Month at a Glance

Successful Team Based Learning is a 4-week online course that is focused on developing skills for facilitating and supporting team based learning in a variety of learning contexts. Over the course of four weeks, you will learn about the role of team based learning in the higher-education context, with specific focus on team building skills and assessment of team process. You will explore topics related to designing and assessing effective team based learning. Learning activities include group discussions, teamwork, design activities, and more. The important thing to note is this course provides you the opportunity to take on the student perspective within a team based learning environment. You will also learn about strategies for assessing team based learning that you can apply to your real world practice.

Developing Leadership Impact is an intensive four-day program that identifies and develops key leadership skills and explores organizational change leadership. At the core of contemporary leadership is developing self and others to be more aware, collaborative, innovative and resilient. It’s essential that leaders, both in established and emergent positions, maximize the impact of their leadership to better serve their organizations and to leave a powerful legacy. This program provides tools, techniques and approaches to help you to build on your strengths, articulate your personal leadership vision and enhance your capacity to lead others.

This course is designed to help learners continue to hone their writing, research and critical thinking skills. Through a series of selected readings and assignments, learners will develop a working understanding of the writing process, the rhetorical principles of voice and purpose that guide what and how one writes, and the basics of assessing research and academic argument.

All assignments will be formatted and cited using APA conventions. Learners will receive on-going support on all assignments, including comments and guidance on revisions and drafts. Learn to work with team members to peer review assignments.

This course is instructed by various RRU associate faculty.

We don’t actually manage change per se. At best, we manage to manage ourselves and a few of the variables that swirl around us. We can, however, facilitate change. That is, influence its speed, direction, and impact by our thoughtful actions and optimize opportunities that arise. Specifically for leaders in organizations to lead through change, this four-week online course will provide a few core models and some practical skills for working effectively in the midst of ongoing, accelerating flux and change.

Experience a rewarding day-long discovery of the benefits of Indigenization within the work environment. This gathering will offer insights into how the integration of traditional values can have a positive influence on the daily operations of organizations, businesses, and institutions. We will explore how the concepts of traditional values, teachings, practices and protocols effectively serve complex Indigenous governance structures; we will learn how to translate and apply those concepts within contemporary work environments; and we will garner a deeper appreciation for the inclusivity surrounding all aspects of Indigenous Leadership.

This course is structured to prepare students for graduate work in accounting. The course explains accounting concepts and conventions without the use of debits and credits while emphasizing the importance of financial statements and managerial decision-making. The course demonstrates the methods of recording, summarizing, and analyzing an economic entity's financial transactions and explores the different ways of effectively communicating financial information to both internal users, such as management and external users, such as investors and creditors of financial information.

This four-week online course introduces students to basic accounting processes and principles. The course is also excellent for those wanting to brush up on their general financial accounting skills. It focuses on the structure, format, and meaning of financial statements; the role of users of financial statements; debits and credits system, and liabilities and payables transactions.

Financial Accounting Fundamentals also serves as preparation for applicants of RRU's Graduate and Undergraduate programs.

This course is designed to help learners continue to hone their writing, research and critical thinking skills. Through a series of selected readings and assignments, learners will develop a working understanding of the writing process, the rhetorical principles of voice and purpose that guide what and how one writes, and the basics of assessing research and academic argument.

All assignments will be formatted and cited using APA conventions. Learners will receive on-going support on all assignments, including comments and guidance on revisions and drafts. Learn to work with team members to peer review assignments.

This course is instructed by various RRU associate faculty.