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. Learning, planning, implementing, and reassessing permeate all levels of professional, continuing, and online education -- more so than perhaps any other area of higher education.
This four week course will consist of about 5 hours of asynchronous online coursework and weekly live virtual classroom meetings hosted in Zoom. Please be sure you are able to join a Zoom meeting prior to these events. Live classroom attendance is strongly encouraged but not mandatory. If you are unable to attend live classroom meetings, recordings of those events will be posted in the course shortly after the meeting.
Live Video Conference Schedule:
Tuesday 05/31/2022
Tuesday 06/07/2022
Tuesday 06/14/2022
Tuesday 06/21/2022
Tuesday 06/28/2022
All Sessions 4:00-5:00 PM ET
Welcome to the Quick Start Guide
This guide is highly recommended if this is your first professional development course with UPCEA. Some tips are provided for navigating the course as well as information about how to obtain technical support.
Tips for Navigating this Course
Content pages need to be acknowledged. Once you have read, viewed, or otherwise completed the content, look for the button at the end to acknowledge you have completed the item. Sometimes, this step is required in order to advance to future items in the course.
Future items may be hidden from view. For example, content for the coming week may not be visible until the course facilitator releases it to the class.
Some items have prerequisites and do not become available until after you have completed the item it depends upon. Prerequisite items have a grey overlay (making them look translucent) with a lock next to them. When you click on the item, its acknowledgement button will note what item it depends on (see image below for an example).
Tips for Working with Discussions
Discussions will take place in CORe, UPCEA's community forum. When you access a discussion assignment, you will see the prompt and a link that will take you to the discussion thread in CORe. If you are prompted to log in, please use the same log in credentials that you use to access the Learning Center.
You are encouraged to update you CORe profile with a bio and headshot. CORe is a great place to engage with your classmates during and after the course.
NOTE: Discussion posts are private and restricted to the participants in this course. Your posts will not be accessible on the public CORe forum.
Tips for Viewing Videos
Some videos may be arranged in a playlist. A playlist will automatically play all videos in the series in order.
The playlist will automatically play through all videos after you start the first video.
You can view all videos in the playlist by clicking on the playlist icon (see image below where the icon is in a blue circle). You can skip to any video in the playlist by clicking on it.
For the Best Experience
Use either the FireFox or Google Chrome browser app for the best experience. The course has been tested to work well with these two browsers.
Technical Support
Email: pd@upcea.edu
Hours of Operation: 8:00 am to 4:30 pm EST. Expect a response within 1 business day.
Vickie Cook
Associate Vice Chancellor, Online, Professional, and Engaged Learning
University of Illinois Springfield
Vickie Cook, Ph.D., is Vice Chancellor for Enrollment and Retention Management the University of Illinois Springfield. Previously, Cook served as Associate Vice President of Innovation and Technology, and Dean of the School of Education and Director of Online Learning at Greenville University. Cook has published more than 40 journal articles and book chapters in a variety of national educational publications, and serves as a peer reviewer for six of the top journals in the field of Online Learning and Education. She holds a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration and an M.A. in Adult Education from Capella University, and completed her B.A. at Western Illinois University.
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Week 1 - Video Conference Meeting - Thursday 04/01/2021, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM (Eastern)
04/01/2021 at 4:00 PM (EDT) | 60 minutes
04/01/2021 at 4:00 PM (EDT) | 60 minutes
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Meeting ID: 975 9568 4262
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Begin working on the Brief Literature Review by identifying literature that should be included to define the problem or innovation more fully.
Week 3 - Video Conference Meeting - Thursday 04/15/2021, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM (Eastern)
04/15/2021 at 4:00 PM (EDT) | 60 minutes
04/15/2021 at 4:00 PM (EDT) | 60 minutes
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https://upcea.zoom.us/j/97595684262
Meeting ID: 975 9568 4262
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Meeting ID: 975 9568 4262
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Week 4 - Video Conference Meeting - Thursday 04/22/2021, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM (Eastern)
04/22/2021 at 4:00 PM (EDT) | 60 minutes
04/22/2021 at 4:00 PM (EDT) | 60 minutes
Join Zoom Meeting
https://upcea.zoom.us/j/97595684262
Meeting ID: 975 9568 4262
One tap mobile
+13017158592,,97595684262# US (Washington DC)
+13126266799,,97595684262# US (Chicago)
Dial by your location
+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)
+1 929 436 2866 US (New York)
+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)
+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)
+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)
Meeting ID: 975 9568 4262
Find your local number: https://upcea.zoom.us/u/aO1Gv3Yg5