Offered by Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, Canada, Online Teaching and Learning Graduate Certificate is a postgraduate certificate in Education & Teaching programme. The programme is delivered fully online. Teaching is in English.
At a glance
Degree:Postgraduate Certificate
Field:Education & Teaching
Delivery: Online
Language: English
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The Graduate Certificate in Online Teaching and Learning is a 15-credit, fully online graduate certificate offered through TRU's Open Learning division. Students complete five required three-credit courses: Education Technology for Learning, Learning Design, Designing Multimedia for Curriculum, Online Teaching and Learning, and Contemporary Issues in Technology-Enhanced Learning. TRU recommends completing the program over three terms (fall, winter, and summer), although students may follow a different sequence with advisor approval. Admission requires a Bachelor of Education, a bachelor's degree combined with teaching qualifications or experience, or director permission, and students must maintain a minimum 3.00 GPA throughout; a single failing grade, or two or more grades of B- or lower, can result in dismissal from the program. The certificate suits educators and other professionals who want focused, graduate-level training in designing and delivering technology-enhanced and online curriculum, without committing to a full master's-level program, and who need a flexible, fully online format compatible with continuing to work.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Applicants must hold a Bachelor of Education degree, or a baccalaureate degree in another discipline together with teaching qualifications or experience, or receive approval from the academic director or designate. The program page states a GPA of 3.00 or higher as the standard students must maintain to remain enrolled through the certificate's 15 credits (a minimum of 6 of which must be completed at TRU), rather than a stated minimum admission GPA. No English or French language proficiency test score is published on the page. One failing grade may result in dismissal, and a B- or lower in two or more courses requires withdrawal unless the program coordinator approves an exception. The page does not state specific intake months or application deadlines for this certificate.
Application Details
Application Deadline:Domestic applicants (Canadian citizens and permanent residents) apply directly to TRU: for the September (Fall) intake the deadline is 1 May, for January (Winter) it is 1 September, and for the May (Summer) intake it is 1 January; applications for most programs open 1 October, and a deadline falling on a weekend or statutory holiday moves to the next working day. International applicants follow the same intake structure with deadlines of 1 May (September), 1 October (January) and 1 February (May); TRU still reviews later applications where space remains, though high-volume programs can close early, so admission runs on a rolling basis around these published cut-offs for the 2027 entry cycle. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
