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Communities of Practice

Each Community of Practice is a group of Association members organized around a professional function or critical issue area. Each Community has a defined mission, target membership, and a commitment to provide specified services to its members. These services are of a professional development nature such as newsletters, listservs, and seminars, and is focused on information sharing. Each Community of Practice presents program sessions and other activities at the Association's Annual Conference.

Every UCEA professional member is entitled to participate in two Communities of Practice as part of the basic Professional Membership; additional Communities of Practice may be selected for an additional fee.

The thirteen Communities of Practice are described below. In addition, you may click on the name of the Community of Practice to access its home page or download the April 2007 Commission/Community of Practice Handbook (PDF)

Conferences and Professional Programs

Members of this Community of Practice are concerned with:

• planning, marketing, and managing conferences and professional programs
• utilizing the Internet to support program goals
• managing residential conference centers

Distance Learning

Members of this Community of Practice are concerned with:

• creating and managing virtual learning environments
• instructional design
• planning the use of instructional technologies
• developing learner support systems and advising services
• inter-institutional articulation and partnerships
• managing off-campus library services and copyright matters
• legislation and policies impacting higher education

Financial Management

Members of this Community of Practice are concerned with:

• C.E. budgeting
• managing C.E. financial systems and grants/contracts
• building partnerships
• promoting entrepreneurship
• benchmarking and strategic planning
• human resource management and development

Futures and Change

Members of this Community of Practice are concerned with:

• environmental scanning
• higher education restructuring
• interfacing with the global education economy
• inter-institutional cooperation

Information Resources Management

Members of this Community of Practice are concerned with:

• developing information architectures for C.E.
• planning for the integration of technology
• providing student services and off-campus library services
• managing innovation

Liberal Learning

Members of this Community of Practice are concerned with:

• masters of liberal studies programs
• museum continuing education
• alumni continuing education
• programs in humanities, arts, and sciences
• summer session and youth programs
• ESL programs

Markets and Publications

Members of this Community of Practice are concerned with:

• developing marketing plans/strategies
• database marketing
• relationship marketing
• e-commerce
• market research
• advertising and publications production
• customer service

Military Education

Members of this Community of Practice are concerned with:

• partnerships between higher education and the military services
• designing instruction and learning formats for the military
• quality assurance systems
• prior learning assessment

Outreach and Engagement

Members of this Community of Practice are concerned with:

• mutual exchange of intellectual resources and expertise between the university and the broader external community of government agencies, business, non-profit organizations, community groups, and individuals
• the role of partnerships: who delivers the services? how are faculty, staff and students engaged and committed to this work? how can faculty and staff participation be evaluated and rewarded?
• organizing an institutional agenda related with outreach and engagement and determining the associated set of products and services

Quality Assurance

Members of this Community of Practice are concerned with:

• evaluating programs
• assessing learning outcomes
• preparing for accreditation and unit reviews
• credentialling
• assessing prior learning
• faculty development

Research

Members of this Community of Practice are concerned with:

• networking among researchers in continuing higher education
• utilization of research findings by Association members
• recognition of excellence in research within continuing higher education

Student and Customer Services

Members of this Community of Practice are concerned with:

• student/customer services as their primary task
• students in both credit and noncredit areas
• serving university and corporate audiences

Summer, Weekend, and Off-Campus Programs

Members of this Community of Practice are concerned with:

• policies and practices relevant to summer, weekend, intersession, and off-campus programming, as well as noncredit and certificate programs
• identification of issues and concerns shaping the future of these program areas
• greater dissemination of information to advance programming goals within these areas

Workforce and Economic Development

Members of this Community of Practice are concerned with:

• tracking employment trends
• benchmarking
• forging educational partnerships
• assessing needs and establishing core workplace competencies
• designing workforce learning using diverse delivery modes