Distance Education

Develop the mindset of Lean Operational Excellence, an advanced problem solving approach that facilitates continuous improvement within the organization through the identification and elimination of waste. Lean principles can also be used to streamline processes in the human resource functions such as recruiting, hiring, training, compensating and managing performance.

You cannot manage remote workers like you manage office workers. But you can manage remote workers better, with greater productivity and efficiency. Discover the keys to successful managing in the new workplace of the 21^st century.  

Get a step-by-step practical guide you won’t get anywhere else.  Employees and employers both like the new system. You’ll want to apply these practices to your office workers as well. 

Refine your writing to say exactly what you intend it to say. Make it the best. Explore errors in agreement, structural inconsistencies, shifts in person and tense, and wordiness/concision. Next, you will learn how to correct and reshape sentences that have gone wrong. 

Put the finishing touches on your work by selecting the right capitalization and choosing the best punctuation. In addition, you’ll receive proofreading tips that will help you ensure everything you write is polished and in tip-top shape.

Working remotely does not make you an expert on remote work.

Gain new insights, experiences and advanced tips for working from home.  Find out the 5 bad habits too many remote workers and their managers acquire from lack of experience, tools and expertise. Then acquire the latest strategies for communicating with remote workers. 

Come away with a deeper understanding of this enormous cultural and work shift going on in the workplace and in society. 

Stress isn’t the enemy. It is our perceptions of stress that amp our anxiety and use up all our steam. Events happen every day. How we interpret those events can set the stage for how we feel and how we react to others. 

Discover the magic to work with sentence grammar. First, you will look at various kinds of incomplete sentences—also known as sentence fragments. You’ll learn how to rewrite them to make them whole. Next, find out about run-on sentences—those sentences that keep going on and on. You will develop techniques for punctuating or separating them into new sentences. 

 Then, explore the power of verbs and discover how the various verb forms keep sentences moving along and placed in time. Finally, you'll learn about all of the pronoun groups and how to determine a pronoun's proper form in a sentence.

Get reacquainted with the parts of speech. Don't worry! There's no painful memorizing involved. With these fundamentals in your back pocket, you'll learn how to choose the right word from pairs that sound alike, but have very different meanings. 

Then you'll learn about subjects and predicates, the very foundation of sound sentence structure. You will build a grammar vocabulary and discover the value of using a dictionary as an everyday grammar research tool.

Designed for individuals not currently employed in the dental field who are considering a career as a Dental Assistant.  Provides information and activities to introduce students to the dental profession and to enable individuals to make an informed choice with respect to a dental assisting career.  This is a non-academic course.  Point Value: 1; used for Selection Criteria for the Certified Dental Assistant program at Okanagan College.  Please call the Continuing Studies office at 250-862-5480 or email cskelowna@okanagan.bc.ca to register. Students can register for this course any time and have 4 weeks to complete it from their registration date

Medical Terminology is a fascinating, ever growing language used throughout the medical community. Knowledge of medical terminology equips a student for many medically related fields such as pharmacology, the medical office and numerous hospital and health community positions. The Systems Approach outline used in this distance education course will introduce students to the concept of building language using root words, prefixes and suffixes. 

Students have 6 months from the date of registration to complete this course. 

If you wish to take this as a stand-alone course and not part of a certificate program, please complete this form to apply.

Is writing a memoir on your bucket list? The time to start is now. Capturing your life experiences on paper is a worthwhile mission that will benefit you and countless others. The goal of this online course is to set you up for memoir success, by walking you through the process step by step. The course contains 10 lessons that will prepare your mind, help you to organize your thoughts, and motivate you to start writing.  Please call the Continuing Studies office at 250-862-5480 or email cskelowna@okanagan.bc.ca to register.

This exciting course will cover topics from the first rough floor plan to the final accessory. This course will appeal to anyone interested in decorating their own homes with confidence, those working in the retail decor industry, or anyone considering the first step toward an interior decorating career.  Please call the Continuing Studies office at 250-862-5480 or email cskelowna@okanagan.bc.ca to register.