NewswireToday - /newswire/ - Albany, NY, United States, 10/14/2008 - Access to professional development enhanced for Health care professionals.

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 EC Website under Center for Professional Development. Click on “Non-Credit” Programs or by phone at 518-608-8211.

Excelsior College 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. (idlsystems.com) is an online learning solutions provider for academic and corporate markets offering web-based courses using Adaptive Learning – a system that uniquely adapts to the learning styles of each student for higher completion rates. IDL is positioned as a client-focused and student-centric company serving the higher education and corporate training markets. Visit the IDL website for more information on over 100 courses and 12 degree concentrations and certificates immediately available.

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