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Associations play an important role in higher education

Aaron Wolowiec

The answer may lay in associations, according to Elizabeth Weaver Engel , chief strategist for Spark Consulting , and Shelly Alcorn , principal for Alcorn Associates Management Consulting , who just released, “ The Association Role in the New Education Paradigm.”. Try MOOCs or coding camps. So what should we do?

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Associations play an important role in higher education

Aaron Wolowiec

The answer may lay in associations, according to Elizabeth Weaver Engel , chief strategist for Spark Consulting , and Shelly Alcorn , principal for Alcorn Associates Management Consulting , who just released, “ The Association Role in the New Education Paradigm.”. Try MOOCs or coding camps. So what should we do?

Education 180
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Moose to MOOCs and 3 other articles for association executives

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Universities bolster MOOCs for online learning By Mary Beth Marklein via USA TODAY. What does this mean to associations? The spillover impact to expectations of our conferences and educational program. Most of the association executives I know pride themselves on being top flight managers. As a leader?

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Association Brain Food: 5.12.23

Reid All About it

I love the idea of a small, focused conference where you can actually get to know people, so I hope to meet many of you there. WBT Systems describes how for-profit learning platforms, like the MOOCs Coursera and EdX, make their money. The corporate market is a growing profit center for them—and could be for your association too.

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How Associations Can Transform Higher Education

Reid All About it

In the association community, it feels like we’re always playing catch up to the world around us. Webinars and conference sessions focus on challenges, problems to solve, outside forces and disruption. Maybe you’ve seen them speak at a conference or webinar, read their blogs or even worked with them. Let’s not blow our chance.

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Will MOOC’s Impact Association Educational Offerings?

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China, Canada and other countries, enough to fill Ohio Stadium three times over -- have accessed a massive open online course, or MOOC, on environmental science offered by Ohio State University’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences. “I Should you be pursuing your own version of MOOC courses?

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Association Disruption: What’s your Educational Moonshot?

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At the 2019 digitalNow conference , Dr. Radhika Dirks, CEO and co-founder of XLabs , talked to an audience of association executives about her work with moonshots. Then, they could participate in association programs that teach human (soft) skills. A moonshot changes the perception of what’s possible. Moonshot factories.