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10 Secrets of Online Course Design from Award-Winning MOOCs

WBT Systems

If you want to see engaging, transformative online course design in action, add a little poetry to your life. An online Coursera course, Modern American Poetry , aka ModPo, is one of the 50 most popular MOOCs of all time. But Filreis and his merry band of teaching assistants (TAs) turbo-charged the usual MOOC formula.

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Wednesday Buzz: Use MOOCs to Build Community

Associations Now

Encourage your members to hang out with other members when they dive into your online courses. Does your association provide massive open online courses (MOOCs) or virtual continuing education courses to members? But Lifehacker notes that online courses can be turned into group activity.

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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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Report: Where Association Learning Technology Is Going

Associations Now

“Association Learning + Technology 2017,” a new report from Tagoras sponsored by Community Brands, makes the case that many associations have yet to work emerging kinds of learning into their offerings—though many are looking into it. But what about all the other online education options out there?

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The Market for Adult Lifelong Learning

Leading Learning

In 2017, The Economist declared lifelong learning an “economic imperative,” and it has hardly been the only publication in mainstream and business presses to insist on the importance of learning in a world where the scale, scope, and speed of change seem much higher than ever before. Teachable is just one of many similar companies.

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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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