Key Takeaways

• Students complete modules at their own pace (full-time or part-time) and can personalize their learning pathway through individualized capstone projects
• Earn three certificates throughout the program without any extra classes needed
• Program utilizes the same faculty and similar curriculum to our nationally-ranked residential MLE program

Who Should Apply?

Education and Language Professionals

• Motivated professionals in educational and multilingual contexts seeking professional learning and credentialing for career advancement in language education, specializations, and more.

Distance Learners

• Driven students, international students or working professionals who may not be able to pursue an in-person, full-time degree option, but still want to progress their career with a nationally ranked education degree.

Key Takeaways

• Work with faculty to complete a capstone design project based on real world experience
• Specialize education through three cores of study and three optional certificates 
• Combine engaging asynchronous activities using innovative tools with synchronous meetings, providing both flexibility and meaningful interaction with instructors and peers

Who Should Apply?

Education Professionals

• Motivated professionals in educational contexts seeking professional learning for career advancement in Instructional Design, Technology Specialist, Learning Analytics, and Curriculum Development role

Distance Learners

• Driven students, international students or working professionals who may not be able to pursue an in-person, full-time degree option, but still want to progress their career with a nationally ranked education degree.

Key Takeaways

• All coursework and field opportunities meet Behavior Analyst Certification Board requirements

• Master’s students collaborate on and assist with research projects led by our expert faculty in special education and ABA

• Students participate in fieldwork opportunities in school, clinic, and home settings, with professional networking opportunities in the field

Who Should Enroll?

Education Professionals

• Motivated professionals in educational contexts and clinical settings seeking professional learning and credentialing for career advancement in Applied Behavior Analysis.

Distance Learners

• Driven students, international students or working professionals who may not be able to pursue an in-person, full-time degree option, but still want to progress their career with a nationally ranked education degree.

Key Takeaways

• Online master’s degree program that builds the foundations for human‑centered improvement in educational settings, emphasizing how people, data, and systems interact to support meaningful change
• Specialize the degree in one of three areas: Leading Educational Systems, Higher Education Leadership, or International Education and Development
• Curriculum combines asynchronous learning with access to faculty through weekly synchronous live sessions

Who Should Enroll?

Education Professionals

• This program is designed for working professionals across PreK–12, postsecondary, and international educational settings who want to deepen their impact and expand their capacity to support meaningful improvement. It is an ideal fit for individuals seeking to take on greater responsibility in their current roles—whether by guiding change efforts, strengthening educational systems, or contributing to data‑informed decision‑making.

Distance Learners

• Educators, staff, and professionals from schools, districts, colleges, universities, nonprofit organizations, and global education contexts will find the flexible online format especially well‑suited to continuing their careers while advancing their skills. The program welcomes applicants who are motivated to grow, eager to influence positive outcomes, and committed to improving the educational environments and communities they serve.

Key Takeaways

Upon completion of the certificate, students will be able to:

• Describe the value of social context analysis and careholder engagement in social impact design and evaluation, and develop tools for designing and implementing both
• Understand and employ the technical competencies associated with social impact design and evaluation such as design of multi-level interventions; study design; data collection, management, and analysis; and data visualization and use
• Understand and employ the tactical competencies associated with social impact design and evaluation such as relationship development and maintenance, conflict navigation, problem setting, advocacy, and storytelling
• Ground social impact design and evaluation in principles and practices that foster equity and justice

Who Should Enroll?

• Prerequisites: Completed Bachelor’s degree plus current enrollment in a master’s or doctoral degree program within Vanderbilt University. Students must take Program Evaluation or Evaluation of Organizational Performance, and Applied Data Analysis and Visualization for Social Impact prior to taking the practicum course.
• Best Suited For: Current Peabody and Vanderbilt master’s or doctoral students who are planning careers in government, nonprofit, academic or corporate settings who want to design and assess significant change that impact a pressing social challenge

Key Takeaways

Through this certificate, students will develop skills relevant to:

• Understanding the complex psychosocial needs of children, adolescents and families in health care settings and situations
• Conducting pediatric healthcare research with children and their families and identifying evidence-based techniques for improving the quality and efficacy of medical and psychosocial care and research with/for children
• Identifying seminal and contemporary theories of loss and grief, and examining evidence-based interventions that positively impact loss and grief trajectories for children and families

Who Should Enroll?

• Prerequisites: Completed Bachelor’s degree plus current enrollment in a master’s or doctoral degree program within Vanderbilt University. Successful completion of undergraduate or graduate coursework in child development and research methods is a prerequisite to enrollment.
• Note: Not all Peabody professional degree programs include enough elective credits to make earning an additional certificate possible. Students are encouraged to confer with their program director as well as with certificate directors to ensure they can meet all requirements for both degree and certificate programs.

Key Takeaways

Through this certificate, students will:

• Gain foundational skills and knowledge to analyze learner data from educational datasets
• Be introduced to basic programming languages for analyzing data
• Learn the essential principles for collecting, organizing, analyzing, and interpreting educational data
• Use text analysis strategies and natural language processing techniques to extract information from educational related text
• Explore advanced concepts in machine learning to conceptualize educational problems from an algorithmic perspective

Who Should Enroll?

• Prerequisites: Completed Bachelor’s degree plus current enrollment in a master’s or doctoral degree program within Vanderbilt University
• Note: Not all Peabody professional degree programs include enough elective credits to make earning an additional certificate possible. Students are encouraged to confer with their program director as well as with certificate directors to ensure they can meet all requirements for both degree and certificate programs.

Key Takeaways

Upon completion of the certificate, students will be able to:

• Identify opportunities and limitations of new and established technologies for particular learning situations
• Critically analyze how technologies form part of larger systems of activity where people think and learn
• Imagine new futures for how technology could be designed differently to support cognition and development
• Create socio-technical designs that leverage the learning possibilities of novel technologies

Who Should Enroll?

• Prerequisites: Completed Bachelor’s degree plus current enrollment in a master’s or doctoral degree program within Vanderbilt University
• Note: Not all Peabody professional degree programs include enough elective credits to make earning an additional certificate possible. Students are encouraged to confer with their program director as well as with certificate directors to ensure they can meet all requirements for both degree and certificate programs.

Key Takeaways

Upon completion of the certificate, students will be able to:

• Communicate effectively to policymakers about the importance of early childhood education initiatives at the local, state, and federal levels;
• Advocate for research-backed early childhood education initiatives and programs;
• Translate ECE research to practice, such that it is accessible and digestible to practitioners in the policy arena

Who Should Enroll?

• Prerequisites: Completed Bachelor’s degree plus current enrollment in a master’s or doctoral degree program within Vanderbilt University
• Note: Not all Peabody professional degree programs include enough elective credits to make earning an additional certificate possible. Students are encouraged to confer with their program director as well as with certificate directors to ensure they can meet all requirements for both degree and certificate programs.

Key Takeaways

Upon completion of the certificate, students will be able to:

• Identify the brain networks associated with reading and writing and their disorders
• Describe the brain basis of lexical processing
• Understand processes for identifying students with dyslexia
• Interpret formative literacy assessments
• Use data to make instructional decisions for students with reading disabilities
• Develop and implement instructional lessons for students with or at-risk for reading disabilities

Who Should Enroll?

• The program is best suited for students in education-related degree programs who seek careers in educational systems that will serve and support students with dyslexia.
• Prerequisites: Completed Bachelor’s degree plus current enrollment in a master’s or doctoral degree program within Vanderbilt University