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UPCEA Partners with LX Pathways by iDesign

We’ve partnered to help you increase capacity around instructional design

Do you need to increase your team’s capacity around instructional design? Would you like to add instructional design to your skillset?

Great news! UPCEA has recently partnered with iDesign to offer even more online professional development through iDesign’s self-paced learning opportunities, LX Pathways. Our partnership with iDesign extends the continuum of online professional development that UPCEA announced last week.

Instructional Designer Training Through our Partner, iDesign

These competency-based learning options address the role-specific skills required of instructional technologists, learning architects, and online instructors with a focus on quality and leadership in the field and offer the following features:

  • Beginning and advanced levels
  • Online, self-paced, modularized content
  • Learners receive microcredentials upon completion of the associated tracks.

Learn more here, and use our special UPCEA Member-only discount code at lxpathways.com to receive 10% off.

Other UPCEA Updates + Blogs

Why Do Students Leave College Before Finishing? New Study Looks at Common Scenarios. (EdSurge)

December 3, 2021

When a student stops out of college before getting a degree, the college should act fast if it wants to…

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42% of stopped-out young adults cited financial reasons for leaving college, survey finds (Higher Ed Dive)

December 2, 2021

[…] For college administrators, reenrolling students starts with acknowledging that students are stopping out in the first place, said Jim…

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Get Involved with UPCEA

Professional development isn't just about attending sessions. Get involved with UPCEA to meet members from other institutions, share the great work your institution is doing, and hone your own skills. From submitting a session proposal for a conference or an article for a publication to serving as a volunteer on a conference planning committee, there are as many ways to engage with us!

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Awards of Excellence

Since 1953, UPCEA has recognized its members' outstanding contributions to the Association and the field, as well as their achievements in innovative programming, marketing and promotion, community development and services, research and publications, and many other areas.