Online Professional Development Courses

Prepare for the PMI-ACPⓇ certification exam from the Project Management Institute (PMI). Topics provide an introduction to Agile, the different approaches to Agile, and review recommended reading.

Designed to provide you with the knowledge to be a successful project manager. Sessions include: Fundamentals, Scope & Change, Scheduling & Cost, HR, Risk Analysis, Quality Management and PM Review.

Make meetings efficient and meaningful with strategies that can be utilized immediately. Learn effective agenda importance and pre-meeting communication.

Designed to provide you with the foundation and skill set needed in the evolving world of social media tools and strategies so they can be immediately applied in the workplace.

Agronomy Essentials is a fully online 12-week comprehensive online crops and soils course designed to build your knowledge of basic agronomy principles and application.

Managing crop nutrients is one of the most important factors in producing a successful crop. Fertilizers are major production expenses, and mismanagement can lead to environmental consequences.

The application of information technology to crop production, known as precision agriculture, has already transformed many aspects of crop production and promises even more.

This course is designed to help commercial pesticide applicators prepare for Indiana's Category 2, Forest Pest Management certification test.

The curriculum covers the plant biology and agronomic aspects of the growth and uses of the hemp plant, the implications of historical and modern legal and social issues, and other applications.

Orders will be processed within three business days of when the order is placed. Please remember that shipping can take four to six weeks.

This course enables students to become more effective professionals by resolving cases (based on real situations) with working satisfactory outcomes.

You will study the fundamentals of pest management; safe use of insecticides; development, classification, and identification of bedbugs; and chemical and nonchemical measures useful in bedbug IPM.

Food Plant Pest Management is a specialized, in-depth training program for individuals responsible for managing pests in food processing and pharmaceutical plants and facilities.

The Introduction to Urban and Industrial IPM course is designed to help you manage insect, rodent and other pest problems in structural situations.

The Introduction to Urban and Industrial IPM course is designed to help you manage insect, rodent and other pest problems in structural situations.

This online mini-course is designed to educate pest control professionals on how to detect invasive borers using Purdue's SAFER (Search, Ask, Fix, Educate and Report) inspection practices.

This course is designed to train professional pest managers and public school personnel as they work together to develop and implement a safe and effective pest management program for the school.

This course covers many different wood-infesting pests and provides comprehensive coverage of arthropod and disease identification and pest prevention and control.

This course features the identification, biology and management of weeds, diseases, insects and vertebrate pests of warm and cool season turfgrass, and covers chemical use and safety.

This course is a specialized, in-depth training program for individuals responsible for performing wildlife damage management in a safe, responsible, effective and ethical manner.

Focus on the classification and function of nutrients, deficiency symptoms, digestive processes, characterization of feedstuffs and formulation of diets for domestic animals.

Recertification programs are at least two hours in length on fertilizer and/or pesticide-related topic(s). Each program will also include an approved regulatory topic.

For those involved in land use planning or water quality issues, this course teaches how to use the web-based tool, the Tipping Point Planner decision support system, in under two hours.

Agricultural site design topics such as designing your urban farm, community garden, or market farm. Also covers soil health principles, composting, organic production, water management, and more.

Topics such as crop planning, understanding plant growth and plant families for vegetable production, seeding and transplanting, pest management, season extension, food safety, and harvesting.

Enhance your skills on topics such as crafting your mission and vision, asset-based community development, setting SMART goals, team building, communicating your vision, and funding your work.

Enhance your skills on topics such as soil contamination risks, building raised beds on city soils, zoning, and land use agreements.

In-depth instruction for urban crop production from farm design through harvest techniques. Ideal for market farmers and gardeners, garden organizers, and other urban agriculture project leaders.

Purdue's online Certified Financial Planner program fulfills the educational requirements to sit for the CFP® certification examination and includes six courses that cover the knowledge and skills needed to complete the exam successfully.

Master business analysis techniques, Agile Scrum methodologies, SQL, and more. Learn about analysis planning and monitoring, build interactive dashboards and understand the competencies of a Business Analyst.

Learn digital marketing, brand management strategies, Search Engine Optimization, SEO. Execute PPC strategy, social media analytics, reputation management, brand management, influencer content marketing.

Learn how to think about research, from data collection to analysis, as a narrative process. Rooted in statistics, the course provides a path for advancing from reportable results to impactful stories.

Learn the concepts of data storytelling, why it matters, and how it can transform research into impactful narratives from which your audience learns, remembers important findings, and acts on them.

Learn how to create data stories that use ethical research and that protect basic human rights: autonomy, fairness, trust, beneficence, and nonmalevolence.

Learn key strategies to visualize results and enhance visual communication of data stories, followed by a deeper dive into how to go from analysis of results to a compelling story enhanced with visuals.

This program covers concepts borrowed from rhetoric, communication, narrative structure, data research, visualization techniques, and data ethics. Students will learn to communicate insights and move an audience to action.

Assess your learning from the Digital Media Analytics program with this practicum by reflecting on what you learned and applying the concepts taught in the previous six courses.

Learn how to transform the world of social media from words and actions into numbers by using the "tabular format" approach and how to compare, contrast, and relate variables to get at potential predictive models.

Learn the constraints, opportunities and limitations of using data from social media and learn more about the basic types of social media data relevant to professionals like you, their provenance, and complexity.

Learn about the various ways in which websites can be used to capture the buzz in social media when properly tagged and tracked.

Learn how to build effective research plans by evaluating social media research and understanding social media research methods.

Learn the different categories of social and digital data that an organization may access, including owned, paid, and earned media, with an emphasis on owned media and social media channels.

Learn advanced ways to extract and analyze data from social media. These methods take advantage of the automated means of transferring data most social media services offer.

Learn how to identify and use social media as a source of business intelligence and behavioral analytics, how to quantify human behavior, how to engage in simple social media data mining, and how to interpret the findings into data-driven recommendations for an organization.

This online professional development program by GERI contains 10 total units to be completed at your convenience.

This online course will aid teachers in designing an e-learning management plan. Specific tools and best practices will help in planning, facilitating and evaluating e-learning days.

Intro to the foundations of teaching English language learners for pre-service and in-service PK-12 teachers. Covers language, communicative competence, second language acquisition theories, and more.

Through this online professional learning opportunity, you will explore three learning modules related to career navigation. Learn about career clusters in agriculture and consumer and family sciences.

Grief and bereavement is such a unique experience and is unique to each individual. This course is designed to help those that work with children and parents help youth understand death and the morning process.

Topics Include: understanding youth suicide, recognizing warning signs, facilitating open conversations, connecting with resources and continuing education resources.

This online program offers industry-related content with fundamental knowledge of Additive Manufacturing. Additional focus is placed on design principles that are immediately applicable.

This online program offers industry-related content with fundamental knowledge of Additive Manufacturing. Additional focus is placed on design principles that are immediately applicable.

This online program offers industry-related content with fundamental knowledge of Additive Manufacturing. Additional focus is placed on design principles that are immediately applicable.

The Building Water Essentials course provides a baseline understanding of how building water systems are designed, how they operate and when problems arise, and how those problems can be resolved.

A "real world" overview of healthcare delivery in the U.S.; topics covered include the major medical product segments, regulatory framework, and financial considerations, including costs, health insurance, and reimbursement.

The program includes sensors for condition monitoring applications, wireless communication protocols, manufacturing technologies, machine learning approaches, and relevant application domains.

Learn how to use data analysis and modeling algorithms, such as clustering, regression, hypothesis testing, etc., to solve interesting engineering problems. Use Python to write these analyses.

Comprehend basic security concepts and secure design principles and be able to relate the security fundamentals with real-world software and hardware design practices.

This course helps designers embrace that security is a critical part to all stages of the design process. Cybersecurity will be explored with a systems focus covering topics on software and hardware.

Learn how security principles are integrated into operations once an application or cyber system is deployed. Discuss cyber threats and general frameworks for intrusions and defenses.

Equipped with an introductory understanding of Python and data science topics from Data Science I, Data Science II will expose learners to more advanced models, techniques, and other important big data topics.

The online Lean Principles course focuses on the 14 management philosophies practiced in Lean systems for achieving operational excellence.

This online certification focuses on Lean Six Sigma methodologies, tools and techniques and is an opportunity to master the subject matter by conducting a Black Belt-level improvement project.

The online Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certificate course equips you with the skills needed for leading Green Belt-level projects to reduce or eliminate waste and improve customer satisfaction.

The Lean Six Sigma (LSS) Yellow Belt course is part of a series of online certificate courses where students will develop an understanding of the fundamental concepts associated with LSS.

This offering is designed for project managers with at least three years of experience who want to deepen or refresh their knowledge in preparation for the PMP ExamⓇ.

This program covers all concepts of AI and Machine Learning, including Python, Natural Language Processing, Speech Recognition, and Deep Learning. Includes hands-on labs to bring concepts to life.

Program focuses on distributed processing using the Hadoop framework, large-scale data processing using Spark, data pipelines with Kafka, and working with big data on AWS and Azure Cloud infrastructure. It includes a comprehensive curriculum covering the concepts of big data and data engineering, and the basics of Apache Python; Amazon EMR, Kinesis, QuickSight and Sagemaker; and AWS and Azure cloud services.

This certificate provides you with fundamental knowledge and skills and a strong start on the path toward becoming a certified Project Management Professional through the Project Management Institute.

This refresher course is designed for previously certified Lean Six Sigma professionals who would like to brush up on their Green Belt-level knowledge and/or prepare for Purdue's Black Belt course.

Detailed introduction to the behavior and design of composite steel members with emphasis on composite beams, columns, and composite plate shear walls. The course introduces the fundamentals and more.

Detailed introduction to direct analysis method for design included as part of AISC Specification Chapter C. The course explains transition from the old length method to the new method for design.

A detailed introduction to the stability and design of steel members subjected to individual and combined force demands with emphasis on lateral torsional buckling, axial force-bending, and more.

Explore the nature of changes in healthcare, including the underlying shifts that drive our challenges. Understand what it takes for leaders to deal effectively with emerging problems.

This comprehensive, self-study course in central service and sterile processing is designed to prepare central service employees to succeed on the IAHCSMM examination and become CRCSTs.

This series of self-study lessons is offered by the IAHCSMM and Purdue University to help central service professionals and other health care professionals maintain certification.

Self-study lessons help you maintain your IAHCSMM certification by providing ongoing education to keep you up-to-date on the latest information in central service.

Learn in-depth methodology best used to manage high uncertainty projects where requirements are not well understood or rapidly evolving. Students will become versed in several agile approaches, including Scrum, Kanban, and Extreme programming (XP).

This program is designed to help train and share best practices with our industries' next generation of field supervisors.

Learn the basic concepts behind artificial intelligence and what steps your business can take to take advantage of this technology in the future.

Learn how to claim your bubble and identify multiple management/claiming bubble platforms, such as map platforms and review sites.

With these lessons, you will learn how to leverage online tools and services to grow your business. You will learn the steps to claim your online bubble, which include highlighting your business through a variety of platforms and optimizing your online listings. You will also learn how to create your own website, including setting up a website with the basic pages needed and how to use specific keywords to increase Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

Evaluate your email reach by understanding key indicators regarding email marketing, including conversion and ROI.

With these lessons, you will learn the basics of email marketing, including staying on the right side of the law (CAN-SPAM ACT), formatting emails to be mobile-friendly, avoiding your emails being marked as spam, and understanding analytics such as click-through rates and open rates.

Learn how to reach customers' inboxes by learning the basics of email marketing, key terms and essentials.

Learn how to create an online presence by learning key concepts, formats and content considerations by understanding what goes into planning and designing a website.

Evaluate your reach and paid marketing by learning analytics key terms, Facebook Insights and ad campaigns.

With these lessons, you will learn the importance of your online real estate and how to use it to increase interactions with your customers by having a strategy, consistently creating content, staying on top of popular social media trends, and testing the effectiveness of your efforts.

Find out how to identify the platform or platforms most suitable for your business by learning what social media is, what is available and how it differs from other digital platforms.

Learn a six-step social media planning tool, benefits of social media and best practices regarding social media content.

In-depth online certificate on how to get a business online, from creating an online presence through a website to evaluating email reach by calculating conversions and return on investment.

The online Lean Principles course focuses on the 14 management philosophies practiced in Lean systems for achieving operational excellence.

This online certification focuses on Lean Six Sigma methodologies, tools and techniques and is an opportunity to master the subject matter by conducting a Black Belt-level improvement project.

The online Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certificate course equips you with the skills needed for leading Green Belt-level projects to reduce or eliminate waste and improve customer satisfaction.

An introduction to the medical device field, with emphasis on the ways in which chemical engineering processes provide the foundation for many device-related therapies. The course involves the application of several fundamental chemical engineering principles, including those related to mass transfer, separations, and fluid flow, to devices used for extracorporeal therapies and other treatments.

This offering is designed for project managers with at least three years of experience who want to deepen or refresh their knowledge in preparation for the PMP ExamⓇ.

In this course, you'll learn about how the Plan-Do-Check-Act method of problem solving, the A3 problem solving tool, and the root-cause analysis technique form a foundation for effective problem solving.

This certificate provides you with fundamental knowledge and skills and a strong start on the path toward becoming a certified Project Management Professional through the Project Management Institute.

This refresher course is designed for previously certified Lean Six Sigma professionals who would like to brush up on their Green Belt-level knowledge and/or prepare for Purdue's Black Belt course.

Learn about the historic appellations where the classic sparkling wine is produced along with some of the world's greatest white and red wines, including the unique winemaking style (carbonic maceration) for a special French winegrowing region, the Beaujolais in southern Burgundy.

Join the wine professor in exploring Bordeaux, perhaps the largest, most famous and most intimidating of all wine regions, as well as one of Europe's most distinguished cool-climate winegrowing areas (and France's northernmost winegrowing outpost), the Alsace.

Europe's northernmost major winegrowing region, planted to vines since Roman times. Drift down the Rhine and up the Mosel rivers to explore Riesling's original home and explore the grape varieties, wine styles and other features of Germany's wine-producing areas.

Home to Purdue and a thriving local wine industry. Visit the state where the very first vineyards in the United States were planted and learn about Indiana's main growing areas, grape varieties and wine styles.

Italy has been producing wine for 3,000 years. Travel to the foothills of the Alps, to the Piedmont, to Tuscany and more, and learn about some of Italia's "vini famosi" along the way — and why Italy is such an ideal place to make wine.

Visit the country with the most vineyards, Spain, to the home of Port wine, Portugal. Explore the vast Iberian Peninsula and some its most outstanding wine regions, including the Douro Valley in Portugal's northern provinces, exclusive producer of authentic Port.

Learn about the role ocean current plays for Chilean viticulture, the elevation differences in Argentina, the differences in the grape harvest in the Southern Hemisphere and the grape varieties unique to South America.

Take a trip to the Southern Hemisphere to two of the modern wine world's most influential regions. Discover the impact of climate change on global viticulture and find out what together makes these two the newest and most successful wine-producing countries in the "New World."

Take a tour of the U.S. West Coast, where many great American wines are crafted. From the Central Valley to Napa and from the Willamette Valley to Walla-Walla, get a picture of why and how this region produces such a great variety of wines and come away with suggestions for tasting many of them.

Learn the history of winegrowing, global wine production techniques and styles, and the economic and political impact of the wine industry as part of modern agriculture.

Explore the nature of changes in healthcare, including the underlying shifts that drive our challenges. Understand what it takes for leaders to deal effectively with emerging problems.

This six-module e-learning program focuses on motivational interviewing, which is a counseling method that helps people find the internal motivation they need to change their behavior.

This offering provides a concise introduction to basic Spanish terms and phrases encountered in a variety of pharmacy settings.

Two lean modules have been developed to provide clinicians with an improved understanding of lean principles and awareness of lean methodologies, concepts and improvement tools.

This program covers a variety of content that is pertinent and relevant to the daily tasks of a nuclear pharmacy practitioner.

This program covers a variety of content that is pertinent and relevant to the daily tasks of a nutrition support pharmacy practitioner.

This program covers a variety of content that is pertinent and relevant to the daily tasks of a nutrition support pharmacy practitioner.

Get a detailed look at the specific steps needed to implement and manage a blockchain initiative, and learn how to put blockchain best practices into action and become an agent of change.

Rooted in real cases, this course offers an opportunity to examine the details of real public and private blockchains initiatives and empowers you to participate in industry-based events and situations.

Explore blockchain topics and become equipped with a language and fluency that enables you to participate in topical conversations intelligently.

Ideal for managers and IT professionals, Building a Red Team Capability teaches strategies to test your organization's ability to detect cyber attacks, ways to determine its defensive gaps and how to effectively address them.

This program is designed to help train and share best practices with our industries' next generation of field supervisors.

This comprehensive online bootcamp teaches information security professionals how to find vulnerabilities in information systems and prepares them for the Certified Ethical Hacker certification exam.

Cloud Security is a targeted course in safeguarding strategies for the security of cloud-based systems. You'll be introduced to the principal technologies involved in cloud-based systems and outline the key roles and responsibilities of cloud experts in an organization.

This comprehensive online bootcamp provides information technology professionals the core knowledge required for any cybersecurity role, along with preparing those professionals for the CompTIA Security+ certification exam.

Perfect for managers and IT professionals who want to protect their organization from potential legal and financial losses, Cyber Threat Intelligence trains professionals to understand and act upon the threats.

This course focuses on key offensive skills and consists of 20-25 study hours per week for 15 weeks. Students will work through 11 real-life tasks.

Build on the defensive skills and experience students gained in Cyber Security: Immediate Immersion. Impart a strong foundation of defensive cyber security skills in 11 weeks of study.

Businesses experience literally thousands of cyber-attacks per day. Impart initial cyber security skills in 3 intense weeks of study to help determine if careers in cyber security are right for them.

An overview of cybersecurity threats along with the fundamentals of a robust cybersecurity program, teaching both nontechnical and technical learners how to align a security program with business objectives.

Cybersecurity Cases teaches you to take an active role in setting and participating in cybersecurity strategy within your organizations through deep engagement with real-world case studies.

Cybersecurity Foundations and Frameworks teaches you to assess where your organization sits amid the cyber threat landscape and to identify risks, threats and vulnerabilities in your industry.

A practical, managerial-level course on Cybersecurity Risks and Industry teaches you to address gaps within your company in terms of the people, processes and technologies responsible for cyberattacks.

Learn how security principles are integrated into operations once an application or cyber system is deployed. Discuss cyber threats and general frameworks for intrusions and defenses.

This course introduces the fundamentals of digital forensics and cyber crime scene analysis, including relevant laws and regulations, international standards, and methods for conducting investigations.

The online Lean Principles course focuses on the 14 management philosophies practiced in Lean systems for achieving operational excellence.

In this course, you'll learn how lean manufacturing concepts can be used to improve safety. You'll also learn the fundamentals of building a culture of safety commitment as opposed to compliance.

This online certification focuses on Lean Six Sigma methodologies, tools and techniques and is an opportunity to master the subject matter by conducting a Black Belt-level improvement project.

The online Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certificate course equips you with the skills needed for leading Green Belt-level projects to reduce or eliminate waste and improve customer satisfaction.

Model-based definition (MBD) is an emerging industry technique that uses 3D CAD models with annotations to communicate information between people and equipment instead of using drawings.

Model-based definition (MBD) is an emerging industry technique that uses 3D CAD models with annotations to communicate information between people and equipment instead of using drawings.

Model-based definition (MBD) is an emerging industry technique that uses 3D CAD models with annotations to communicate information between people and equipment instead of using drawings.

Model-based definition (MBD) is an emerging industry technique that uses 3D CAD models with annotations to communicate information between people and equipment instead of using drawings.

Network Traffic Analysis helps you identify attackers who blend in with legitimate network traffic, and provides tactical experience with network protocols, architecture, intrusion detection, and more.

This offering is designed for project managers with at least three years of experience who want to deepen or refresh their knowledge in preparation for the PMP ExamⓇ.

This program covers all concepts of AI and Machine Learning, including Python, Natural Language Processing, Speech Recognition, and Deep Learning. Includes hands-on labs to bring concepts to life.

Exposure to key technologies and skills used in data analytics and data science, including statistics, Python, R, and data visualization tools. Utilize regression models and classification techniques.

Gain a broad exposure to key concepts and tools from Python, R to Machine Learning and more. Hands-on labs and project work bring concepts to life with trainers and teaching assistants to guide you.

The goal of this course is for students to understand the methodologies and application of virtual 3D CAD product design in functioning PLM environments.

Understand the methodologies and application of PLM in areas of the enterprise other than CAD and PDM. This course emphasizes PLM topics that affect or interface with the rest of an organization.

This course extends virtual product design concepts to a concurrent engineering environment and incorporates PDM databases in the life cycle of products.

This offering includes competency assessments for the PLM and MBD Certificate programs.

This certificate provides you with fundamental knowledge and skills and a strong start on the path toward becoming a certified Project Management Professional through the Project Management Institute.

This refresher course is designed for previously certified Lean Six Sigma professionals who would like to brush up on their Green Belt-level knowledge and/or prepare for Purdue's Black Belt course.

This course will introduce learners to the psychological principles of social engineering, some tools commonly used in social engineering attacks, and how to prevent and mitigate these attacks.

The TDP certificate program provides an overview of TDP for an understanding of how it is beneficial to the manufacturing environment of their organization along with the use of PLM tools and methods.

Concentrates on fundamentals of threat detection in an enterprise, enabling students to examine types of attacks and learn techniques to find, investigate and counteract them.

Learn about the functions of the cell; blood and immunity; the nervous system, reflexes and special senses; the functions of the nerve and muscle; the cardiovascular system and the digestive system.

You will complete a combination of distance learning, life experiences, and reflections to build your skill sets. Certificates and Continuing Education credit are available upon completion.