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Reads of the Week: September 14, 2012

Reid All About it

The New Yorker ran a powerful excerpt from Salman Rushdie ’s forthcoming book: The Disappeared: How the Fatwa Changed a Life. I’ve only read one book by Rushdie – Midnight’s Children – and what a book it was, I highly recommend it. I’m curious to see how effective and enjoyable a MOOC is – that’s a massive online open course.

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How to Continue the Conference Learning Experience

WBT Systems

Start an online book club. Select books written by this year’s and next year’s speakers. Follow the format of popular MOOCs : Share a discussion guide. Live-stream panel discussions. Invite audience participation via phone, web-conferencing chat, and social media.

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Reads of the Week: January 18, 2013

Reid All About it

If you’re interested in education and MOOCs and such, you’ve probably already read it. In case you’re at all curious about this fascinating creature, Richard Ellis’ book, The Search for the Giant Squid , is excellent. Holocaust survivor, Viktor Frankl wrote about this in his bestselling 1946 book, Man’s Search for Meaning.

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Association Brain Food: 7.1.22

Reid All About it

He pulls out association-relevant findings from the successes of MOOCs, LinkedIn Learning, Khan Academy, The Great Courses, Udemy, and Degreed. Join us for our Book Club series! Professional development. You will find lots of inspiration in these 15 lessons from Big Learning by Jeff Cobb at Leading Learning. Quick hits.

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Friday Top 5

Spark Consulting

You aren’t always going to be fully booked. ” 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. Take it, and don’t feel guilty. And you need to take time off.

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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. Self-published authors have become millionaires by giving away the first book in a series for free because readers will come back and pay for subsequent books.

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How Associations Can Transform Higher Education

Reid All About it

Kevin Kelly, from his book, The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future ). 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. Right now, this minute.

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