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Scaling Continuing Education Programs with Limited Resources

Jones College’s Online Workforce College goal was to create bite-sized training modules that could be stacked together for a comprehensive skills training program. Find out how Eduframe helped OWC to achieve their continuing education goals

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The institution

Get to know Online Workforce College

Online Workforce College, based out of Jones County Junior College is a fully-online, self-paced learning platform. OWC is designed to provide quality, in-demand, affordable online skills training to individuals to gain a competitive advantage in the workplace leading to improved quality of life, as well as providing employers with a more productive and educated workforce.

Location: Ellisville, Mississippi | Online

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Eduframe & OWC (2025)

2

Members of staff

130,000

Issued credentials over 3 years

challenge

Scaling skills training program with limited resources

Online Workforce College’s goal was to create bite-sized training modules that could be stacked together for a comprehensive skills training program. The idea behind stackable micro-credentials is to provide skills training modules for people that lack the resources to pursue fulltime education.

To develop this, OWC needed 3 crucial pieces: find a way for a small team to manage classes and a large amount of people fully online, a strong learning management system, and a digital credentialing solution.

Manage

Manage classes, administrators, teachers & classroom resources

Automate

Automate processes & digital credentialing

Integrate

Integrate with their Canvas LMS & different software such as Salesforce

challenge in depth

Scaling with Impact: Insights from Jones College’s OWC on Revenue, Accessibility, and Lifelong Learning

Scaling with Impact: Balancing Accessibility and Efficiency

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Expanding Access to Lifelong Learning - Scaling Continuing Education

From Learning to Earning: Jones College’s Online Workforce College Training Revolution

The solution

The Continuing Education Storefront & SIS for Canvas LMS

OWC’s search has led them to Eduframe, the continuing education storefront & SIS for Canvas LMS. Eduframe allows educators to engage prospective students with a stunning storefront, capitalizes on key trends such as micro-credentials & stackable, personalized programs, and provides a 360-degree overview of non-traditional learners.

Eduframe has helped OWC to deliver a great learner experience: from the first time seeing the website & enrollment, all the way through their student portal and the learning process in Canvas.

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“Having a conversation where we can bring value to Eduframe by offering ideas, is the kind of relationship we like to have with our partners. It’s not just Jones College to a vendor, but a partner to partner where we’re both bringing value to each other. I really appreciate what we’ve experienced this past year.”

Michael Trest, Dean of the Online Workforce College at Jones College

The Results

Enhanced Learner Experience from Enrollment to Credential

SCALABILITY

Eduframe provided OWC with a scalable solution for course management and registration. As OWC’s enrollment numbers continue to grow, Eduframe is able to keep providing a seamless experience for learners, whilst cutting down the time spent on administrative tasks. This allows OWC to increase enrollment without the corresponding overhead.

INTEGRATIONS

The fact that Drieam is an official Instructure partner whose products are purpose-built for Canvas greatly helped in their migration from the previous course catalog software. Additionally, Eduframe has allowed OWC to integrate with Salesforce to further streamline processes, eliminate manual tasks, and ensure operational efficiency whilst maintaining a 360 degree overview of all learners.

EXTENSIVE API DOCUMENTATION

Eduframe’s well-documented open API enabled OWC to customize and tailor the solution to accommodate edge cases.

AUTOMATED STUDENT JOURNEY: FROM WEBSITE TO CREDENTIAL

Eduframe facilitated the enrollment for 800 individual courses offered by OWC and provided automation of digital credentialing. Eduframe’s robustness in handling these operations demonstrated it’s the right tool to support OWC’s growth.

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OWC Named a Finalist at the 1EdTech Learning Impact Awards!

Jones College’s Online Workforce College (OWC) has been selected as a finalist for the 2025 1EdTech Learning Impact Awards.

This recognition celebrates OWC’s innovative, scalable, and learner-centered approach to workforce development, built in partnership with Eduframe, Canvas, Canvas Credentials, and Salesforce. With over 130,000 digital credentials issued and 4,000 learners served annually by a lean two-person team, OWC is proving what’s possible with the right tools and vision.

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