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CXPA Elevates the Customer Experience with Community

Higher Logic

CXPA and Higher Logic launched the CXPA Community on May 13, 2014. After the CXPA Community launched in 2014, CXPA continued to use another vendor for its corporate website. Leveraging education and certification. CXPA introduced the certification exam in 2012, but did not include any prep materials or courses.

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Dangerous Assumptions About Your Conference Education Part I

Velvet Chainsaw

Assumption 1: Certification For Everyone. Much of our conference education programming is built upon proliferating a similar elitist system—industry designations and certification. Finally, we make them pay a fee every two to five years to keep that certification. Design For How People Learn by Julie Dirksen (2012).

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Flipped Learning: What’s Its Place in the Association Meetings Space?

Associations Now

In a May 2014 blog post on the model, Donna Kastner put it best when she wrote, “What’s particularly intriguing about Flipped Learning is that it recognizes a powerful conference maxim: The smartest people aren’t always on stage. What Is Flipped Learning? They’re often in the room.”. percent are offering flipped classes.

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A Global Satisfaction Index for Measuring Local Member Engagement & Relevance

GlowGlobally

To begin 2014, we are featuring a new MCI white paper authored by Nikki Walker, MCI’s Vice President for its global association management and consulting practice, based in Dubai, UAE. They are very open to learning from their “northern” counterparts and embrace US standards, certifications and renowned speakers and trainers.

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15 Changes in the Learning Business Landscape

Leading Learning

Facebook acquired Oculus in 2014. While credentials like certifications and certificates have been around for a long time, there is now rising interest in them as approaches that require less time and cost significantly less than traditional degree programs. Want to boost your marketing maturity? The Leap in Learning Science.

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Opportunity Knocks – Are You There?

YourMembership

at the start of 2014. According to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report , only 19 of the 30 occupations projected to grow fastest from 2012 to 2022 require some form of postsecondary education for entry. million jobs between 2012 and 2022 accounting for more than half of all new jobs.

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How To Design a Digital Badge Strategy

WBT Systems

Digital Badges are a part of these changes and are set to make a big impact on education and certification programs in 2017. Diplomas, degrees, certification, and skills quickly lose their relevance and become obsolete. 2012, September 12). Dramatic changes have occurred in how learning is recognized, accredited and validated.

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