Many learners have acquired valuable training, skills and knowledge through life and work experience. PLAR (Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition) provides students with the opportunity to have such learning assessed and recognized in the form of academic credit toward the requirements of a Thompson Rivers University, Open Learning program.

You can earn Academic Credits for learning from life and work experience

Congratulations! I have passed the Inbound Marketing Certification Exam.

Inbound Marketing University (IMU) is a free marketing retraining program for marketing professionals—as well as marketers between jobs—looking to gain new skills to get ahead in the competitive workforce.

The week-long IMU program includes ten webinar classes and one review session.

The university program concludes with the inbound marketing certification exam. Those who will complete IMU and pass the exam will become Inbound Marketing Certified Professionals and will receive a certificate.

Class 1: How to Blog Effectively for Business. (GF101) Professors: Ann Handley & Mack Collier, MarketingProfs

Class 2: SEO Crash Course to Get Found. (GF102) Professor: Lee Odden, TopRank Online Marketing

Class 3: Social Media and Building Community. (GF201) Professor: Chris Brogan, New Marketing Labs

Class 4: Successful Business Uses for Facebook and LinkedIn .(GF202) Professor: Elyse Tager, Silicon Valley American Marketing Association

Class 5: Viral Marketing and World Wide Raves. (GF301) Professor: David Meerman Scott, author of New Rules of Marketing & PR and
World Wide Rave

Class 6: Advanced SEO Tactics: On Beyond Keyword Research (GF401) Professor: Rand Fishkin, SEOmoz

Class 7: Calls to Action and Landing Page Best Practices (CV101) Professor: Jeanne Hopkins, MECLABS, Marketing Experiments

Class 8: Inbound Lead Nurturing .(CV201) Professor: Brian Carroll, MECLABS, InTouch

Class 9: Successful Email Marketing. (CV301) Professor: Eric Groves, Constant Contact

Class 10: Analyzing Inbound Marketing. (AZ401) Professor:Marshall Sponder, Monster.com, Web Analytics Association for Social Media

Review Session: Inbound Marketing Exam Review Professor: Mike Volpe, HubSpot

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Success Stories

Opening New Doors From post-secondary status to full-fledged Degree and beyond	Educational Evolution Simultaneously laddering a Degree and growing a family
Determination Realizing my dreams in a new country through education	Breaking Barriers Anything is possible if the opportunity is there
Higher Education From an OL Degree all the way to Med School	Academic Recognition Tenacious Carla succeeds through OL
Job Advancement Guiding my own professional direction	Professional Development Meeting standards in a changing workforce

The appointment of Lloyd Loveday and Peter Robertson as Directors, Strategic Partnerships, effective 6 July, 2009.

Peter holds an MBA from Athabasca University, an Advanced Graduate Management Diploma from Athabasca University, and a Bachelor of Management from the University of Lethbridge.  He has extensive marketing and sales experience, and has recently been employed as a Marketing Instructor for TRU in Chandigarh, India.  Peter will be concentrating his efforts on partnerships with Corporations and Professional Associations.

Lloyd holds an MBA in Executive Management from Royal Roads University, and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Regina.  He has 20 years experience in financial planning, Human Resources and Operations, and was the Executive Director of Kamloops Immigrant Services.  Lloyd will be concentrating his efforts on partnerships with Government, non-profit, Aboriginal, First Nations and new immigrants.

Don Poirier will continue to focus on partnerships with universities, colleges, schools and licensing.