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There are a multitude of blogs and articles outlining the benefits of taking free online courses for professional development to advance your career, but do these courses actually deliver the value and opportunity they profess to provide to adult learners?
” But it can also be “I want to take a MOOC” or catch up on your reading or write articles or revamp your CRM system or refresh your website or whatever. Pay attention to the cycles of when you’re busy and when things are slow, and make sure you know what you want to do with your slow times.
Universities bolster MOOCs for online learning By Mary Beth Marklein via USA TODAY. Public universities and systems in nine states say they''ll join a push to greatly expand and improve online learning.
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That was the impetus behind this recent article I wrote for the Midwest Society of Association Executives that was published in their August 2013 issue.). Reframe Delivery – Massive open online courses or “MOOCs” are effectively disrupting the landscape. New technologies are becoming more and more affordable for associations.
If you’re interested in education and MOOCs and such, you’ve probably already read it. I read this Atlantic article, There’s More to Life Than Being Happy , by Emily Esfahani Smith last weekend and it really struck home with me. Simple, yet we find it so hard to do in our stressed out work days. Time to shift.
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Plus, associations can’t afford to pretend Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) don’t exist. Wong equates hiring to dating: “You’ve got to meet them and figure out what they’re like (or what they aren’t like) and see if there’s a future there,” he says in a recent LinkedIn article. (h/t Don’t Fear the MOOCs. h/t @kkish ).
By Clay Shirky Using what MP3 and Napster did to the music industry as an example, Shirky talks about the upcoming evolution/revolution within education in the form of MOOC (Massive Open Online Course). Napster, Udacity, and the Academy.
In this article, we’ll look at key aspects of this market and consider how it is likely to evolve in coming years. That said, in our own work we have chosen to focus specifically on adult lifelong learning, and the focus of the article is on the market for adult lifelong learning. It is not limited to adulthood or late adulthood.
Reading more of the article drew even more connections between what Smithsonian is attempting to do and what associations strive to do with their meetings and education offerings. Of course, it piqued my interest being that it falls under the umbrella of topics I cover in this blog. There’s no pressure, there’s no homework, there’s no exams.
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A related approach is giving learners an article to read, such as a scientific article that describes people who did not have natural ability but who developed exceptional skills. Of course, formal educational experiences are not the only way to learn. We must fully engage in the way that we hope those we lead will engage and learn.
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