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Focus on Millennial Learners to Benefit Members of All Ages

WBT Systems

Psychological research from Christy Price, published in 2009 described how to engage millennial learners: Make your class multimedia, incorporating more variety and shorter content to allow students to multitask. So it seems that Price is right. Millennial learners prefer opportunities for active and collaborative learning.

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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

Forj

As Mark Iafrate of Accredible , an evangelist for badges, has suggested, these standards could continue to exist in a layered system that rests atop distributed ledgers. 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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How PCNA Leverages Freestone LMS to Successfully Stream their Hybrid Annual Conference

Freestone

Why PCNA chose Freestone to stream its annual conference Since 2015, PCNA has conducted its largest annual event, the Annual Cardiovascular Symposium. PCNA sets the virtual Symposium attendee price lower than the in-person experience (largely due to the cost of food). Freestone enhances the hybrid learning experience.

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NAASF Crowdsources Customer Support and Advocacy with Online Community

Higher Logic

NAASF recognized a communication challenge and set out to develop a better system for its franchisees to gather and share knowledge. Upon launching the new community in February, 2015, NAASF set a primary goal to get as many franchisee members as possible to begin participating. Moving from In-Person to Virtual "Town Hall Meetings".

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Traffic Jam: Associations React to Urban Mobility Scorecard

Associations Now

An improving job market and cheaper gas prices are nothing to complain about. Increased traffic congestion resulting from growing urban populations and lower fuel prices are outpacing the nation’s ability to build infrastructure.”. — ASCE Headquarters (@ASCETweets) August 27, 2015.

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Study: Business Travel and Its Costs Are on the Rise

Associations Now

And when they’re booking those itineraries, many employees are turning to third-party tools instead of corporate booking systems. As TRIPBAM CEO Steve Reynolds told Skift , “A hotel general manager is thinking, ‘if I could fill every room at my hotel for whatever price, why would I sell it any lower?’ billion, in 2015.

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The Case for Incremental Dues Changes

Associations Now

” Between 2008 and 2015, the number of associations raising dues annually rose from 18 percent to 25 percent overall, and MGI’s 2015 research found 31 percent of associations with renewal rates over 80 percent raise their dues annually, and 33 percent of trade associations do so.

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