Get the essential skills and knowledge you need and earn a recognizable credential from the leading association for online and professional continuing education - UPCEA! Bringing you the leading experts with real-world experience in the field, these programs offer high-value, relevant content and actionable takeaways for practitioners at all levels. Engage with peers from across the field in a virtual classroom to strengthen understanding, breadth of knowledge, and skills. A badge will be awarded upon successful completion of each course. See below for courses and events that are now open for registration.
UPCEA PCO Professional Certificate
Build your expertise and advance your career in Online and Professional Continuing Education with the UPCEA PCO Professional Certificate. Great price!
UPCEA PCO Leader Certificate
Explore online and professional education leadership. The UPCEA PCO Leader courses focus on managing people, data, and ideas.
Course Catalog
Explore all of UPCEA's Online Professional Development Courses and choose the one(s) that best meet your needs for advancement.
Upcoming Professional Development Courses
UPCEA's online professional development courses can be taken individually and in any order. Courses are primarily asynchronous and online, and include a weekly live virtual classroom meeting hosted in Zoom. Courses count towards the UPCEA Professional, Continuing, and Online Education Professional (PCO Pro) Certificate. Complete five UPCEA courses within two years and earn your UPCEA PCO Professional Certificate! Learn more.
Markets, Marketing, and Market Research in Professional Continuing and Online Education
Faculty Member: Joshua McCarthy, Johnson and Wales University
How are new and changing markets identified? How are programs - in both content and format - developed to meet the needs of learners? How can data analysis help shape ongoing understanding of markets? This course will explore the processes and operations that convert markets into enrollments.
Next Offering: 1/6/2025
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Overview of Online and Professional Continuing Education
Faculty Member: Dr. Amy Heitzman, Deputy Chief Executive Officer & Chief Learning Officer, UPCEA
Enrollment management begins when a prospective student inquires and continues to when they are successfully enrolled. It includes all that we do, or should do, as institutions to help prospective students along this journey and to achieve our enrollment goals. This course reviews the steps in the student enrollment journey and analyzes the important activities necessary at each stage including responding to inquiries, admitting new students, staying in touch before the program begins, and onboarding new students to help them anticipate and adjust to their new program.
Next Offering: 1/14/2025
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Program Planning and Oversight in Online and Professional Continuing Education
Faculty Member: Julie Uranis, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Online and Strategic Initiatives, UPCEA
Possessing a solid understanding of the program planning process is critical for an online and continuing education professional, particularly for those involved in the development, design, and delivery of opportunities for diverse learners. Program planning is exciting, complicated, and dependent on the contexts and variables that exist at an institution. This course provides essential background on the process of program planning, good sources of information to guide essential elements in the process, and perspectives online and professional continuing education professionals should consider when planning programs.
Next Offering: 2/17/2025
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