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10 Secrets of Online Course Design from Award-Winning MOOCs

WBT Systems

An online Coursera course, Modern American Poetry , aka ModPo, is one of the 50 most popular MOOCs of all time. Typically, a MOOC features a course syllabus, in this case, a ten-week lesson plan with assigned reading (poems), instructor-created video content, discussion forum, peer-reviewed writing assignments, and quizzes.

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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. Creativity in the Time of AI Learn techniques to inspire your teams’ creativity. Learning business. Membership tiers. More info/register.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 10.7.16

Reid All About it

Class Central has reviewed and compiled a list of The Best Intro to Programming Courses for Data Science. This list is part of their Data Science Career Guide , a six-part series recommending the best online courses and MOOCs for people entering the data science industry. 1 CMP credit. More info/register. Tue 10/11 at 2 p.m. –

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How to Get Your Association to Support Staff’s Professional Development

WBT Systems

Review position descriptions at your association (including your own position) and at other associations to decide which skills and knowledge you need to: Take your association’s educational programs, program management, or program marketing to the next level. Your team/department: how will it help your department meet its goals?

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How to Prepare a Business Case for a New LMS

WBT Systems

Don’t overlook competing programs from other associations, higher education institutions, MOOCs, and for-profit companies, like LinkedIn, Udemy, and firms in your industry. Seek recommendations from association peers in online forums and LMS review sites. By now, you can identify staff stakeholders who will be on your project team.

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Kickstarter Founder Launches Nonprofit Platform: A Dollar A Day

Beth Kanter

Says Chen in an email interview, “We independently select each nonprofit, and review their website and public materials to write the paragraph summary which we share in our daily emails, and on our public calendar. Dollar a Day was built by a mostly volunteer team collaborating over the course of a year (usually one night a week).

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What does the collaborative economy mean for associations?

Mizz Information

There’s PLOS One , where authors can pay to have their work peer-reviewed and published. If people are buying less of everything, they''ll probably want less of the stuff your association sells too. Journals --Associations own the scholarly journal space, though, right? Nope--not anymore.

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