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Association Brain Food: 5.12.23

Reid All About it

I’m tired of experiencing FOMO for this one, so I’ve already got my flight booked for Denver. WBT Systems describes how for-profit learning platforms, like the MOOCs Coursera and EdX, make their money. WBT shares seven MOOC business model strategies you should definitely steal. Learning business. Membership tiers.

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Remember the 3 E’s When Marketing Educational Programs

WBT Systems

Besides other associations, you now have online professional platforms like LinkedIn (now owned by Microsoft) and Udacity to worry about, plus all the MOOCs like Coursera and EdX. Self-published authors have become millionaires by giving away the first book in a series for free because readers will come back and pay for subsequent books.

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Reads of the Week: September 14, 2012

Reid All About it

The New Yorker ran a powerful excerpt from Salman Rushdie ’s forthcoming book: The Disappeared: How the Fatwa Changed a Life. I’ve only read one book by Rushdie – Midnight’s Children – and what a book it was, I highly recommend it. I’m curious to see how effective and enjoyable a MOOC is – that’s a massive online open course.

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How to Continue the Conference Learning Experience

WBT Systems

Start an online book club. Select books written by this year’s and next year’s speakers. Follow the format of popular MOOCs : Share a discussion guide. Live-stream panel discussions. Invite audience participation via phone, web-conferencing chat, and social media.

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How Associations Can Transform Higher Education

Reid All About it

Kevin Kelly, from his book, The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future ). Thanks to MOOCs , many people around the world are patching together a college-level education by taking classes from Brown, Penn, UVA, Harvard and other respected universities. Right now, this minute.

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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. billion in 2015. To a certain extent, such dialogue and collaboration already exist.

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Friday Top 5

Spark Consulting

You aren’t always going to be fully booked. ” But it can also be “I want to take a MOOC” or catch up on your reading or write articles or revamp your CRM system or refresh your website or whatever. Take it, and don’t feel guilty. And you need to take time off.

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