For Colleges and Universities: Offering Continuing Education Units (CEUs) with Our Courses

Background

Colleges and universities have increasingly recognized new forms of distance education using the Internet to reach larger segments of learners than more traditional forms of education. In the past, distance education was mostly correspondence courses where professors and their students sent assignments and homework to each other through the mail.

Many institutions of higher education are currently only using the Internet to take the place of the post office in distance education causing the structure of the courses to remain the same. However, these institutions are realizing highly interactive courses developed to teach content and skills are an effective teaching tool.

By combining the use of the Internet with highly interactive courses, colleges and universities can better fulfill their mission to provide quality education and make learning more enriching hopefully enticing more students to register for courses

Advantages of Our Courses for Colleges and Universities

Colleges and universities are not interested in simply granting CEUs. The loftier mission of reaching learners beyond the campus is their real goal, and they have recognized e-Learning as a valid means to accomplish their goal. Most colleges and universities understand many potential students are not interested in receiving a degree, but are seeking training in a specific area of technology. The courses at getskilled.com fulfill that need and attract non-traditional students who live far away from campus, and want to learn on their own time in their own environment.

Colleges and universities are also interested in offering the courses to their own employees for staff development. A partnership with getskilled.com and MindLeaders can fulfill that requirement. However, the greatest advantage we offer colleges and universities is providing existing course content.

Developing quality courses like ours is expensive and time-consuming. Since Continuing Education Departments are expected to be profitable, our existing curriculum should be very appealing to them.

Universities are also quite willing to grant CEUs as a bi-product of their academic mission, but their emphasis is always on the content and what is to be learned. This is also to our advantage.

Explanation of the CEU Process

Colleges and universities generally grant CEUs by determining "seat time" of the learner. Typically the learner attends classes, workshops or conferences. Based upon the number of hours the learner attends classes, CEUs are granted. Learners are awarded CEUs by the providers once establishing attendance for the designated time period.

One Continuing Education Unit is defined as ten (10) contact hours of participation in an organized continuing education experience under responsible sponsorship and qualified instruction.

Receiving CEUs for courses at getskilled.com is different since the learner completes the course away from a site. CEU providers are typically willing to grant the CEUs based upon a 70% score on each unit test for a course.

Documents

The number of CEUs is based on the typical time needed to complete each course. We can provide application and information forms which can be modified to satisfy any college or university requirement.

More Information:

CEU FAQ - What are Continuing Education Units? How can you earn them? Read our Frequently Asked Questions document for the answers you need.