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Association eLearning vs Free Online Courses

WBT Systems

There are a multitude of blogs and articles outlining the benefits of taking free online courses for professional development to advance your career, but do these courses actually deliver the value and opportunity they profess to provide to adult learners? Lower fees for learners due to the lower costs of delivering education online.

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The Market for Adult Lifelong Learning

Leading Learning

In this article, we’ll look at key aspects of this market and consider how it is likely to evolve in coming years. That said, in our own work we have chosen to focus specifically on adult lifelong learning, and the focus of the article is on the market for adult lifelong learning. It is not limited to adulthood or late adulthood.

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Finding Radical Value in Core Competencies

Association Subculture

That was the impetus behind this recent article I wrote for the Midwest Society of Association Executives that was published in their August 2013 issue.). Rising college tuition costs, shrinking numbers of seats, and new technology based delivery systems are combining to create a perfect storm in the adult education world.

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The Big 3 (Costs, changing demographics and mobile) impacting association meetings

SCD Group

But, the registration fee is less than 20% of the total cost of attending. In addition, I have to pay airfare/travel costs (around $500) and lodging expenses (about $950). So, my out-of-pocket costs total about $2,250. So, the real cost of attending that one professional meeting totals about $5,600! Customized content.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 7.21.17

Reid All About it

Kai-Fu Lee debunks dystopian AI scenarios in a Wired article. He says love will always differentiate us from AI—a prediction that reminds me of an article I mentioned two weeks ago about the value of emotional labor in the future. Here’s another good article about phishing attacks—this time the focus is on chapters.

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15 Changes in the Learning Business Landscape

Leading Learning

During those 15 years, we’ve worked with a lot of organizations, done a lot of research, published hundreds of articles and podcasts along with numerous reports , hosted more than a hundred Webinars , and run multiple events , online and off. The E-learning Cost Cliff. More on current costs to produce e-learning here.).

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