Creating a Microcredential Course

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How It’s Made: Creating a Microcredential Course

The ILCI team is currently recruiting UNO faculty and staff to serve as Course Developers for high-priority microcredential topics. Taking roughly six months from start to finish, creating a microcredential course includes meetings, research, development, and more.

The process is as follows and a graphical representation is below:

1. Step One: Explore the topics we’re interested in developing microcredential courses on. These topics are informed by market research. You can also suggest a topic for us to research through this form.

2. Step Two: Submit this form to signal your interest in serving as a microcredential course developer.
   1. After this is submitted, a form will be sent to your department chair for approval.
   2. After their approval, a form will be sent to your dean for final approval.

3. Step Three: Once we receive final approval from your college or unit, ILCI will reach out for a course kickoff meeting where we’ll discuss the process and logistics at depth. We’ll also kickoff the course outlining process.

4. Step Four: Once your course outline is complete and approved, we’ll execute an MOU and begin a four-month course development process.

Course Topics Under Exploration:

Interested in developing a course? Fill out the request for proposals. Need more details? Depending on your relationship with the university (internal or external), view the details in the section below.

Use Your Expertise to Develop a Course: UNO Staff and Faculty

What are those tangible skills that you’ve noticed are making graduates more and more competitive in your field of study? We want to know.

The caliber of UNO’s reputation is tied to its nationally renowned faculty and staff. Ensuring their expertise is at the core of each offering distinguishes these courses from other options on the market — and guarantees that learners will be met with UNO’s high standards and community-centered values in every microcredential course they take.

Here’s how it works: To author a microcredential course (or co-author with an industry subject matter expert “SME”), email Innovate@unomaha.edu to discuss partnership details and the microcredential course creation process.

Benefits:

• Be noted in the course credits as a creator.
• Leverage a new, broad platform for applied research + expertise.
• Receive ongoing revenue share (subject to negotiation with your college or unit).
• Receive course development and/or course instruction stipend to honor efforts creating and/or instructing the course.

Requirements: Ability to fulfill the duties of a microcredential Course Developer (full Course Developer Job Description available upon request). Of note: Ability to devote several hours per week throughout four months to the development of learning objectives and course content.

Use Your Expertise to Develop a Course: Industry Professional or Employer

You see industry and market needs every day—and you have something that you think others should learn. We want to know what that is.

We want to partner with regional employers, community organizations, and professionals responsible for the continued development of their people.

Here’s how it works: To co-author a microcredential course with a UNO subject matter expert, email Innovate@unomaha.edu to discuss partnership details and the microcredential course creation process.

Benefits:

• Develop course content that is deeply aligned with the organization's (as well as the region's) workforce needs.
• Enjoy enhanced brand visibility + marketing: Co-branded badges, video cameos with organizational leadership, branded case studies, and more.
• Receive ongoing revenue share (at least 10% of gross revenue; issued after each run of the course).
• Receive course development and/or course instruction stipends for a teammate(s) who partner on course development and/or instruction.

Requirements: Qualified team member with the ability to fulfill the duties of a microcredential Course Developer (full Course Developer Job Description coming soon). Ability to devote several hours per week throughout four months to the development of learning objectives and course content.

Employee Development, Meet Microcredentials

Looking to partner with UNO for enterprise professional development? We’d love to talk.

You know your industry, and we know learning. Our microcredential courses are flexible and provide a perfect opportunity to upskill and prepare your employees for the future of work.

Identify a Learning Need

What are the skills and competencies that your organization wants to be known for? Identify those needs and search through our course offerings.

Enroll a Specific Team or Group

Whether it’s organization-wide, for managers, or a particular team—we can help you find the right course for your employees.

Support Continued Development

Give employees a way to display their learning badges. This support can incentivize learning the skills that keep your organization on the cutting edge.

Interested? Email Innovate@unomaha.edu to talk about investing in a block of microcredential courses bulk and subscription pricing; and how we can partner with your organization.