The Office of Professional Education supports the land-grant mission of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign by coordinating its offering of certificate programs, professional masters degrees, continuing education, workforce development and other educational opportunities to its current and future students, alumni and the general public. The Office for Professional Education coordinates professional education offerings across the university, including non-credit courses and certificates, credit-bearing courses and certificates and professional masters programs. These include…
Certificate programs, including non-credit courses and certificates, non-degree credit-bearing certificates at the graduate and undergraduate level, and the Graduate Certificate, which is an IBHE-approved post-baccalaureate certificate eligible for federal financial aid.
The Accredible digital credentialling platform, available for no additional cost to all of our certificate programs, to signal to a learner’s friends, family and employer the knowledge and skills represented by a certificate.
The Canvas Catalog platform that offers non-credit courses to the general public using a separate instance of the Canvas LMS already used by our faculty for offering credit-bearing courses. Canvas Catalog courses are non-credit, but can be used to offer Continuing Education Units (CEU), Professional Development Hours (PDH) or Medical Continuing Education (MCE) when accredited by discipline-specific professional organizations.
The Coursera platform for offering non-credit courses and specialization certificate programs to its online community of over 100 million learners.