Creating a Microcredential Course

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How It’s Made: Creating a Microcredential Course

Taking roughly six months from start to finish, creating a microcredential course begins with emailing Ana Lopez Shalla. This is followed by meetings, research, development, and more.

The process is as follows:

1. Topic Identification: UNO team identifies topics in an ongoing manner in one of two ways: market research and/or referrals.
2. Course Developer Identification: If a Course Developer proposed the topic, the UNO team will begin the exploration process with them. If the topic is without a pre-identified Course Developer, the UNO team recruits across campus and throughout the community to find one.
3. Exploratory Meeting: UNO team meets with prospective Course Developers to discuss microcredential standards and development process as well as their vision for the course.
4. Orientation: Course Developers complete the course.
5. Course Outlining: UNO team presents the standards and best practices for course outlining, a process that takes prospective Course Developers two weeks to one month to complete.
6. MOU Execution: Once the course outline has been completed and approved, an MOU is signed that dictates the terms of development, instruction and revenue sharing.
7. Course Development: Course Developers work with UNO’s team of instructional and graphic designers to create a cutting-edge offering over the course of four months.
8. Course Marketing: Done in conjunction with UNO’s Marketing and Communications team, marketing is course specific and will be done organically via University networks and via paid advertising. Course Developers can aid course marketing efforts by spreading the word through their networks.
9. Course Launch: Students enroll, skills are gained, badges are issued. Course Developers may help to facilitate the course, but the UNO team hopes to secure graduate assistants as an additional resource.

Interested in developing a course? Email Ana Lopez Shalla to express your interest and she will follow up with you. 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 Ana Lopez Shalla 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 Ana Lopez Shalla 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 Ana Lopez Shalla to talk about investing in a block of microcredential courses bulk and subscription pricing; and how we can partner with your organization.