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The State of the MOOC: What Associations Should Know

Associations Now

Massive open online courses, or MOOCs, have been around long enough that some strong takeaways are starting to show themselves. Read on to see what Harvard and MIT have learned about MOOCs—and what your association should keep in mind. percent received a certificate. Drop-off numbers tend to be large: Of the 4.45

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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

Forj

As always, we try to use this blog post to speak from our experience as a learning technology partner to organizations that provide continuing education and professional development. In eLearning, we are at the very start of the hype curve with distributed ledgers: we can imagine the technology solving one of our recurring problems.

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Learning from Big Learning: 15 Lessons

Leading Learning

Venture capital firms have jumped back into the game head first, massive open online course (MOOC) providers, originally rooted in universities, have gone public or been bought , and big Web firms like LinkedIn and Google have become major players. The MOOC 3. Yes, I know: most people sign up for MOOCs and never complete them.

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8 New Ideas for Engaging Online Students

WBT Systems

An online instructor must understand not only how learners learn but also how to leverage technology to help them take in and retain information. The course you deliver in 2018 should not be the same course you delivered in 2016. 10 Secrets of Online Course Design from Award-Winning MOOCs. 5: Regularly update course content.

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The Many Benefits of Selling Online Education to Corporate Members

WBT Systems

Even MOOCs have caught on. Coursera signaled its shift in focus from individuals to corporations when they launched Coursera for Business in August 2016—“a powerful way to help leading companies around the world address the rapidly evolving training and development needs of their employees.”. Unreliable technology infrastructure.

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The Market for Adult Lifelong Learning

Leading Learning

From YouTube videos to social media communities to the age-old institution of local book groups, lifelong learning permeates nearly all aspects of our lives whether we are conscious of it or not—and technology has multiplied the options exponentially. Advances in technology have been particularly important for this group.

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15 Changes in the Learning Business Landscape

Leading Learning

Facebook (founded 2004), LinkedIn (2002), and Twitter (2006) were still in their infancy at the point when we founded Tagoras, and sites like Instagram (2010) and TikTok (2016) had yet to come along. That same year saw the launch of Barbara Oakley’s massive open online course, or MOOC, Learning How to Learn , on Coursera.

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