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How to Continue the Conference Learning Experience

WBT Systems

Conferences consume a great deal of your association’s time and financial resources. The truth is: conferences are not the most effective method of transferring knowledge. In most associations, only a small percentage of members attend conferences. Why Continue the Conference Learning Experience.

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Association Brain Food: 5.12.23

Reid All About it

I love the idea of a small, focused conference where you can actually get to know people, so I hope to meet many of you there. 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.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 7.21.17

Reid All About it

LMS provider WBT Systems writes about instructional design innovations that associations could borrow from “ModPo” and a few other award-winning MOOCs. Connect Your ASAE Conference Experience to Over 1000% Growth! A few years ago I took an excellent online Coursera course, Modern American Poetry. More info/register. Tue 7/25 at 2 p.m.

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Tech-Enabled Learning Events: What’s Now and Next?

Associations Now

The Association Learning + Technology 2016 report reveals that an overwhelming majority of associations offer technology-enabled learning like webcasts, virtual conferences, and self-paced tutorials. This can be in the form of webcasts, webinars, self-paced tutorials, virtual conferences, blended education, and so forth.

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SCD Group: 5 Articles on Association Meetings & Education

SCD Group

Education (whether conferences, seminars or webinars) represents a key component – and major revenue source – of most associations. Boring Conference Education Creates Zombie Attendees By Jeff Hurt via Velvet Chainsaw’s Midcourse Corrections What created this zombie army? Boring conference education!

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Napster, New Yorker, Freeloaders & 4 Other Articles for Association Executives

SCD Group

By Clay Shirky Using what MP3 and Napster did to the music industry as an example, Shirky talks about the upcoming evolution/revolution within education in the form of MOOC (Massive Open Online Course). And then there’s advertising and sponsorships, which can generate revenue if the association’s audience is large enough or highly desirable.

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Association Disruption: What’s your Educational Moonshot?

.orgCommunity

At the 2019 digitalNow conference , Dr. Radhika Dirks, CEO and co-founder of XLabs , talked to an audience of association executives about her work with moonshots. If necessary, learners could supplement your programs with college courses offered by MOOCs. Focus on value, not revenue potential. Moonshot factories. Collaboration.