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.
Academic Strategic Planning in a Constantly Changing Environment
Faculty Member: Carmin Chan, Vice Provost, Northern Arizona University Online
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: 09/16/2024
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Managing New Enrollments - From Prospective Student to Matriculant
Faculty Member: Stephanie Platteter, Executive Director of Marketing and Enrollment Management, University of Minnesota College of Continuing & Professional Studies
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: 10/21/2024
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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
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: 10/21/2024
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