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MOOC as Promotion: Brewers Association Launches Beer Course

Associations Now

The Brewers Association, in an effort to make room for a few craft brews in the culinary arena, has launched a five-day CraftBeer.com Beer & Food Course, a massive open online course (MOOC) that offers lessons on how to best taste, pour, and serve beer, as well as how to integrate it with different edibles.

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

WBT Systems

Start with an association e-learning strategy. Here’s where it starts to look ugly: 70% of these associations don’t have a formal, documented e-learning strategy. 7% of them aren’t sure if they have one—if you don’t know, you probably don’t—so let’s make that 77% without a strategy. How is that contribution measured?

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Learning from Big Learning: 15 Lessons

Leading Learning

Venture capital firms have jumped back into the game head first, massive open online course (MOOC) providers, originally rooted in universities, have gone public or been bought , and big Web firms like LinkedIn and Google have become major players. The MOOC 3. Yes, I know: most people sign up for MOOCs and never complete them.

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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. Using uncommon strategies from her book Elevating Engagement , learn how to create an energized and highly motivated membership.

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Challenges and Opportunities for Association Education Programs

WBT Systems

The article discusses some of the challenges these competitors face, and highlights successful strategies that organizations have implemented to encourage employees to up-skill and engage in continuing education, which could be applied to association education and certification programs also. .

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Giving 2.0: The MOOC Launches Today: Sign Up for Free

Beth Kanter

The MOOC , is a Stanford University-sponsored FREE online course intended to teach givers of all ages, backgrounds, incomes and experiences to give more effectively. Students will also be provided with ongoing, post-MOOC philanthropy education content that will support continued development and execution of their philanthropic goals.

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Moose to MOOCs and 3 other articles for association executives

SCD Group

Universities bolster MOOCs for online learning By Mary Beth Marklein via USA TODAY. Five Tips to Rock Membership from Moose By Lynda Baldwin at Communication Strategies Group, Inc. Public universities and systems in nine states say they''ll join a push to greatly expand and improve online learning. What does this mean to associations?

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