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10 Secrets of Online Course Design from Award-Winning MOOCs

WBT Systems

If you want to see engaging, transformative online course design in action, add a little poetry to your life. An online Coursera course, Modern American Poetry , aka ModPo, is one of the 50 most popular MOOCs of all time. But Filreis and his merry band of teaching assistants (TAs) turbo-charged the usual MOOC formula.

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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. Innovation Trigger. It’s a great attractor for learning experiences at conferences and multi-day live courses.

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A Big Course From a Small Association

Associations Now

One executive at a state association has taken the lead on educating healthcare workers on a pressing national issue via a MOOC. For Jan Grimes, it’s meant building a lot of partnerships and putting together a must-attend online course. Each organization helps by providing speakers and expertise. Maybe it’s a membership drive.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 10.7.16

Reid All About it

Since I’ve been on an education kick lately, here’s an example of curation by a for-profit organization. Class Central has reviewed and compiled a list of The Best Intro to Programming Courses for Data Science. Learn the 5 keys to successful innovation; how to do event audits; and how one association transformed its event.

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Association Brain Food: 5.12.23

Reid All About it

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. No matter the size or type of your association, and no matter your current role, see how you, too, can distinguish and propel your organization.

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How Associations Can Transform Higher Education

Reid All About it

Here are some of the courses I’d require: Strategic thinking and goal-setting. 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. Soft skills to improve social and emotional intelligence (EQ).

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 7.21.17

Reid All About it

A few years ago I took an excellent online Coursera course, Modern American Poetry. LMS provider WBT Systems writes about instructional design innovations that associations could borrow from “ModPo” and a few other award-winning MOOCs. If your organization has a webinar scheduled in the near future, please send me the link.

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