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Association Brain Food: 5.12.23

Reid All About it

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. WBT shares seven MOOC business model strategies you should definitely steal. Lunch costs are on your own.

Chicago 200
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How Associations Can Transform Higher Education

Reid All About it

If you need a little inspiration—the kind that makes you feel blessed “to have been alive and well back then”—then read The Association Role in the New Education Paradigm , a white paper from Elizabeth Engel, CAE and Shelly Alcorn, CAE. The paper introduces you to a few associations that are stepping up to this challenge. Fill the gap.

Education 150
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Can Associations Corner the Education Market?

Associations Now

With the rising costs of higher education—college tuition costs have increased by more than 500 percent over the last 28 years—and growing skepticism that the price may not be worth it , the idea of a traditional college education is experiencing somewhat of a backlash and is opening a potential opportunity for associations.

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15 Changes in the Learning Business Landscape

Leading Learning

The drop in the cost and effort required to capture, edit, and deliver video has dramatically increased our ability to use it for developing educational content. For learning businesses, the rise of SaaS has meant better, lower-cost access to a wider variety of learning platform options. The E-learning Cost Cliff.

Course 101
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Association Leadership: Lessons from Twinkie, Kodacrome & Blackberry

SCD Group

Lots of people are speculating the cause of the Twinkie failure: high labor costs, incompetent management, failure to keep up with trends (toward healthier snacks). We need to invest a great deal more in building future market share, and less in protecting legacy market share that is already beginning to disappear.).

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Help Your Members Across the Digital Readiness Gap

WBT Systems

But even when people have access to the web, another type of digital divide may present a challenge to associations with online learning programs—a digital readiness gap. If the target market for your educational programs is on the wrong side of this gap, you need to know and you need a plan for bridging the gap. Cost vs. value.

LMS 218