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Associations play an important role in higher education

Aaron Wolowiec

The answer may lay in associations, according to Elizabeth Weaver Engel , chief strategist for Spark Consulting , and Shelly Alcorn , principal for Alcorn Associates Management Consulting , who just released, “ The Association Role in the New Education Paradigm.”. Try MOOCs or coding camps. So what should we do?

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Associations play an important role in higher education

Aaron Wolowiec

The answer may lay in associations, according to Elizabeth Weaver Engel , chief strategist for Spark Consulting , and Shelly Alcorn , principal for Alcorn Associates Management Consulting , who just released, “ The Association Role in the New Education Paradigm.”. Try MOOCs or coding camps. So what should we do?

Education 180
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Mastering Your Craft

Thanks For Playing

She gets assigned to a senior professional in a field that's of interest to her - medicine, law, carpentry, association management, whatever - and starts learning her trade on the job and while drawing a paycheck. Enter MOOCs ( massive open online courses ). Right now, MOOCs are great - take classes from an Ivy for free!

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

WBT Systems

Don’t forget LinkedIn, colleges and universities , MOOCs, and other for-profit online learning platforms.). Does your association have a process for setting prices for e-learning products? It saddens us to hear that associations aren’t integrating their LMS with their AMS and never get the full picture of member and customer behavior.

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How Associations Can Transform Higher Education

Reid All About it

If you need a little inspiration—the kind that makes you feel blessed “to have been alive and well back then”—then read The Association Role in the New Education Paradigm , a white paper from Elizabeth Engel, CAE and Shelly Alcorn, CAE. The paper introduces you to a few associations that are stepping up to this challenge.

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Help Your Members Across the Digital Readiness Gap

WBT Systems

Familiarity with education technology : How familiar people are with online learning, MOOCs, digital badges, Khan Academy, and other online educational resources. Ability to determine the trustworthiness of online information : How confident people are in their ability to know whether the information they find online is trustworthy.

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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. Most of the association executives I know pride themselves on being top flight managers. Yet despite countless courses and seminars on the techniques of association management, they are continually overwhelmed by unmanageable events.

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