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Rule Your Market—Blue Ocean Strategy Sidesteps the Sharks

.orgSource

It offers the audience a product that is not available elsewhere with a ticket price that sits in between the circus and a Broadway show. Pricing is another factor contributing to rough waters. Members are seeking usefulness at the right price tag. The organization wanted to create a user-friendly certification process.

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The Lifelong Learner’s Guide to Success: Future Proofing Your Career, Part One

Blue Sky eLearn

By 2015, that number had actually decreased to $50,219! Professional associations provide certifications, micro-credentialing, and other programs that can help you grow your skillset on your own schedule, and typically for a lower price. The same can’t be said for starting salaries. Crazy, right?

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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

Forj

When a learner accumulates a sufficient balance of CE credits over a certain span of time, she achieves maintenance of certification. Less abstractly, the CE business of non-profit associations is threatened by for-profit CE providers that undercut the associations’ prices.

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The Lifelong Learner’s Guide to Success: Future-Proofing Your Career; Part One

Blue Sky eLearn

By 2015, that number had actually decreased to $50,219! Professional associations provide certifications, micro-credentialing, and other programs that can help you grow your skillset on your own schedule, and typically for a lower price. The same can’t be said for starting salaries. Crazy, right?

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CXPA Elevates the Customer Experience with Community

Higher Logic

After finding there wasn’t any software in the right price range, CXPA saw Higher Logic and partner eConverse’s web design in action at the annual Super Forum conference in 2015. Leveraging education and certification. CXPA introduced the certification exam in 2012, but did not include any prep materials or courses.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 9.30.16

Reid All About it

Its first office outside North America was opened in Mumbai, India in 2015. Learn the pros and cons of offering micro-credentials, where micro-credentials fit in the ecosystem of professional development, ethical and practical considerations, and the impact a micro-credential could have on your existing certification program.

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Thinking of a Tech-Minded Benefit? Put Utility First

Associations Now

Maybe they look like apps designed around certification. In 2015, for example, Microsoft started offering a code editor to developers called Visual Studio Code , which effectively makes it easier to program for different devices, for free to the public—and not just on Windows, either. Winning Over a Desired Audience.

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