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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

Forj

Innovation Trigger. The concept of distributed ledgers has usefulness outside of its thriving use in financial transactions and currency speculation, and it is actively triggering innovation in healthcare IT. We like that idea, and we agree that you need to provide many different pricing models. We are all for it.

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Finding Radical Value in Core Competencies

Association Subculture

Regardless, the major innovations associations are seeking may not always be in completely new territory, but in having the courage and fortitude to effectively meet the challenges we have been presented with in our areas of core competency that have compelling possibilities in these new markets that are presenting themselves.

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Remember the 3 E’s When Marketing Educational Programs

WBT Systems

Besides other associations, you now have online professional platforms like LinkedIn (now owned by Microsoft) and Udacity to worry about, plus all the MOOCs like Coursera and EdX. Search for innovative product concepts. Overturn traditional assumptions about price/performance relationships.

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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. 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. Learning business.

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How Associations Can Transform Higher Education

Reid All About it

Not many, not at the prices charged by universities today. Thanks to MOOCs , many people around the world are patching together a college-level education by taking classes from Brown, Penn, UVA, Harvard and other respected universities. Tagged: Association , Education , Future , Innovation , Professional Development.

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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. A few years ago I took an excellent online Coursera course, Modern American Poetry. Here’s another good article about phishing attacks—this time the focus is on chapters. 1 CAE credit.

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The Market for Adult Lifelong Learning

Leading Learning

Coursera and edX, the two largest and most recognizable massive open online course (MOOC) providers, were both founded in 2012. Arguably, digital badges have managed to gain traction mainly because the large MOOC providers and LinkedIn have found them valuable. billion in 2015. But what giveth also taketh away.