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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 five-week course is designed for both those who are new to online and professional education as well as those with significant experience who want to learn more about strategic planning, innovation, and decision-making. Learn more and register by September 13. https://ow.ly/bx9X50SLcos

In a recent episode, I spoke with Marc Watkins from the University of Mississippi about how generative AI is transforming student learning. Marc highlighted that the latest AI tools, like ChatGPT, are now multimodal, handling text, images, audio, and video. To explore this further, I interviewed my wife, Emily Bruff, a marketer for Zondervan Academic, about a multimodal project she completed for the book Know the Theologians. Emily used an AI image generator to create theologian trading cards, and we discussed how such tools can be applied to student assignments. Listen now. https://ow.ly/mNFu50SKtem

Schools are beginning to realize that across the institution's colleges, there is need to integrate IT and Cybersecurity domain areas within their respective programs. From programs such supply chain, health informatics, criminal justice, law, and accounting, these domain areas need to include IT audit, risk, governance, security, and data privacy. Higher Education is realizing that MBA and Supply Chain students need to understand cybersecurity, law students need to under risk, and in our new digital world, those students in Criminology need to understand cybersecurity forensics and audit. Register. https://lnkd.in/eWY-iERk

REGISTER BY JULY 31. As online and professional continuing education professionals, we continually face evolving challenges and opportunities in our field. This Salon will serve as a collaborative forum where we can share insights, discuss emerging trends, and develop innovative strategies to enhance our programs and better serve our students. Join us for this half-day virtual learning salon to connect with colleagues from New England and discuss challenges in online, professional, and continuing education. Learn more and register. https://ow.ly/20tI50SKs1k

As generative AI technology becomes increasingly capable of tackling complex tasks, conventional legal jobs and routine tasks like research, writing, and data entry could increasingly get handled by virtual assistants. It will drive day-to-day legal tasks, with legal practitioners acting as supervisors and strategists. The most successful professionals won’t be the ones experimenting with generative AI — they will be the ones preparing for a legal industry that will look a lot different in 2034 than it does today. Read more. https://ow.ly/60Qi50SIxn1

We have been following the rapid development of knowledge and abilities of GenAI over the past couple of years. OpenAI Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Mira Murati recently gave some additional clarity on its capabilities. In an interview with Dartmouth Engineering, Murati describes the jump from GPT-4 to GPT-5 as someone growing from a high-schooler up to university. Read more. https://ow.ly/J1Y850SIpjb

UPCEA seeks a part-time Project Coordinator who will balance time between grant support and support for UPCEA’s learning portfolio. The Project Coordinator will support a major new grant which has a primary focus of helping UPCEA members increase capacity with regard to engaging employers in credential innovation. The Project Coordinator will also offer broad support for UPCEA’s Learning and Volunteer Engagement (LVE) Division. Application Deadline: July 26, 2024. Learn more. https://ow.ly/873250SFrmI

UPCEA is honored to receive a $600,000 grant from Walmart to drive innovation in skills-based credentialing with a project titled, “Expanding Institutional Capacity for Employer Engagement in Credential Innovation.” This project will drive adoption of new models for higher ed engagement with employers and build out the UPCEA Hallmarks for Credential Innovation. The new model is a train-the-trainer approach for University-to-Business outreach and will use a scalable, design thinking-framework. Read more. https://ow.ly/o3CQ50SJ9SJ

PROPOSAL DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JULY 29! UPCEA members are invited to propose content for 2025 Annual Conference concurrent sessions which reflect the varied areas of practice of the UPCEA community: leaders in online and professional continuing education. Especially of interest are presentations that are highly interactive in format, feature multiple presenters and institutions/organizations, and can address the needs of a wide range of institutional types and sizes, as well as diverse populations of credit and noncredit learners. Learn more. https://ow.ly/61MU50SoKa9

Job Posting | St. John's University seeks a Chief Online Learning Officer. For more information and to apply: https://ow.ly/huB450SHG4V