Learn How to Leverage Your Experience Working With Children to a New Field!
Sign up for the Introductory Course in Children’s User Research
Earn up to 4 Continuing Education Units (CEU’s)
Online & Asynchronous
When signing up you will be asked to set up an account. This ensures you can login and access the course whenever you want. Once you set up your account, you will be able to purchase the course.
WHAT WILL BE COVERED IN THIS FOUR PART COURSE?
What children’s user research is and how it informs product development
How experience working with children and understanding child development lends to successful children’s research design and implementation
How to best design children's research
Various research methods
Best practices for implementation
How to analyze data and look for big themes
How to decipher findings into actionable recommendations
Various real world case studies
WHY TAKE THIS COURSE?
You are ready for a change and want a career where you can still work with children but have more flexibility, increased income, and continue to grow with new challenges and possibilities
You are exploring new opportunities where you can leverage your experience working with children
You want to enhance you current practice with new skills, techniques and methods
You are interested in children’s research and want to learn more
You want to earn CEU’s and are looking to take an interesting course to fulfill them
WHO IS THIS COURSE INTENDED FOR?
Professionals who work with children and are looking for a different career avenue or a supplemental source of income
Teachers, Speech Therapists, Play Therapists, Child Life Specialists etc.
New graduates of programs in education, child development and research who are exploring what’s next
Children’s product developers or curriculum designers
User Research professionals that want to learn more about facilitating research with children
Anyone interested in learning more about the field of children’s user research!
WHAT’S INCLUDED?
Video instruction-all curriculum will be provided
Activities to try on your own
PDF version of the course presentation
CEU credit provided (additional fee). Sign up and pay for your credit through University of San Diego Professional and Continuing Education
All four parts of the course are listed as separate courses. Sign up for the ones you want to receive credit for. You can get anywhere from 1-4 CEU units
For people who opt into the CEU unit(s), you will complete CEU activities outlined in the online course that correspond to the course(s) you have selected to get credit for
Once your activities are submitted and approved, you will receive paperwork verifying your credit from the University of San Diego Professional and Continuing Education Department
All details are covered in the course!
Frequently Asked Questions
+ How long is the course?
Each part of the course is around 1 hour. There are four parts in the course so it's easy to take the course in parts. Some people take it all at once while others take one part per week, whatever works best for you!
+ How long will I have to access the course?
Once you purchase the course, you will have unlimited access to it under your account
+ If I am opting into the CEU's, how long do I have to complete the required work?
Once you sign up and pay for your CEU's through the University of San Diego Professional and Continuing Education program you will have a certain period of time to complete the required course activities.
-If you sign up for the CEU's before Jan 1st 2024, the activities will need to be completed by December 31st 2023.
-If you sign up for the CEU's after Jan 1st 2024, the activities will need to be completed by December 31st 2024.
MEET MEGAN!
Megan Boddum, M.Ed. currently works as an independent consultant focusing on helping companies and individuals with various children’s technology, media, education and research initiatives. Megan has over fifteen years of experience working in children’s user research and has worked with the top companies in children’s media and technology.
Megan has worked with Google, Lego Education, YouTube Kids, Netflix, Disney, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Stanford School of Education and many more!
Online & Asynchronous
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