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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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The Many Benefits of Selling Online Education to Corporate Members

WBT Systems

Even MOOCs have caught on. Forbes reports that “Coursera has about 500 corporate customers today, up from 30 last year, with bookings growth of 400 percent, compared to 70 percent growth among Coursera’s paying users overall.”. Unreliable technology infrastructure. Relevant real world education.

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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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Association Brain Food: 7.1.22

Reid All About it

He pulls out association-relevant findings from the successes of MOOCs, LinkedIn Learning, Khan Academy, The Great Courses, Udemy, and Degreed. A weekly conversation about meeting and event technology, including software, hardware, and audiovisual for in-person and online events. Host: Association Women Technology Champions.

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Can Associations Corner the Education Market?

Associations Now

In their book A+ Solution: How America’s Professional Societies and Trade Associations Can Solve the Nation’s Workforce Skills Crisis, John Bell, founder and CEO of online-career-center provider Boxwood Technology, Inc., Take massive open online courses, or MOOCs, for example.

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What does the collaborative economy mean for associations?

Mizz Information

The whole point of the collaborative economy is the crowd becoming the company, therefore the need for middlemen like organizations to put on conferences is presumably decreased if the crowd can self-assemble and put on their own conferences or collaborate via Hangouts or other technologies. Especially books and publications.

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Help! My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd

Beth Kanter

Google offers the free MOOC called “ Google Analytics Academy.” Leap of Reason Books (Free download). IdealWare offers a number of data related webinar courses and a free nonprofit data workbook. Leap of Reason offers toolkits for boards, nonprofits, and foundations on “do it yourself” outcomes based measurement.