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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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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

Forj

As always, we try to use this blog post to speak from our experience as a learning technology partner to organizations that provide continuing education and professional development. It’s a great attractor for learning experiences at conferences and multi-day live courses. You’ll notice that right away below the fold.

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Life goes on…and so does learning

Aaron Wolowiec

In fact, I took my first graduate class as a lifelong learner because it was so much cheaper. Organizations need to get more adept at using these tools, testing new ideas quickly and moving to full implementation with decisiveness.”. So now I’m wondering, where do Massive Open Online Courses fit into this equation?

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9 Ways to Increase Online Student Engagement

WBT Systems

If you’ve taken a continuing education class, you’ve seen how students fade away over time. They have trouble making class and keeping up with coursework. An online course that merely provides information is no better than any other in today’s competitive lifelong learning market. People get busy.

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Challenges and Opportunities for Association Education Programs

WBT Systems

It discusses in depth its research on employee engagement in the workplace, and the benefits organizations with an engaged workforce experience , including increased productivity, reduced turnover of staff, improved profitability and performance. Lifelong Learning is Becoming an Economic Imperative.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 10.7.16

Reid All About it

Since I’ve been on an education kick lately, here’s an example of curation by a for-profit organization. Class Central has reviewed and compiled a list of The Best Intro to Programming Courses for Data Science. Hear how two small-staff CEOs tackle important issues and design their organizations for success.

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How Associations Can Transform Higher Education

Reid All About it

When I went to college, a middle class kid could afford a four-year liberal arts education. Here are some of the courses I’d require: Strategic thinking and goal-setting. Not your typical classes, I know, but they’re life skills people need to develop personally and professionally. Project management and team dynamics.

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