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10 Secrets of Online Course Design from Award-Winning MOOCs

WBT Systems

An online Coursera course, Modern American Poetry , aka ModPo, is one of the 50 most popular MOOCs of all time. It’s taught by Professor Al Filreis of the University of Pennsylvania who received Coursera’s 2016 Transformation Award for helping 140,000 students transform their lives. 1 – Build community in advance.

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The State of the MOOC: What Associations Should Know

Associations Now

Massive open online courses, or MOOCs, have been around long enough that some strong takeaways are starting to show themselves. Read on to see what Harvard and MIT have learned about MOOCs—and what your association should keep in mind. But at the scale with which Harvard and MIT work, that 5.5 Learning About Business Models.

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Report: Where Association Learning Technology Is Going

Associations Now

The latest edition of Tagoras’ Association Learning + Technology report finds that emerging learning technology is out there, but the problem is that organizations don’t have an effective strategy to put it into play. percent in the 2016 survey. percent) having a learning management system. In fact, 30.1

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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

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As always, we try to use this blog post to speak from our experience as a learning technology partner to organizations that provide continuing education and professional development. In eLearning, we are at the very start of the hype curve with distributed ledgers: we can imagine the technology solving one of our recurring problems.

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The Many Benefits of Selling Online Education to Corporate Members

WBT Systems

Even MOOCs have caught on. Coursera signaled its shift in focus from individuals to corporations when they launched Coursera for Business in August 2016—“a powerful way to help leading companies around the world address the rapidly evolving training and development needs of their employees.”. Unreliable technology infrastructure.

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8 New Ideas for Engaging Online Students

WBT Systems

An online instructor must understand not only how learners learn but also how to leverage technology to help them take in and retain information. The course you deliver in 2018 should not be the same course you delivered in 2016. 10 Secrets of Online Course Design from Award-Winning MOOCs. 5: Regularly update course content.

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How Associations Can Transform Higher Education

Reid All About it

Right now, today, in 2016 is the best time to start up. Kevin Kelly, from his book, The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future ). What if organizations, like associations, help people put together a curriculum from various online sources such as MOOCs and associations?

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