Course ID:

Name: Adult Learning: Physical Skills

Course Outcomes:

  • Describe Bloom’s Taxonomy.
  • Explain the psychomotor domain.
  • Explore the different psychomotor taxonomies.
  • Explain ways to implement training in the psychomotor domain.
  • Identify psychomotor activities.

Hours: 6

Credits: N/A

Delivery: Asynchronous Online Micro-credential

Cost: $60

Micro-credential Badge: Upon completion of this course you will be awarded a Portage College Micro-credential badge.

Timelines: End of the academic year, June 30th

Register for this course: training@portagecollege.ca or call 780-623-5631 or toll-free at 1-888-745-0719.

Course ID:

Name: Social Learning

Course Outcomes:

  • Define and use social learning.
  • Identify social learning tools.
  • Manipulate group dynamics and culture.
  • Craft and lead role-play scenarios.
  • Practice being a role model.
  • Describe modelling and observation.

Hours: 6

Credits: N/A

Delivery: Asynchronous Online Micro-credential

Cost: $60

Micro-credential Badge: Upon completion of this course you will be awarded a Portage College Micro-credential badge.

Timelines: End of the academic year, June 30th

Register for this course: training@portagecollege.ca or call 780-623-5631 or toll-free at 1-888-745-0719.

Course ID: 

Name: mLearning Essentials

Course Outcomes:

  • Define mLearning.
  • Recognize different methods of mLearning.
  • Explain the benefits/challenges of using mLearning.
  • Train other employees regarding mLearning.
  • Form an mLearning plan.

Hours: 6

Credits: N/A

Delivery: Asynchronous Online Micro-credential

Cost: $60

Micro-credential Badge: Upon completion of this course you will be awarded a Portage College Micro-credential badge.

Timelines: End of the academic year, June 30th

Register for this course: training@portagecollege.ca or call 780-623-5631 or toll-free at 1-888-745-0719.

We acknowledge that Portage College’s service region is on the traditional lands of First Nation Peoples, the owners of Treaty 6, 8 and 10, which are also homelands to the Métis people. We honour the history and culture of all people who first lived and gathered in these lands.
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