Professional Development
Higher education is no longer a one-time, four-year affair. Today, working professionals must continually upgrade their skills and update their knowledge in order to keep pace with changes happening across the labor market. Offering valuable professional development experiences will keep today’s lifelong learners coming back for more.
Give Us 15 Minutes and We’ll Give You the Skills: How to Provide Ongoing Training for Online Adjunct Faculty
Jeffrey Czarnec | Associate Dean of Criminal Justice and the Social Sciences in the College of Online and Continuing Education, Southern New Hampshire UniversityWhen you’re dealing with online adjunct faculty, teaching your teachers is a challenge. Full-time jobs, family members, and other responsibilities clamor for their precious time, so how do you grab…
Lifelong Learning Will Prepare Students For Jobs That Don’t Yet Exist
Jeffrey S. Russell | Dean of Continuing Studies and Vice Provost for Lifelong Learning, University of Wisconsin-MadisonNews flash: The future is murky. We all know that accelerating technological change makes it hard to tell what the workforce will look like 20 years from now. Or even…
Five Biggest Roadblocks to Transitioning into Teaching
Cathy Vandewater | Community Manager and Senior Editor, Teach.comAs the prevalence of lifelong occupations wanes in these dynamic times, more and more professionals are reinventing themselves through second or third careers. But these new opportunities also present challenges…
Supporting Soft and Technical Skill Development: The Role of Postsecondary Institutions in Delivering Balanced Ongoing Education
PK Agarwal | Regional Dean and CEO, Northeastern University-Silicon ValleyThere are higher expectations on employees in today’s labor market than ever before. Employers expect their employees to engage in continuous, lifelong learning simply to remain on top of the…
Understanding and Contextualizing Corporate Universities
Didina Gonzalez | Learning Innovation and Impact, Financial Times | IE Business School Corporate Learning AllianceThe concept of the corporate university has changed significantly since it first appeared in the mid-20th century. Corporate universities were originally introduced as a response to traditional academic institutions that…
10 Tips on Embedding Industry and Professional Certifications in Education Programs
Holly Zanville | Senior Advisor for Credentialing and Workforce Development, Lumina FoundationMore and more of today’s students stand to benefit from a promising new trend: certification-embedded education programs. These are partnerships between education institutions and industry and professional associations that stack…
Recognizing Faculty Commitment and Workload using ePortfolios and eBadging
Lara Madden | Professional Development and Community Coordinator, University of Alaska Anchorage“I need to move my class online, and I need to know how.” This is a statement heard on a regular basis here at University of Alaska Anchorage’s (UAA) Academic…