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Accounting Association Highlights Certificate Program to Stay Ahead of Automation

Associations Now

In a new ad campaign, the Institute of Management Accountants highlights how its CMA certification program prepares industry professionals for the rise of automation. The ads are a continuation of the IMA’s “You’ve Got to Earn It” campaign from 2017, which focused on the emergence of robots in the accounting field.

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Why are Associations missing from the Digital Credentials conversation?

WBT Systems

Other key recommendations in the report focus on the need for digital fluency and “ incentivizing employees to commit to lifelong learning so they continue to develop their skills or even retrain for new roles “, as noted in this analysis. ” (‘Leapfrogging in higher ed’, Tech Crunch, Jan 27, 2017.

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Associations: Solving the Skills Gap with Digital Credentials

WBT Systems

million open jobs in this country and only 98,000 were added in March 2017. Skills gap theorists say that formal education isn’t preparing enough candidates for specialized high-skill, high-growth jobs such as data analysis, user experience design and software programming. Department of Labor, in December 2016 there were 5.6

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Which Association Learning Trends Predictions Came True in 2016?

WBT Systems

Which association learning trends will still be important as we move forward into 2017? As the year has unfolded, it has been interesting to watch which of these association learning trends have manifested themselves and become important to associations that are looking to enhance and extend their education and certification programs.

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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

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When a learner accumulates a sufficient balance of CE credits over a certain span of time, she achieves maintenance of certification. One case study a week paired with a multiple-choice question makes a ton of sense, perhaps even as a replacement for high stakes certification.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 10.20.17

Reid All About it

As a CAE whose studying and exam experience is still imprinted in my brain, I can relate to this post from WBT Systems about motivating certification candidates. SURGE 2017. Listen to Higher Logic CEO Rob Wenger talk to DelCor Technology Solutions founder and CEO Loretta DeLuca about the deal. 1 CAE credit. Location: Washington DC.

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How to Lead in a Time of Declining Trust

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Trust in the certifications it delivers to its members. Every day seems to deliver a cycle of an attention-grabbing Event, followed by hours of analysis of the Event, followed by a debunking of the Event, which produces analysis of the debunking in which the debunker may or may not be a Russian bot. Communicate with care.

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