- "Recognized forms of post-secondary learning activities within the domain include: degree credit courses by non-traditional students, non-degree career training, college remediation, workforce training, and formal personal enrichment courses (both on-campus and online)."
The process of furthering knowledge and skills beyond initial training or education.
Fundamentals of Continuing Education: This topic covers the importance of continuous learning and the various approaches to continuing education.
Designing and Developing Continuing Education Programs: This topic deals with strategies and techniques for designing and delivering effective continuing education programs.
Needs Assessment: This topic covers the techniques of gathering and analyzing data to identify training gaps and to determine the learning needs of the learners.
Evaluation of Continuing Education Programs: This topic deals with the evaluation techniques for assessing the effectiveness of continuing education programs.
Industry-Specific Continuing Education: This topic covers industry-specific continuing education programs that provide essential knowledge and skills for professionals.
Online Learning and E-learning: This topic deals with the latest trends and advances in online learning and e-learning for professional development.
Professional Certification and Continuing Education: This topic covers the various professional certification programs that require continuing education.
Leadership and Management: This topic covers the fundamental principles of leadership and management that are essential for professional development.
Cross-Cultural Training: This topic deals with training programs that focus on understanding and respecting cultural differences.
Career Development: This topic covers various strategies for planning and managing a successful career.
Communication Skills: This topic covers various communication skills that are essential for professional development.
Technology in Education: This topic covers the use of technology in continuing education and its impact on professional development.
Ethics and Professionalism: This topic covers the ethical and professional standards that are essential for professional development.
Workplace Diversity and Inclusion: This topic covers the importance of diversity and inclusion in the workplace and training programs that address these issues.
Performance Improvement: This topic deals with strategies and approaches for improving performance in the workplace.
Conferences: Held periodically to discuss recent findings or industry trends.
Workshops: Short courses that provide hands-on training in specific skills.
Seminars: Meetings focused on a particular topic or theme.
Online Courses: Courses offered through the internet.
Webinars: Live or recorded seminars conducted over the internet.
In-person Classes: Traditional classroom courses.
Certificate Programs: Programs that award a certificate upon completion of a course or series of courses.
On-the-job training: Training provided by an employer in the workplace.
Mentoring: Being guided by a more experienced colleague for skill development.
Self-directed learning: Individual learning through research and personal study.
Peer review: Receiving feedback on work from peers and colleagues.
Professional association membership: Joining and participating in professional organizations to stay up-to-date on industry news and trends.
Continuing education units (CEUs): A quantitative measure of continuing education activities.
Coaching: Working with an experienced coach to improve specific skills or achieve goals.
- "The term is used mainly in the United States and Canada."
- "General continuing education is similar to adult education, at least in being intended for adult learners, especially those beyond traditional undergraduate college or university age."
- "Frequently, in the United States and Canada continuing education courses are delivered through a division or school of continuing education of a college or university known sometimes as the university extension or extension school."
- "The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development argued, however, that continuing education should be 'fully integrated into institutional life rather than being often regarded as a separate and distinctive operation employing different staff' if it is to feed into mainstream programmes and be given the due recognition deserved by this type of provision."
- "Georgetown University, Michigan State University, and the University of Denver have benefited from non-credit programs as it relates to strengthening partnerships with corporations and government agencies, helping to inform and shape the curriculum for degree programs, and generating revenue to support the academic enterprise."
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- "Formal personal enrichment courses (both on-campus and online)."
- "General continuing education is similar to adult education, at least in being intended for adult learners, especially those beyond traditional undergraduate college or university age."
- "Helping to inform and shape the curriculum for degree programs, and generating revenue to support the academic enterprise."
- "The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development argued, however, that continuing education should be 'fully integrated into institutional life rather than being often regarded as a separate and distinctive operation employing different staff'."
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- "Georgetown University, Michigan State University, and the University of Denver have benefited from non-credit programs as it relates to strengthening partnerships with corporations and government agencies."