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catalina@idlsystems.comExcelsior College offers Online Professional Health Care Management Certificate in partnership with IDL Systems
ACCESS TO PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ENHANCED FOR HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS
ALBANY, NY– October 9, 2008 – Excelsior College, a world leader in higher education for working adults, has partnered with IDL Systems to launch the online Professional Health Care Management Certificate. The partnership will enhance access to professional development for health care professionals nationwide and prepare them for new and complex challenges present in the American health care delivery system.
The professional development program offers five non-credit bearing courses that are completed at a distance and delivered online using IDL’s adaptive learning - which dynamically adapt to the personal learning styles of each student. Professionals who complete the Health Care Management Certificate will earn a certificate of completion through Excelsior College Center for Professional Development.
The December 2007 Excelsior College/Zogby International survey of 1,547 CEOs and small business owners nationwide, among those who are familiar with online or distance learning, found that more than four in five (83%) strongly believe that a degree from an online program is as credible as a traditional campus-based program.
The Professional Health Care Management Certificate is an online, comprehensive program providing the broad-based cutting-edge skills that the industry demands of today’s health care managers. The program empowers managers to become confident leaders who can think critically and analytically despite the complexities and uncertainties of the health care system. Completion of the following five courses is required to earn Excelsior College’s Professional Health Care Management Certificate, yet courses can be taken individually.
 Register on the Web site: https://www.excelsior.edu/Center_for_Professional_Development/Programs/Healthcare_and%20Medical/Professional_Health_Care_Management_Certificate
 Do a test run and take a demo:
http://idldemo.idlsystems.com/ECDemo/jsp/login.jsp By phone: 518-608-8211
 By e-mail:
cpd@excelsior.edu Excelsior College (
www.excelsior.edu) is an accredited, private, nonprofit institution that focuses on the needs of working adults. Its primary mission is to increase access to a college degree for adult learners by removing obstacles to their educational goals. Excelsior's unique strengths lie in its acknowledged leadership in the assessment of student knowledge. It does so by
providing working adults multiple avenues to degree completion that include its own online courses and college-level proficiency examinations, and the acceptance of credit in transfer from other colleges and universities.
Founded in 1971 and located in Albany, N.Y., it is accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. Its Center for Professional Development has a mission to develop, promote, and deliver high quality, non-credit programs leading to certificates in professional disciplines and to award continuing professional education credits to selected professions.
IDL Systems, Inc. (
www.idlsystems.com) is an online learning solutions provider founded in 1998 by Dr. Nishikant Sonwalkar (Sc.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Intelligent Distance Learning Systems offers the assembly and delivery of web-based courses using Adaptive Learning – a system that uniquely adapts to the learning styles of each student enabling the computer to become a personalized tutor. The result is dramatic improvement in engagement, leading to higher degree and certificate completion rates. IDL is positioned as a client-focused and student-centric company serving the higher education and corporate training markets. Find out more about IDL’s 100 courses and 12 degree concentrations and certificates at
sales@idlsystems.com.
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