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Wednesday Buzz: Use MOOCs to Build Community

Associations Now

Does your association provide massive open online courses (MOOCs) or virtual continuing education courses to members? To celebrate Guinea Pig Appreciation Day on July 16, the American Pet Products Association is sharing housing and nutrition information for guinea pig owners. Taking an online class can be solitary experience.

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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

Forj

What should bother us is the possibility of lower educational value being associated with the flood of cheap CE “products” into the market. And we wouldn’t expect virtual reality to be a popular on-demand product until the required devices become more widely owned. Plateau of Productivity. All the MOOCs out there.

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The State of Association E-Learning: Cloudy with a Chance of Sunshine

WBT Systems

Develop processes for e-learning product development and pricing. A deeper dive into the survey reveals additional missed opportunities for associations: 66% of survey participants do not have a formal, documented product development process for e-learning programs. How are they making decisions with such a willy-nilly approach?

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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. I’m happy to feature it as long as it’s not too product-centric. Learning business. Membership tiers. Newsletters. But do you? on the same day.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 10.7.16

Reid All About it

We all need help dealing with the raging river (not gentle stream) of information coming at us every day. Associations are perfectly placed to help us sift through and select the best information to read or consult. I’ll be happy to feature it as long as it’s not too product-centric. Host: RMK Productions. Stephanie A.

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The Importance of an LMS Roadmap When Selecting a Learning Platform

WBT Systems

A product roadmap is the vendor’s plan for their software’s continual improvement. They have a public version of their roadmap that illustrates their product vision as well as an internal version that lays out the details of their plan for developers and other staff. LMS roadmap: are promises delivered? Competition is increasing.

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Improve Student Success with an Online Learning Community

WBT Systems

Active learning helps information go from short-term to long-term memory. Information doesn’t stick when it’s received passively and nothing further is done to recall it. For information to become knowledge, learners must engage in activities that help them make meaning of the content they’ve digested.

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