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7 Ways to Increase Participation in Online Courses

Leading Learning

Whether these learners are partners, customers, students, or professionals or workers in your target market, they deserve to get a high-quality online course that motivates them to learn throughout the experience. If you are offering online courses , here are a few things you can do to increase participation and keep your learners engaged.

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How to Get Useful Student Feedback on Online Courses

WBT Systems

When you collect useful student feedback on online courses, you can confidently assess and improve the effectiveness of your e-learning programs. Good feedback gives you the data you need to improve courses yourself and to make a case for hiring professional instructional designers to develop courses.

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4 Ways to Elevate Your Next Association E-Learning Course

Fonteva

The last thing you want to do is invest in custom-creating a new e-learning course only to have few members (if any) purchase it. Just like a forgotten instrument, treadmill, or book gathering dust in the corner of your closet, courses that members don’t complete provide little value for your organization. Keep courses updated.

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Medical Groups Push Back on CDC Painkiller Guidelines

Associations Now

New guidelines released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on opioid painkillers have drawn a mixed response from medical organizations. The new CDC guidelines , released last week, state that opioids should be a last-resort treatment for chronic pain, after physical therapy, exercise, and over-the-counter medications.

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12 Ways to Increase Student Participation in Online Discussions

WBT Systems

1: Embed online discussion into course design. Discussions must be built into the course design and tied to learning objectives. Acknowledge the time constraints experienced by full-time professionals who take online courses. 6: Provide guidelines for constructive conversation. 2: Explain why participation is required.

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Improve Student Success with an Online Learning Community

WBT Systems

Do you ever think about your association’s online learners and how they manage to fit your courses into their busy lives? Imagine: after a long day of work, errands, and household chores and duties, they manage to find time to finish the week’s assignments for the online course they’re taking with your association. It’s a lonely life.

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Help Your Speakers Embrace Diversity and Inclusion

Idea Architects

Guidance and Orientation LeadingAge Illinois , like some associations, includes a brief statement in their speaker guidelines “to sensitize speakers to the potential diversity in the audience.” Here are a few examples of what associations are doing to help presenters prepare.

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