Aaron Wolowiec

AUGUST 13, 2021

Hosting an education-based conference or meeting can be tricky. Attendees come with multiple learning styles, diverse educational goals, and wildly different attention spans. But it’s possible to host an educational event that satisfies everyone’s checklists.

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Aaron Wolowiec

OCTOBER 27, 2023

One of our clients elected to depart from its usual 90-minute panel presentations to experiment with a new and highly interactive learning format for about 125 people. Overall, I think this was an important and much-needed change that most people really enjoyed. Of course, there remains room for improvement both in planning and in implementation.

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Freestone

APRIL 16, 2024

Repurposing content can save your continuing education program time, money, and energy as you attract new learners. But does your organization know the best way to create compelling on-demand continuing education content? When you rebroadcast your existing continuing education content, you extend its life.

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Ungrated

MAY 18, 2023

Day two of the 2023 CAI Annual Conference and Exposition: Community NOW introduced attendees to the first set of conference education sessions to inspire and inform. Topics ranged from building maintenance and collecting assessments to conflict and more. Here are some highlights from day two. Find some wins.

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Ungrated

MAY 18, 2023

Day two of the 2023 CAI Annual Conference and Exposition: Community NOW introduced attendees to the first set of conference education sessions to inspire and inform. Topics ranged from building maintenance and collecting assessments to conflict and more. Here are some highlights from day two. Find some wins.

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Freestone

MARCH 14, 2024

Introduction Do you want to attract new learners to your continuing education program? Embrace multimodal learning in your continuing education strategy. Multimodal learning is used to improve the quality of education, ensuring content delivery matches a student’s learning style. What is multimodal learning?

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Velvet Chainsaw

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Here’s what hasn’t changed: Education continues to be essential to a participant’s experience. Here’s what has changed: I’m convinced that “something for everyone” programming — including basic content for the novice or intermediate practitioner — is no longer the right strategy for positioning your conference as a can’t-miss experience.

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WBT Systems

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Conferences consume a great deal of your association’s time and financial resources. Should they take such a primary place in your association’s educational offerings? The truth is: conferences are not the most effective method of transferring knowledge. Why Continue the Conference Learning Experience.

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WBT Systems

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Organizations offer a wide variety of professional learning opportunities to their members, employees, and partners which range from online courses and webinars, to regional or annual conferences, to classroom-based learning. It turns out that the two key reasons are Networking and Education. Reasons Members Attend Events.

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Associations Now

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Offer Communal Learning For the second year in a row, the report found that members’ top two reasons for joining associations are “to connect with other members/professionals like me” and “to learn and participate in training or education.” “We

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Associations Now

MAY 23, 2019

NAFSA’s 2019 Annual Conference & Expo begins next week in Washington, DC. Thousands of international educators, including deans, provosts, and student advisors, are headed to DC to learn from experts, discover innovations and discuss trends, and get to know colleagues from around the world. Rundown Attendees: 10,000. Embassy row.

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Associations Now

JUNE 20, 2019

The International Society for Technology in Education’s 2019 Conference begins this weekend in Philadelphia. Organization: International Society for Technology in Education. Conference: ISTE 2019. Stay connected to the conference by following along on Twitter ( #ISTE19 ), Facebook , and LinkedIn.

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WBT Systems

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The recent whitepaper, “ The Association Role in the New Education Paradigm ”, has generated significant conversation online about how associations need to lead change with education programs , as associations are uniquely poised to help bridge the growing gap between academic training and employers needs.

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Ungrated

MAY 19, 2023

Day three of the 2023 CAI Annual Conference and Exposition: Community NOW introduced attendees to a variety of education sessions to motivate and prepare. Education Session: Charting a Course Post-Surfside Legislative changes and policy recommendations made in the wake of the Surfside, Fla., in Chantilly, Va.,

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Associations Now

MARCH 21, 2019

The University Professional and Continuing Education Association’s 104th Annual Conference begins next week in Seattle. Organization: University Professional and Continuing Education Association. Conference: 104th UPCEA Annual Conference. Attendance is expected to top 700. Venue: Sheraton Seattle Downtown.

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WBT Systems

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Since some of your courses have been around forever, you wonder if it might be time to sunset an educational program or two. When an organization has limited resources, you can’t afford to invest time and money into educational programs—online courses, certifications, or conferences—that no longer meet the needs of your target audiences.

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Associations Now

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Continuing education matters, but should it come just from meetings? How does your association rank conferences within its education strategy? That stat might paint a dire view of meetings, but when loyalty is considered, conferences do matter. Continuing education is important to members,” Pawlak says.

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Smooth The Path

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Putting on an in-person conference can be like putting on a show. Remember what it feels like to have people coming into the main session room during the conference opening and finding their seats? Some conference hosts, especially hosts of large conferences, are trying to create that same pageantry in the virtual setting.

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Associations Now

APRIL 11, 2019

Conference Sessions: 43. AACSB International’s 2019 International Conference and Annual Meeting begins next week in Scotland. Conference: International Conference and Annual Meeting. Venue: Edinburgh International Conference Centre. Rundown Attendees: 1,300 plus. Networking Opportunities: 23. Learning Tracks: 5.

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YourMembership

APRIL 10, 2018

Join us on day one of the conference for the Crowd Wisdom LMS and Freestone LMS roadmap sessions. The post Xperience 2018: Must-dos for continuing education professionals. The post Xperience 2018: Must-dos for continuing education professionals. Roadmap sessions. Hear first-hand from the product managers about the.

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Ungrated

JULY 29, 2021

After a long time apart, CAI is excited to welcome more than 1,000 registered attendees, sponsors, and exhibitors to the 2021 Annual Conference and Exposition: Community NOW, Aug. CAI is expecting all conference attendees to follow the new guidelines to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus in our community. 18–21, in Las Vegas.

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Velvet Chainsaw

AUGUST 9, 2023

For complex conference programs, this insight means that you can increase satisfaction — and reduce attendee anxiety — by providing them with several targeted choices. For conferences that develop education sessions that appeal to a broad audience, applying the principles in this study can improve the attendee experience.

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Reid All About it

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Webinars and conference sessions focus on challenges, problems to solve, outside forces and disruption. 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.

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Association Success

MAY 6, 2019

It’s no secret that traditional lecture-style educational sessions are no longer the most effective way to educate. Your conference teams, committees, speakers and anybody else who is working on your conference or meetings need to understand that you want to revolutionize the way you’re doing things and shake things up.

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WBT Systems

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

“ The Association Role in the New Education Paradigm ”, a recently published whitepaper, outlines the potential for Associations to lead a much needed change in the current education industry. But they ask – are associations ready to lead this change? Why the need for change? The Association Advantage for Employers.

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YourMembership

MARCH 30, 2020

A strong continuing education program requires quality content and a great overall learning experience. Here’s how to line up speakers that will deliver high-quality content and a great experience for your association’s learners.

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WBT Systems

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Many of these associations offer some form of professional development, continuing education, or training to both members and non-members, and increasingly this includes an online learning element. With such diversity, how do you determine what makes an association education program successful? Some questions you may need to ask are?

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Eplys

OCTOBER 21, 2020

When you begin thinking about how you want to organize your next conference, it’s important to consider how you are going to attract a variety of attendee demographics. One easy way to start is by curating varying educational tracks that could interest a range of professionals to your event.

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Associations Now

JUNE 25, 2019

Submissions have historically been used to determine education sessions, but a new emphasis on knowledge curation is taking precedent. Many conferences are centered on one key element: education. Use the wrong words and images and visitors to your conference website will quickly move on to something else. Distracted?

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Thanks For Playing

MAY 24, 2018

I recently had the opportunity to contribute to Association Success’s SURGE 2018 spring conference, hosting a “monitor-side chat” with Shelly Alcorn and Tracy Petrillo on the association role in the new educational paradigm. Association Success asked me to write a follow-up article about that session.

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Spark Consulting

MAY 24, 2018

I recently had the opportunity to contribute to Association Success’s SURGE 2018 spring conference, hosting a “monitor-side chat” with Shelly Alcorn and Tracy Petrillo on the association role in the new educational paradigm. Association Success asked me to write a follow-up article about that session.

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Aaron Wolowiec

AUGUST 30, 2016

education) wasn’t nearly as strong. As some of you may know, I work at a university (in addition to my Event Garde role), so I live and breathe higher education. Educators should develop a better understanding of what students need to be learning, and then connect those learning outcomes to employment, they said.

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Aaron Wolowiec

AUGUST 30, 2016

education) wasn’t nearly as strong. As some of you may know, I work at a university (in addition to my Event Garde role), so I live and breathe higher education. Educators should develop a better understanding of what students need to be learning, and then connect those learning outcomes to employment, they said.

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WBT Systems

MAY 9, 2022

Online learning got a tremendous boost during the pandemic when virtual conferences and courses were the only option for education. But people who are looking at online education options now won’t be wowed or…

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WBT Systems

OCTOBER 18, 2016

There has been much discussion lately about the value of digital badges for both association education and certification programs. The social connectivity offered by digital badges aligns perfectly with the nature of association membership and education programs in particular. OpenBadges increase visibility for the Association.

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Eric Lanke

AUGUST 12, 2019

Two weeks ago, I posted about an upcoming panel discussion I was asked to participate in -- a panel on how associations are successfully working to develop a better educated workforce for the industries they represent. Well, that panel happened at a conference I attended last Thursday, and I thought I would provide an update.

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Higher Logic

JUNE 11, 2019

What if you could provide your members with networking opportunities and useful information on the content discussed at your annual conference or industry event, long after it has ended? Use your community to educate members on beneficial features of your mobile app and get them excited about what they can look forward to at the event.

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