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Achieving Smart Growth in Microcredential Programs

Professional Continuing and Online (PCO) leaders are inundated with hype touting microcredentials as the future of education and the way to maintain the relevance of higher ed in a shifting landscape. Amidst the pressure to stand up new microcredential offerings, leaders should prioritize financial sustainability to ensure that they meet their financial goals in this chaotic space, whether seeking to use microcredentials as a revenue stream or just looking to break even while achieving mission-driven goals. In this roundtable, we will examine the current microcredentials landscape, profile tactics to ensure that microcredential offerings are aligned to market demand before launch, and share approaches to ongoing assessment of microcredential performance.

Organizational Design and Strategy Benchmarks for Professional, Continuing, and Online Education Informational Session

Join Matt McAloon in an information session on the Organizational Design and Strategy Benchmarks for Professional, Continuing, and Adult education survey. In the November 16th and December 7th sessions he’ll cover highlights from the old survey, what’s new in relaunch of the survey, and helpful tips for completing the survey.

Research and Services

Organizational and Strategic Benchmarks for Professional, Continuing, and Online Education Leaders

Contribute your PCO organization’s data to receive customized benchmarking and industry-spanning insights.

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Launching an Online Education Programme? 5 Questions and Recommendations from EAB Experts

This report outlines decision points and lessons learned to consider when launching an online education programme at your higher ed institution.

Professional and Adult Education Social Media Toolkit

This toolkit contains 12 tools to support PCO units in developing a formal social media strategy, creating content, and gauging ROI.

Professional and Adult Education Web Presence Audit

EAB’s audit will help higher ed institutions identify opportunities to improve their professional, continuing, and online education websites and appeal to prospective adult students.

Quick Reads

Ask these 3 questions to evaluate graduate and online growth partners

Here are the three questions leaders should ask themselves when considering an external vendor—Online Program Management (OPM) providers or otherwise.

3 essential staff roles to grow adult and professional education revenue

Dedicating staff to these roles builds the capacity for more significant revenue-generating activities, according to a dataset of 230+ institutions.

What we learned helping 100 universities recruit adult learners

See four important lessons learned from helping 100+ schools recruit students to their graduate, online, and undergraduate degree completion programs.

Experts

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Senior Director, Professional and Adult Education Forum
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