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The State of the MOOC: What Associations Should Know

Associations Now

Massive open online courses, or MOOCs, have been around long enough that some strong takeaways are starting to show themselves. Read on to see what Harvard and MIT have learned about MOOCs—and what your association should keep in mind. Is Now the Time For Your MOOC? Learning About Business Models.

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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. The education-to-employment system is broken and we need to understand why and what we can do to help,” Alcorn said. Try MOOCs or coding camps. We can do better.”.

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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. The education-to-employment system is broken and we need to understand why and what we can do to help,” Alcorn said. Try MOOCs or coding camps. We can do better.”.

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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

Forj

As Mark Iafrate of Accredible , an evangelist for badges, has suggested, these standards could continue to exist in a layered system that rests atop distributed ledgers. An example would be getting your high-fidelity medical simulator to talk to your LMS and LRS. EHR-Integrated Performance Improvement: Uncertainty around the U.S.

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

WBT Systems

Webinars and webcasts are the most popular platform for association e-learning (92%), and learning management systems (LMS) are the second most popular choice (67%). Don’t forget LinkedIn, colleges and universities , MOOCs, and other for-profit online learning platforms.). How is that contribution measured? Use of mobile learning.

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The Importance of an LMS Roadmap When Selecting a Learning Platform

WBT Systems

Are you using a 20th century system in the 21st century? How about improving system performance or security? For example, many software vendors were able to help their association clients become GDPR-compliant before the deadline, but some couldn’t. Is your LMS provider stuck in a rut? LMS roadmap: are promises delivered?

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Life goes on…and so does learning

Aaron Wolowiec

For example, if an association offers online certification, it can easily incorporate a YouTube video or podcast. A variety of tools – from web and social media analytics to e-mail statistics to low-cost feedback systems like iPerceptions – can be used to extend and strengthen traditional, less agile market research methods,” Cobb said.

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