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The Long Road to Standards Adoption

Virtual

With its much-anticipated announcement this week, Apple became the latest and the last of the leading smartphone vendors to adopt Near Field Communication or NFC technology. The company announced NFC will be in its forthcoming iPhone 6 models and will become the enabling technology for a new mobile payment ecosystem called Apple Pay.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 3.6.20

Reid All About it

Tanya Basu at MIT Technology Review writes about private micro-networks , like Cocoon, which some believe are the future of connecting. “…[S]uch micro-networks and the control they offer might redefine how we think about and use social media in the next decade, whether it is Cocoon or another app that follows in its wake.”. 1 CAE credit.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 3.13.20

Reid All About it

I like the curated approach of the MIT Technology Review’s Coronavirus Tech Report. Agnes Amos-Coleman, MBA, CMP, education, conference, event, certification consultant, Amos-Coleman. Presenter: Katie Babbili, Learning Technology Analyst, BenchPrep. Lessons Learned from Toronto’s 2003 SARS Outbreak. Tue 3/17 at 12 p.m. –

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Interview with an Expert Series: Associate Executive Director, Myke Kudlas

Blue Sky eLearn

I first took an interest in eLearning in 2001, but became more involved in 2003, when I was the Program Director for the Mayo Clinic Jacksonville Radiography Program. The course was designed to help Radiologic Technologists prepare for the Computed Tomography (CT) certification exam. How long have you been involved with eLearning?

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15 Changes in the Learning Business Landscape

Leading Learning

All the factors above have led to the emergence of what has become known as the “ creator economy ,” basically a technology-enabled business environment in which individual creators are able to generate revenue from their content. See this ReviewMyLMS post for more on the cost to create e-learning. The Creator Economy.

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Today’s Conference Education Model Was Created For An Economy That No Longer Exists

Velvet Chainsaw

It is usually devoted to information transfer through a lecture or panel, rote learning and memorization of facts and figures to pass a certification test. The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change: Am Empirical Exploration.” Levy and Murnane, Quarterly Journal of Economics 118 (2003).