Bea Gonzalez stands holding an award next to her father

Bethaida “Bea” González could not have imagined how her world would change when her parents enrolled in an English-language acquisition course at Syracuse...

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Lifelong Learning Programs Adapt to an Online World

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In the best of times, lifelong learning programs fill important human needs for senior adults, supporting intellectual development, encouraging artistic...

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Contemporary Learners

A Virtuous Cycle: Driving Equity Through Financial Gifts in the Non-credit Space

Rovy Branon

“Collaboration is the key to success, and equity must be a chief consideration in this process.” – Ana Mari Cauce, president, University of Washington...

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Alternative Credentialing

Prior Learning Assessment: Necessary Burden or Future-Proofing Strategy?

Robert J. Hansen and Burck Smith

In less than a year, the COVID-19 pandemic has made the world of work look dramatically different. Millions of jobs have been erased, automation has...

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Online Education

The Radical Inflection Point in Online Learning

Marsha Prospere

For more than two decades, countless leaders in professional, continuing and online education have urged their institutions to embrace the power and promise of...

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Contemporary Learners

From Remote Instruction to Online Learning: What COVID-19 Can Show Us About...

Stephen G. Pelletier

Who says higher education can’t change with dispatch? When the coronavirus hit in the spring of 2020, thousands of colleges and universities pivoted quickly...

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Online Education

Welcome to the Spring/Summer 2021 Issue – From the Editor, Dr. Richard...

Richard J. Novak

Dear Colleagues, Welcome to a new issue of UPCEA UNBOUND. We are glad that you are here. One of the new strategies that we have employed with UNBOUND is to...

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Research and Policy

New Economy and Changing Demographics that Will Impact Professional, Continuing and Online...

Jim Fong

The Disruption of Higher Education and the Fourth Industrial Revolution Higher education is at the crossroads of economic, demographic, technological...

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MOOCs

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Sherrie Negrea

In 2008, massive, open, online courses burst onto the higher education landscape when two Canadian researchers launched a course on the theory of connectivism...

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2020 Issue,

Online

Students of Online Programs Make Great Alumni

Faye Lesht, David Schejbal and Roxanne Shiels

Running head: STUDENTS OF ONLINE PROGRAMS MAKE GREAT ALUMNI Students of Online Programs Make Great Alumni Faye L. Lesht, Marquette University David...

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Continuing Education

Standing on, and Building, the Shoulders of Giants

Nelson Baker

As UPCEA’s 2019-2020 board president, it has been an honor to work with the many wonderful people who are committed to this organization. These individuals...

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Continuing Education

Perennial Seniors

Margaret McHugh

Retirees Enticed by Campus Life Patsy and Warren Nelms met and married while undergraduates at the University of Florida in the 1950s and raised two...

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