Online Learning & Continuing Education

Online Learning & Continuing Education (OCE) is a central U of A service unit that partners with colleges, faculties, and external partners to develop and deliver online courses, programs, and non-credit micro-credentials. 

OCE leverages its deep expertise, skills, and experience to build high-quality and scalable online offerings to enable the U of A to expand its enrolment capacity, reach new student populations, and provide accessible pathways into U of A offerings.

From the creation of new online courses, programs, and micro-credentials, to the expansion of existing courses online, OCE supports our college and faculty partners from ideation to launch.

OCE serves its College and Faculty partners by providing:

• Research and reporting on trends and shifts in online learning and continuing education
• Strategic consultation for online learning ideation, modality selection, pricing, and potential demand
• Access to market research tools through Hanover Research and Vicinity
• Design and develop prioritized, high-quality online programming 
• Research-informed best practices and processes for online course design
• Online course quality reviews aligned to industry-recognized quality standards
• Team of dedicated experts in course and program administration, business development, project management, instructional design, and learning experience development in the credit and non-credit space.
• Turnkey digital infrastructure to enable non-credit course/program discovery, registration and payment, management of non-credit learner records, and direct integration with the U of A’s non-credit Canvas LMS instance