11/21/2024

Hi TOPcast Insiders!

As an online education professional do you “touch” non-credit online programs as part of your daily work? If so, what would you add to the discussion in the current episode? If not, what challenges do you face in engaging? We would love to hear your thoughts about how the alternative credentialing part of our field might advance. Send us a note at topcast@ucf.edu.

- Tom and Kelvin

Article with Links to Programs: “56 Courses and Programs That Celebrate the Value Hispanic-Serving Institutions Offer to All Learners on edX” [includes UCF]

In this episode hosts Kelvin and Tom talk through the valuable role alternative (“non-credit”) online learning opportunities can play for the local communities we serve and for the continued relevance of online higher education.

• Midnight Oil from Foxtail Coffee, Winter Park, FL

• From the Stanford University Design School: “Uncharted Territory: A Guide to Reimagining Higher Education”
  
• UCF’s Continuing Education Programs
• In EDUCAUSE Review: “The 60-Year Curriculum: A Strategic Response to a Crisis” (Richards & Dede)
  
• In The Evolllution: “Finding Innovative Ways to Offer Non-Credit” (Siegenthaler)
  
• In The Evolllution: “How Credit for Prior Learning has the Opportunity to Create New Prosperity in Higher Education” (Bergman)
• From CAEL: “A Brighter Future Through Credit for Prior Learning”
• From StraighterLine: “[Case Study] Utah State University: Expanding Access with Earned Admission”
• From NIRSA: “Higher Education Trends and Enrollment”
• From Encoura: “The Noncredit Market Curse: Adventures in a Parallel Postsecondary Universe”
• TOPcast Episode 123: “Hybridity Predicted and More from CHLOE 7”
• TOPcast Mugs from Zazzle

• Video Version of this Episode!