The Data Governance Learner Education Pathway is structured to supply individuals with essential knowledge in data governance.  Divided into four distinct levels, each pathway offers a carefully selected series of courses that facilitate a progressive understanding of topics commonly encountered within organizations and integral to career advancement. 

These Education Pathways are designed for anyone pursuing a conceptual comprehension of data governance across various fields and industries, with the goal of stimulating critical thinking and demonstrating how to better leverage any organization’s data and information resources.

Each pathway consists of 3.25 – 4.25 hours of standard course content, supplemented by practice exams after each course. Upon successful completion of the courses within a Pathway, participants will be awarded certificates for both the individual courses and the entire Pathway. Each Pathway also consists of 2.5 – 5.0 hours of elective content for more in-depth study.

Data Governance Learner Education Pathway (Level 3):

This Education Pathway enhances participants’ fundamental knowledge of data governance and prepares them to lead and implement effective strategies by equipping them with a deep understanding of metadata, data quality, and the role of data governance in broader data management activities. Furthermore, learners will explore the crucial role of data stewards in important enterprise initiatives and learn how to effectively implement organizational change management to drive adoption of data governance practices.

Elective courses offer learners the opportunity to explore a range of topics, including connecting data governance and data quality to organizational value, learning from past experiences in data governance, exploring the entire data lifecycle from data creation to retirement, prioritizing data governance initiatives to achieve tangible results, and developing the skills needed to effectively implement change management strategies.

Each Course Includes:

• A 24- to 107-minute educational training video
  • Total standard course time: 3.19 hours
  • Total elective course time: 4.43 hours
• A 6- to 24-question review exam
• “Check for Understanding” quizzes after each course section
• Self-paced and on-demand e-learning
• Unlimited course access
• Pathway CEUs: 10.0 hours

Required Courses within this Education Pathway:

• DG7: Data Governance and Its Relationship to Other Data Management Activities (Kelle O’Neal)
• DS7: The Roles of Data Stewards in Important Enterprise Initiatives (David Plotkin)
• ODC3: Use Organizational Change Management to Drive Adoption (Becky Lyons & Gretchen Burnham)

Elective Courses within this Pathway:

• What is Metadata? (Anthony Algmin)
• What is Data Quality? (Anthony Algmin)
• ODC1: Start with Data Governance to Drive Success (Becky Lyons & Gretchen Burnham)
• DGIQ W24: Connecting Data Governance and Data Quality to Organizational Value (Peter Aiken)
• DGIQ W24: Data Governance Through the Rearview Mirror (Brett Starr)
• DGIQ-E23: Enterprise Data Governance Across the Full Data Lifecycle (Chris Zettler)
• DGIQ-W23: Building Core Change Management Expertise to Empower Your Data Governance Program (Lacy Smith)

Applicable Job Roles/Functions:

Data governance staff, data governance office members, business unit leaders, data and information architects, enterprise architects, data modelers, systems architects, system owners, data stewards, DBAs, data managers, business and data analysts, data engineers, enterprise data council members, IT managers, compliance officers, privacy/data protection officers, data quality managers and leads, MDM staff and leads, career development/career change learners, and other similar roles.