article thumbnail

How to Validate an Online Course Idea

WBT Systems

New players in the online learning market are bringing fresh ideas to online course development and marketing. They’re making millions of dollars in revenue, so they’re doing something right, for example, knowing how to validate an online course idea. If your online course doesn’t meet a market need, it won’t succeed.

Course 160
article thumbnail

Tips for Marketing (Online Courses) To Your Association Members  

Forj

Planning and effective execution of marketing concepts for services, such as online courses, requires a different approach to be successful. Online marketing and social media definitely has its place in the marketing world, and is in fact the “go-to” strategy for most businesses today. Tips for Marketing to Association Members.

Course 98
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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. Most online courses feature videos of instructors giving a lecture, but that’s not what you get in ModPo.

Mooc 155
article thumbnail

Nonprofit Staff Training: How to Create an Effective Plan

NXUnite

Some employees may enjoy engaging with their peers in live, instructor-led classes while others may feel more comfortable with learning at their own pace. Some popular staff training options include: Cohort-based classes. Asynchronous courses. Post social media shout-outs. Host a celebration event.

How To 130
article thumbnail

The 3 C’s of Social Learning for Associations

WBT Systems

Like many individuals and organizations in modern society, associations maintain social media profiles for sharing content of interest to their members. Many people assume that social learning emerged with the development of social media, but this is not the case.

LMS 236
article thumbnail

Use Data for New Revenue Opportunities

Association Analytics

In general, members were certainly shifting to more online products and services, such as virtual conferences or online classes. If you see that someone who signs up for a webinar is similar to members who purchase a continuing ed course, you can promote that course to that member after the webinar. Social media followers.

Revenue 169
article thumbnail

Coming soon to association learning: gamified learning and microcredentials

Aaron Wolowiec

But some new types of learning are also emerging: massive open online courses, flipped classes, gamified learning, microcredentials and microlearning, which has the highest rate of adoption. Other key takeaways from the report: Social media – Not surprisingly, associations use YouTube for education.