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Continue Your Learning into the Summer and Fall with the CES e-Institute

If you are looking to continue your learning into the summer and fall, we are excited to share our upcoming course offerings. 

Self-paced Courses 

Increase your evaluation knowledge and skills anytime, anywhere with our offerings of self-paced courses! The following courses are offered in English:

• Stats in Excel 1: Tidy Data Sets & Descriptive Statistics: Learn how to set up your spreadsheets, clean your data, choose appropriate analyses, and conduct common descriptive statistics in Microsoft Excel. This self-paced course offers best practices and step-by-step instructions for getting the most out of your data in Excel. 
• Introduction to Economic Evaluation: This self-paced course helps evaluators understand four commonly used economic evaluation methods. You will learn about the key concepts underlying cost inclusive evaluations and will have ample opportunities to apply them to case studies and other exercises.
• Essential Skills Series: Learn the fundamentals of evaluation – the course provides instruction on how to plan and conduct an evaluation and covers the evaluation landscape in Canada including evaluation standards, competencies, and guidance for ethical practice. You’ll have the opportunity to solidify your learning by working through an evaluation planning case study throughout the course!
• Evaluation Theories and Models: Learn how evaluation theory can improve your work – this course is for people who understand the fundamentals of evaluation, but are not well versed in evaluation theory, models, or frameworks. Drawing on the evaluation theory tree, the course provides examples from each of the four families of theories, and allows you to plan an evaluation from each theory family. 
• Survey Methods: Learn about one of the most commonly used methods in evaluation – This course provides step-by-step instructions for designing surveys, developing questions, preparing for the analysis of survey data, and reporting. A case study allows you to practice the concepts and techniques introduced in the course.  

Facilitated Courses

Learn with others and get personalized feedback on your progress with our facilitated courses!

• Truth & Reconciliation for Evaluators: Actively engage with Truth and Reconciliation with two live, facilitated sessions and three self-paced modules on: 1) the history and lasting impact of the Canadian Indian residential school system on Indigenous students and their families, and 2) guidance on how evaluation practices can advance Truth & Reconciliation. The next cohort begins in September and space is limited to 25 participants. Registration will open in August.
• Survey Methods Plus: Looking for individualized support to take your survey skills to the next level? This course offers a facilitated version of the Survey Methods course. You learn a step-by-step approach to designing and deploying surveys and work on and receive personalized feedback on your own survey.  The course is facilitated by Benoît Gauthier and Simon Roy, the creators of the original Survey Methods self-paced course. The next cohort begins in October and space is limited to 15 participants. Registration will open in August. 

Discounts Available

For all courses:

• CES members get 20% off
• CEs get 30% off