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Association Brain Food: 5.12.23

Reid All About it

I’m tired of experiencing FOMO for this one, so I’ve already got my flight booked for Denver. WBT Systems describes how for-profit learning platforms, like the MOOCs Coursera and EdX, make their money. WBT shares seven MOOC business model strategies you should definitely steal. Learning business. Membership tiers.

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How to Continue the Conference Learning Experience

WBT Systems

Host the post-conference learning experience on your association’s learning management system (LMS) so you can take advantage of its tools and introduce attendees to other learning programs. Start an online book club. Select books written by this year’s and next year’s speakers. Continue the Conference Learning Experience.

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How Associations Can Transform Higher Education

Reid All About it

Kevin Kelly, from his book, The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future ). Give students the tools they need to be successful, productive and healthy adults. Right now, this minute. Let’s not blow our chance. Some adults don’t learn them until far too late in their career, some never do.

Education 150
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3 E-learning Myths It’s Time to Put to Bed

Aaron Wolowiec

I recommend Clark and Mayer’s book as the first place to look for actionable suggestions. Many self-paced e-learning authoring tools now provide a variety of ways for adding in software-based interactive elements with no programming knowledge at all. 2: Creating interactivity in e-learning costs a lot.

Mooc 100
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The Market for Adult Lifelong Learning

Leading Learning

From YouTube videos to social media communities to the age-old institution of local book groups, lifelong learning permeates nearly all aspects of our lives whether we are conscious of it or not—and technology has multiplied the options exponentially. billion in 2015. Advances in technology have been particularly important for this group.

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15 Changes in the Learning Business Landscape

Leading Learning

When you combine the built-in tools in most off-the-shelf e-learning authoring packages and course platforms with what is now possible with video, it’s relatively easy to produce an hour of reasonable quality e-learning content for well under $10K. That year saw the publication of Make It Stick by Henry Roediger, Mark McDaniel, and Peter C.

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On Learning Well: A Practical Look at Metalearning for Learning Businesses

Leading Learning

And putting your learners in the growth mindset is a potentially powerful tool for your learning business. While choice can be a powerful tool for tapping intrinsic motivation, too much choice can be problematic—think of information overload and analysis paralysis, particularly for more novice learners.

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