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Associations play an important role in higher education

Aaron Wolowiec

But with credentialing programs, MOOCs, conferences and other online offerings, associations can fill the skills gap. One example: competency-based education. You are just at the beginning of an exciting and accelerating lifelong learning process. Try MOOCs or coding camps. It’s a big opportunity and a big challenge.”.

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Associations play an important role in higher education

Aaron Wolowiec

But with credentialing programs, MOOCs, conferences and other online offerings, associations can fill the skills gap. One example: competency-based education. You are just at the beginning of an exciting and accelerating lifelong learning process. Try MOOCs or coding camps. It’s a big opportunity and a big challenge.”.

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The State of Association E-Learning: Cloudy with a Chance of Sunshine

WBT Systems

Throughout the report, Tagoras suggests questions for association staff to consider, for example: How does your e-learning (or learning) strategy contribute to the overall strategy of your organization? Develop processes for e-learning product development and pricing. Do you have a process for working with subject matter experts?

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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

Forj

An example would be getting your high-fidelity medical simulator to talk to your LMS and LRS. MOOCs: We will go against the grain a bit here and argue that MOOCs AREN’T DEAD. All the MOOCs out there. A couple years ago, I started noticing people from higher education referring to any old online course as a “MOOC.”

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Association Brain Food: 5.12.23

Reid All About it

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. She shares examples of a pre-event virtual program and one that takes place after an in-person event, both adding more value to the attendee experience.

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How to Prepare a Business Case for a New LMS

WBT Systems

Efficiency issues for staff: wasted time, manual processes, and lack of automation. Don’t overlook competing programs from other associations, higher education institutions, MOOCs, and for-profit companies, like LinkedIn, Udemy, and firms in your industry. How will processes and workflows in other departments change with a new LMS?

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The Importance of an LMS Roadmap When Selecting a Learning Platform

WBT Systems

For example, many software vendors were able to help their association clients become GDPR-compliant before the deadline, but some couldn’t. Linda Bowers, our chief technology officer, participates in the sales process because she likes to learn directly about the problems associations are trying to solve. Competition is increasing.

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