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Learning from Big Learning: 15 Lessons

Leading Learning

Venture capital firms have jumped back into the game head first, massive open online course (MOOC) providers, originally rooted in universities, have gone public or been bought , and big Web firms like LinkedIn and Google have become major players. The MOOC 3. Yes, I know: most people sign up for MOOCs and never complete them.

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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

Forj

It’s a great attractor for learning experiences at conferences and multi-day live courses. If you are just building your first set of online courses and implementing your first (traditional) LMS, it’s probably not the time to develop a 12-tiered system of subscription packages. All the MOOCs out there. Plateau of Productivity.

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A Big Course From a Small Association

Associations Now

One executive at a state association has taken the lead on educating healthcare workers on a pressing national issue via a MOOC. For Jan Grimes, it’s meant building a lot of partnerships and putting together a must-attend online course. But ultimately the job of coordinating all the course has fallen to Grimes.

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The Market for Adult Lifelong Learning

Leading Learning

As an example, Teachable , one of the major online course platforms, claims more than 100,000 creators who have earned more than USD 500 million to date through courses and coaching. Coursera and edX, the two largest and most recognizable massive open online course (MOOC) providers, were both founded in 2012.

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15 Changes in the Learning Business Landscape

Leading Learning

Of course, as will be the case with a number of the changes we discuss here, the ease with which video can now be produced and distributed means there is a lot of it out there, so the stakes are much higher to create video that stands out and is truly effective. See e-learning stats for the course creator market here.).

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Deaf Advocates Sue Harvard, MIT For Lack of Online Closed Captioning

Associations Now

The National Association of the Deaf alleges that Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are violating the Americans With Disabilities Act by failing to make their online course offerings accessible to individuals who are deaf and hard of hearing. Advocates for the deaf and hard of hearing are suing two top-tier U.S.

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Wednesday Buzz: Entering the World of Distributed Content

Associations Now

— Deirdre Reid (@deirdrereid) March 25, 2015. The 2015 Great Ideas Conference may have come to a close earlier this month, but leaders in the association world are still drawing insights from the event. “A MOOC isn’t a webinar and it’s not a regurgitation of a PowerPoint presentation.” link] #assnchat.

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