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Certificate Programs - Program Structure

To satisfy the requirements of most IHRDC Certificate Programs you must complete four forms of learning:

1. Background Learning:
Complete a specified set of IPIMS learning programs devoted to the important background knowledge, concepts and practices of the Program’s subject area. Each learning program consists of video, text, graphics, exercises and assessments. You must achieve a minimum score of 85 percent in the assessment questions to successfully complete this phase of the Certificate Program.

2. Action Learning:
Demonstrate performance competency in the subject area by completing a series of IHRDC’s unique interactive Action Learning Plans involving virtual job assignments. These assignments are built around IHRDC-designed scenarios that incorporate industry-defined competencies, actual field data and real-world situations that you are likely to encounter on the job and delivered through the IPIMS elearning system. You must score a minimum of 85 percent on each Action Learning Plan.

3. Capture of Practical Knowledge:
Using the Practical Knowledge template of IPIMS.ep, capture, and send to your IHRDC mentor for acceptance "recommended practices" related to the Certificate Program subject area within your own work environment.The IHRDC mentor and your supervisor or company mentor should approve the list of practical knowledge that you are to capture.

4. Written Assignment:
To demonstrate your writing skills, thinking abilities and professional competency, you must submit a brief, original paper of publishable quality devoted to the subject matter of the Certificate Program. The paper should contain one or more recommendations for applying technology, better operating practices or improved business practices within your company. Alternatively, you may prepare a research report summarizing recent developments in a given area of technology, business or management practices with references to be presented to your management. Your IHRDC mentor must approve the topic of your assignment in advance. Your manager and the IHRDC mentor must approve the final report in order to successfully complete this learning assignment.

Planning and Duration

Each Certificate Program for which graduate credit is offered will require approximately 200 hours of dedicated effort to complete. This means that you can complete a Program in five weeks if you make a full-time effort or in about 15 weeks if you devote only 14 hours per week to your continuing development. Other certificate programs require fewer hours to complete. Successful completion of a certificate program will count for a maximum of five graduate credit hours.Transfer of these credit hours to the Master Degree Program will be based on acceptance by examination and/or evaluation.

Because these programs are taught exclusively online, they can be pursued at any time. However, if scheduled during one of the three 15-week Shared-Learning Sessions per year, participants can progress on a part-time deliberate pace, communicate and share learning with each other and with the IHRDC mentors. These sessions begin in September, February and June annually.


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