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.
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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
Elevate your leadership in higher ed with this transformative program designed to empower you to manage people, data, and ideas with purpose and precision.
UPCEA Course Catalog
Earn essential skills and a recognized credential through UPCEA’s expert-led programs, featuring actionable insights, peer engagement, and high-value content for all levels.
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.
Forecasting, Budgeting, and Managing Money in an Environment of Uncertainty and Risk
Faculty Member: Michael Jones, Director of Academic Program Development and Support, University of Connecticut
How do those in online and professional continuing education analyze opportunities, project revenue and expenses, identify prudent ways to manage resources, monitor cash flow, and mitigate financial disaster? How do you measure success and respond to failure, reallocate resources, and determine new investment opportunities? Those in online and professional continuing education often operate as a stand-alone business by relying on revenue to support operating costs, and depending on forecasting, cash flow, and agile pivoting to new strategies.
Next Offering: 03/30/2026
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Developing Partnerships, Programs, and Pathways for Community Engagement and Opportunity
Faculty Member: Angie Kamath, Dean at NYU School of Professional Studies
This course offers a pragmatic approach to the strategic development and implementation of online and professional continuing education initiatives aimed at expanding access and opportunity across communities. It will explore how institutions can address the educational needs of historically underserved populations through thoughtful program design, stakeholder collaboration, and targeted outreach.
Next Offering: 03/30/2026
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Credentials Beyond Degrees – the Role of Online and Professional Continuing Educators in Credential Innovation
Faculty Member: Stacy Chiaramonte, Senior Vice President, Strategy and Operations for UPCEA Research and Consulting, UPCEA
In recent years, new forms of credentialing – micro-credentials, certificates, digital badges, among other designations – have emerged as new measures of educational attainment. This course delves into the role online and professional education units play in alternative credentials, from evaluating program opportunities to the design, implementation, quality assurance, and administration of these credentials.
Next Offering: 05/18/2026
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Academic Strategic Planning in a Constantly Changing Environment
Faculty Member: Heather McCullough, Ph.D., Director, Learning and Technology at the University of North Carolina System Office
Learning, planning, implementing, and reassessing permeate all levels of professional, continuing, and online education, more so perhaps than in any other area of higher education. What are the processes for identifying opportunities, developing evidence, determining goals, defining key milestones, establishing accountability, and measuring outcomes? How do you engage others in these processes? This course explores how strategy combines analysis and action.
Next Offering: 05/18/2026
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