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

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

Tags:

Research,
2020 Issue,

Laptop with video call on table next to mug

MOOCs

Creating a New Model for MOOCS

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...

Tags:

News article,
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...

Tags:

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...

Tags:

Op-ed,
2020 Issue,

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...

Tags:

News article,
2020 Issue,

Maria del Carmen Gonzalez - Woman with dark hair wears cap and gown with yellow scarf

Continuing Education

Going Back to School, She Graduated to a New Life

Stephen Witty

Sometimes the only way to convince yourself you must do something is to have someone insist you can’t. Maria del Carmen Gonzalez had dreams of going back to...

Tags:

News article,
2020 Issue,

Letter from the Editor - Picture shows blurred timestop photo of someone spinning a sparkler in a circle with sparks flying off

Online

From the Editor: Dr. Richard J. Novak

Richard J. Novak

One of my favorite Grateful Dead songs is “Truckin’,” a hit from 1970 so popular it was recognized in 1997 by the United States Library of...

Tags:

Op-ed,
2020 Issue,

Continuing Education

University Professional/Continuing Education Experts Keep Spring Semester Alive During COVID-19 Crisis

Margaret McHugh

Karen Bull, dean of the University of North Carolina Greensboro’s Division of Online Learning, was running a leadership retreat in late February when her...

Tags:

News article,
2020 Issue,

Innovation

Credentials Unbound

Jay A. Halfond

For more than a millennium, universities have awarded degrees to their graduates in much the same form as America’s academic institutions do today. Through...

Tags:

Op-ed,
2020 Issue,

Continuing Education

Why the World’s Leading Continuing Education Association Made Online Leadership a Top...

Robert J. Hansen

[Author’s Note: This article was written just before the pandemic. I worried that my celebration of community in the streets of New Orleans would seem wildly...

Tags:

Op-ed,
2020 Issue,

Continuing Education

Letter from the Editor: Thomas F. Gibbons

Thomas F. Gibbons

March 2019 Dear Colleagues, It seems like a thousand years ago, but when serving as UPCEA president in 2012-1013 I proposed that the association rethink...

Tags:

Innovation

Preface to Special Topic Section: Recent Perspectives on Credentialing Innovation

Sean Gallagher

Within higher education—and beyond—there is tremendous and growing interest in innovation in educational credentialing. In the job market, educational...

Tags:

Articles

Latest Articles

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

Creating a New Model for MOOCS

Students of Online Programs Make Great Alumni

Standing on, and Building, the Shoulders of Giants

Perennial Seniors

Going Back to School, She Graduated to a New Life

From the Editor: Dr. Richard J. Novak

University Professional/Continuing Education Experts Keep Spring Semester Alive During COVID-19 Crisis

Credentials Unbound

Why the World’s Leading Continuing Education Association Made Online Leadership a Top...

Letter from the Editor: Thomas F. Gibbons

Preface to Special Topic Section: Recent Perspectives on Credentialing Innovation