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The Market for Adult Lifelong Learning

Leading Learning

As The Economist ’s interest in the topic suggests, much of the concern over lifelong learning ties back to the employment market and to business productivity and growth. As a result, there is a thriving and growing global market for lifelong learning. How Big Is the Adult Lifelong Learning Market? Aside from being U.S.-centric,

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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

Forj

We use our knowledge of practical use cases to put the media and marketing hype in perspective. Value-based accreditation: Continuing with the CE credit economy, we note that many CE providers are concerned with competition in the market, which we can describe in economic terms as deflation of the price of CE credit.

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The Importance of an LMS Roadmap When Selecting a Learning Platform

WBT Systems

You want to know if you and your future partner are heading in the same direction, and they haven’t switched their focus to a different market. You want to invest in software that’s flexible enough to adapt to new conditions. Our goal is to deliver software that helps associations provide the best online learning experience possible.

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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. The corporate market is a growing profit center for them—and could be for your association too. WBT shares seven MOOC business model strategies you should definitely steal. Learning business. Membership tiers. to 2:45 p.m.

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How to Prepare a Business Case for a New LMS

WBT Systems

Technical issues: configurations, software upgrades, and security risks. Don’t overlook competing programs from other associations, higher education institutions, MOOCs, and for-profit companies, like LinkedIn, Udemy, and firms in your industry. Reporting limitations. Scalability (or lack of it). Vendor support.

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The Association Business Model: It’s Time For A Massive Overhaul.

Association Success

How can marketing staff be expected to grow multiple product lines on a meager budget with a limited audience? Featured below is research done by The Standish Group’s statistics on software usage. In general, when you look at how few features are used “always or often”, we’re not all that different than the software industry.

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15 Changes in the Learning Business Landscape

Leading Learning

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) was established well before 2007—Salesforce, the company that put SaaS on the map, was founded in 1999—but it took a while for its impact to really be felt broadly, particularly in learning businesses. See e-learning stats for the course creator market here.). The SaaS Explosion. The Creator Economy.

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