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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. These intimate, informal gatherings are designed to help you build your network and connect with the AWTC community. Learning business.

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The Many Benefits of Selling Online Education to Corporate Members

WBT Systems

Even MOOCs have caught on. Your association is already a trusted source of information in your industry. Without direction, they might choose generic management seminars of no value instead of spending their time (and employer’s money) on relevant, high-quality online education like yours. Relevant real world education.

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What Will Associations Monetize In The Future?

Velvet Chainsaw

According to ASAE’s research for The Decision To Learn , people rate professional development and education, second only to access to up-to-date information, as the most important role their association plays in their industry profession. Information Delivery (Lectures, Panels, Training) Seeing Increased Stress.

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The Market for Adult Lifelong Learning

Leading Learning

Information may want to be free, as some have suggested, and knowledge may be invaluable, but it became clear long ago that there is money to be made from all this learning activity. So it’s important to understand our perspective, which informs all that is written in this piece. It is not limited to adulthood or late adulthood.

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15 Changes in the Learning Business Landscape

Leading Learning

For learning businesses, it represents a tremendous opportunity for supporting social and informal learning, both of which are generally regarded as responsible for much, much more of our learning than formal education and training experiences are Informal learning. The SaaS Explosion. Access our interview with Peter C. Taylor here.).

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