ONLINE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COURSE GUIDE
Summer 2025
University of Houston
ONLINE NON-CREDIT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
The University of Houston’s Online and Special Programs partnership with Ed2Go provides non-credit online skill building and career training courses. Courses are taught by highly qualified instructors and provide discussion opportunities for you and your fellow classmates. Instructor-led and self-paced course options available. Choose from hundreds of topics to find an engaging course that’s right for you. All courses are offered 100% online.
PROGRAM OPTIONS
Skill Building Programs
Enroll in a wide range of highly interactive courses to learn a new hobby or enhance your skill level. Earn a certificate of completion upon successful completion of the program.
Career Training Programs
Learn new skills and prepare for industryrecognized certifications. Gain an immersive experience in the field of study. Earn a certificate of completion upon successfully completing the final course exam.
Course Bundles
Register for multiple courses within a value suite and receive a discount lower than the cost of registering for the same courses individually.
COURSE FORMAT OPTIONS
Instructor-led Courses
• Fixed monthly start dates
• 6 weeks of course access
• Asynchronous delivery
• Peer to peer and peer to instructor discussion
• 2 lessons released weekly
Self-paced Courses
• Start anytime
• Minimum 3 month course access
• All lessons available upon enrollment
COURSE CATEGORIES
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GETTING STARTED
Popular Careers
Business Management & Operations
Get started in a business role with our popular courses in Certified Six Sigma Green Belt, Freight Broker/AgentTraining, and many more course options to choose from.
Healthcare
Education & Human Services
Enhance your skills or get started with our courses in Creating Classroom Centers, Singapore Math Strategies, or Guided Reading and Writing. Many course options to choose from.
Get started in healthcare with courses for becoming a Clinical Dental Assistant, Health Unit Coordinator, or their many other course options to choose from.
BUSINESS MANAGEMENT & OPERATIONS
Career Training Courses
Start the career training course at any time. Courses can be completed over a 6-12 month period and are affordably priced. Instructors/mentors are actively involved in the online learning experience. Benefits of completing a career training course includes learning in-demand job skills and gaining access to new course material weekly.
Administrative Professional
This course provides the information you'll need to know to sit for the Certified Administrative Professional (CAP) exam offered by the IAAP.
Business Coach
Learnhowtobecomea successfulbusiness coach while learning the fundamentals of coaching, including how to create winning strategies and how to address professional challenges. Students willbeable toserveentrepreneurs,business owners, and other professionals using timetested coachingmethods.
Career Counselor
The Career Counselor course will helpyouassistothersintheir careerjourney.Learnthestagesof careerdevelopment,the fundamentalsofcareerplanning, andhowtoworkwithdiverse audiencestobeabletohelpjob seekersnavigatetheircareer changewithmeaningfulresults.
Freight Broker/Agent Training
Learn the skills you need to be a successful freight broker or a freight agent in this fast-growing industry. This Online freight broker training course provides you with detailed information about the freight broker sector of the transportation industry and about the brokerage process from start to finish.
Certified Six Sigma Green Belt
Prepare for Six Sigma Green Belt certification by mastering the contents of the American Society for Quality (ASQ) Six Sigma Green Belt body of knowledge.
Certified Internal Auditor
The Certified InternalAuditor Exam Review course isbuilt around an adaptive learning platform that focuses your study to your weaker areas, reduces your overall study time to concentrate on learning specific areas.
Entrepreneurship: StartUp and Business Owner Management
Buildastrongfoundationinthe skillsneededtosucceedasan entrepreneur.You'lllearnhowto usefinancialtechniques,legal structures,fundingsourcesand moretogrowyourstart-up business.
Certified Six Sigma Black Belt
This course prepares you for the ASQ Certified Six Sigma Black Belt Examination and equips you to apply Six Sigma concepts and methods as a practitioner or consultant.
Management Training
If you’re thinking of starting a business or pursuing a MBA, learn the essentials here! This course is perfect for business owners, entrepreneurs, and anyone who wants to learn the basicsofbusinessmanagement.
HEALTH CARE
Career Training Courses
Start the career training course at any time. Courses can be completed over a 6-12 month period and are affordably priced. Instructors/mentors are actively involved in the online learning experience. Benefits of completing a career training course includes learning in-demand job skills and gaining access to new course material weekly.
Activity Director
This course is designed to give students the training and insight in working with the activity programs in nursing homes.
Administrative Dental Assistant
Learn how to perform the administrative tasks essential for managing the business aspects of a dental practice.
Certified Electronic Health Records Specialist (CEHRS)
Learn how to implement and utilize electronic health records and become a Certified Electronic Health Records Specialist.
Certified Pharmaceutical Sales Representative
Designed for those interested in a career in sales and marketing within the pharmaceutical industry. Learn the rules and regulations that govern the promotions of prescription sales drugs as well as industry best practices for starting a career in the field.
Certified Professional Life Coach
Learn life coaching techniques and business practices and proven methods established by the International Coach Federation (ICF) and the International Association of Professional Recovery Coaches (IAPRC) to serve a variety of clients. Upon earning your life coaching certification, you will hold the industry-preferred credential needed to launch your career.
CCA Certified Medical Administrative Assistant with Medical Billing and Coding
The CCA Certified Medical Administrative Assistant with Medical Billing and Coding is geared towards students who are interested in obtaining a career in the healthcare industry but have little to no experience within the sector.
Clinical Dental Assistant
This course provides you with the skills needed to become a dental assistant. After you’ve completed the course, you’ll be ready to pursue certification as a dental
assistant by passing the radiology and infection control portions of the Dental Assisting National Board examination.
Fitness Business Management
Learn how to manage a personal training program, department, or facility as a strategic business with completion of this innovative course.
NASM Certified Personal Trainer +Performance Enhancement
This course prepares you to pass and earn your NASM Certified Personal Trainer certification, one of the most respected certifications in the fitness industry with the addition of the NASM Performance Enhancement Specialist (PES).
NCSF Sports Nutrition Specialist
The program will prepare you to sit for the NCSF-SNS Exam and to earn the Sport Nutrition Specialist certificate. This educational program covers all relevant content areas including Nutrients and Intakes, Physiological Aspects of Nutrition, Macronutrients, and much more.
HEALTH CARE
Skill Building Courses
New, instructor-led skill building courses start each month. Courses can be completed over a 3 month period and are affordably priced. Benefits of enrolling in a skill building course includes learning in-demand job skills and gaining access to new course material each week. Self-paced courses start upon enrollment and students can complete them at their own pace. Students can self-enroll at any time.
Certificate in Mindfulness
Examine the many benefits of mindfulness for both your personal and professional life. You’ll also lay the foundation for a career in health and wellness coaching.
Explore a Career in Nursing
As you progress through the course, you’ll learn about several different fields of nursing—from traditional bedside work to critical care areas, like the OR and ICU, to lesser known branches of the field, like nursing informatics.
Handling Medical Emergencies
Learn to recognize the early signs and symptoms of common medical conditions to provide appropriate treatment for a better outcome.
Healthcare Entrepreneurship Bundle
This program guides you through the steps to building your own business. You’ll explore the different options for creating a business and learn how to develop a successful business plan that reflects your vision and allows you to compete in your target market.
HIPAA Compliance
By the time you finish this course, you will be confident and capable of implementing HIPAA’s Administrative Simplification rules, and the laws impacting it, in your own organization. If you are just starting your career in the health care field, gain a priceless addition to your resume.
Medical Math
Master medical calculations in an engaging environment with these fun and practical lessons. Gain the medical math skills needed for anything from calculation dosages to using scientific formulas. Learn to perform day-today math tasks quickly and easily.
Medical Office Basics Suite
Learn medical terminology according to each body system, medical math skills needed to do anything from calculating dosages to using scientific formulas, how to comply with the duties, rights, and responsibilities of Administrative Simplification rules of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and other basic tools.
Medical Spanish Series
Whether you’re new to the Spanish language or just want a refresher, this fun and simple course will give you the basic tools needed to bridge the communication gap. Gain a strong foundation in basic medical Spanish you can build on for years to come.
Medical Transcription
Learn how to transcribe the most common medical reports used in both inpatient and outpatient settings. This knowledge will help prepare you to work almost anywhere in the medical field— doctors’ offices, clinics, public health facilities, and hospitals.
Mind-Body Therapies Bundle
In this certificate, you’ll explore the fundamentals of energy medicine, examine the scientific evidence of the biofield, and explore Indian healing traditions regarding the chakras (the energy centers in the body).
Explore Different Healthcare Career Options
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Prepare to reach your healthcare goals with our career training and skillsbased health-care related courses. Choose from instructor-led or self-paced course delivery options. Course lengths vary from 6 weeks to 12 months depending on the level of coursework. Additionally, some courses offer a voucher for certification.
Administrative Medical Assistant
Master the basics of scheduling patients’appointments, surgeries, and hospital admissions. In addition, you will discover how to create, maintain, and file medical charts.You will also find out how to verify patients’insurance, create encounter forms (charge tickets), post charges,obtainpre-authorizationsfrominsurers,andschedulereturn visits.
Medical Coding
• New instructor-led courses start each month
• Self-paced courses start immediately
• 6 week to 12 month completion options
This is your chance to find out what it’s really like to be a medical coder.Inthiscourse,you’lllearnexactlywhatmedicalcodersdodaily. You’lllearntousetheCPTmanualandtheICD-10-CMtofindmedical codes for any disease, condition, treatment, or surgical procedure which will give you a leg up on other people who are new to this career.
Medical Transcription
Learn how to transcribe the most common medical reports used in both inpatient and outpatient settings.This knowledge will help prepare you to work almost anywhere in the medical field—doctors’ offices, clinics, public health facilities, and hospitals.With this foundation, you will be set to advance your education so you can work asasubcontractorforacompanythatoutsourcestranscription,or you can eventually even take on your own clients—all from the comfort of your own home.
Education and Human Services
Career Training Courses
Start the career training course at any time. Courses can be completed over a 6-12 month period and are affordably priced. Instructors/mentors are actively involved in the online learning experience. Benefits of completing a career training course includes learning in-demand job skills and gaining access to new course material weekly.
Creating an Inclusive Classroom: Strategies for Success
In this course, you will discover how students with special needs can become a part of the mainstream. Learn to see the inclusive classroom as a home for these students while exploring how all students can benefit from an adaptive learning environment.
Educator’s Fundamentals Series
This course reveals fundamental secrets and presents a step-bystep approach to effective, positive classroom discipline. You’ll also get the teacher training needed to deal effectively with serious discipline problems and help even the most challenging students you’re teaching make more responsible choices.
Enhancing Language Development in Childhood
This course will help you enrich your child’s life by stimulating his or her continued speech, brain, and language development in an enjoyable, age-appropriate, and natural way.
Guided Reading and Writing Strategies for Maximum Student Achievement
In this course, you will examine the reasons reading and writing are so difficult for students. Then you will encounter the total literacy framework and see what it does to mitigate literacy problems. Since this framework is based on guided reading lessons that flow naturally into writing challenges, you will learn to successfully transition from guided readings to writing lessons.
Integrating Technology in the Classroom
Learn how to design presentations for auditory, visual, and kinesthetic learning styles, how to teach keyboarding and word processing, and how to develop standardsbased lesson plans, and more.
Prepare for GED Test Series
Preparing for the GED® is key to passing the test. This course helps you prepare on your own time. The Prepare for GED Test Series will help you analyze your strengths
and weaknesses, so you can focus your studying on the areas you need the most. You will learn about the four GED® test modules, with an additional focus on the skills needed to pass the Mathematical Reasoning module.
Reading Strategies Suite
Explore current research that cuts through the media messages about reading wars and the right way to teach children. Learn by reading stories about children, doing interactive assignments, and exploring the latest in parent and childcare information
Singapore Math Strategies: Model Drawing for Grades 1 -6
In this professional development course for teachers, you will get the training needed to start teaching model drawing, the powerful Singapore Math strategy that gives word problems a visual context.
Education and Human Services
Career Training Courses
Start the career training course at any time. Courses can be completed over a 6-12 month period and are affordably priced. Instructors/mentors are actively involved in the online learning experience. Benefits of completing a career training course includes learning in-demand job skills and gaining access to new course material weekly.
Teaching Science: Grades 4-6
Throughout the course, discover worksheets and checklists you and your students can put to immediate use. You’ll see how helpful they are in the lessons on the scientific method, writing a research paper, and producing a science fair. Cover foundational content in both physical science and life science and learn how to use a study of the earth’s atmosphere to teach students how to make and interpret a variety of graphs—an important skill for standardized testing.
Teaching Smarter with SMART Boards
In this course, discover how to create outstanding presentations with a SMART Board and SMART Notebook technology. Explore the basics of using these tools and discover how to create your own SMART board lessons blending text, videos, and graphics. Go beyond the bells and whistles and look at specific ways to use SMART technology to broaden your content and make your lessons accessible to all students.
Teaching Writing: Grades K-3
The course covers ways to support the writers who struggle, whether due to a lack of motivation, fine motor skills, or ideas. And of course, you will explore techniques for getting parents involved so that they can help with writing at home.
TEAS Prep Series
Our TEAS Prep Series will prepare you for all aspects of the TEAS exam. TEAS Prep 1 focuses on Reading and English and Language Usage. TEAS Prep 2 focuses on Mathematics and Science. You will also learn valuable study skills, practice sample exam questions, and establish a test taking strategy for exam day.
The Differentiated Instruction and Response to Intervention Connection
Explore different learning styles and delve into a concept called multiple intelligences. You will examine the factors that motivate students to learn in a child-centered classroom. Master the basics of both DI and RTI and learn how these two approaches work hand-in-hand to enhance children’s learning.
Writing Effective Grant Proposals
In this course, you will learn how to become fully familiar with the institution or project for which you are requesting support. Obtain valuable guidance in preparing a background statement and a brief financial statement to support your request. You will also research some charitable foundation and corporate giving sources.
Test Prep Series
GRE Prep Series
If you're planning to apply to graduate school, you'll likely have to take the GRE. This series is here to help!
Part 1 takes you through all the question types on the verbal reasoning and analytical writing sections, including reading comprehension, text completion, sentence equivalence questions, and both essay tasks. Part 2 features a math review and techniques for tackling the quantitative comparison, data interpretation, and standard math questions that make up the quantitative reasoning sections, as well as how to tackle the GRE's unique new question formats. You'll also gain pointers on time management, anxiety relief, scoring, and general standardized test-taking. Be prepared to excel on exam day to achieve your best potential score!
LSAT Preparation Series
These comprehensive courses offer a flexible, best-in-class virtual LSAT training that fits your schedule, on your terms. LSAT Preparation - Part 1 provides an overview of law school entrance procedures, as well as what you can expect from a career in law. You will then work through analytical reasoning questions and practice the writing sample required in the admissions process. LSAT Preparation -Part 2 reviews reading comprehension and logical reasoning. You will learn techniques for identifying incorrect answers, explanations and interpretations of correct answers, and proven approaches for selecting the correct answers.
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Test-taking is an extremely important skill for many professionals. Earning a degree or a certain certification can provide the boost you need to increase your earnings or open new doors in your chosen industry. Test prep courses are a great way to ensure you have all the knowledge you need to succeed. We make it easy to prepare to pass, with open-enrollment courses that are taught entirely online.
Course Start Dates:
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