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

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Carole Baskin is killing it in marketing: How the non-profit in ‘Tiger King’ dominates digital strategy

Association Success

Just as big cats hunt animals as large as elephants and as small as rodents, Big Cat Rescue has a constant need for volunteers and interns, donors and advocates, and of course, park visitors. Of course, finding out requires you to give up your name and email address. Well, how about this: The San Diego Zoo is literally the No.

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Get To Know Me!

Association Okie

The spread of social media in our corner of the world (associations) has me contemplating the change in how we know people. But of course, I don’t. I met her in San Diego, at ASAE 2008. We read their blogs, follow them on Twitter, LinkedIn, “Friend” them on Facebook, and think we know them.

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Association Weekly Wrap-Up for February 8th!

YourMembership

A study conducted by the Center for Creative Leadership in San Diego found Millennial employees have about the same level of organizational commitment as other generations. Well, things are changing: the economy, technology, social media tools and paradigms for using them, generation shifts. I can hear you saying no.

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For Leaders, Approval Starts With Awareness

Associations Now

McDougle at the University of San Diego [PDF] shows that only about 30 percent of Americans have a high degree of confidence that nonprofits are providing quality services, and less than 20 percent believe nonprofits spend money wisely. That high degree of skepticism extends to nonprofitdom too: A 2016 study by Lindsey M.