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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I’m tired of experiencing FOMO for this one, so I’ve already got my flight booked for Denver. 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. Learning business. Membership tiers.
Even MOOCs have caught on. Forbes reports that “Coursera has about 500 corporate customers today, up from 30 last year, with bookings growth of 400 percent, compared to 70 percent growth among Coursera’s paying users overall.”. Everyone sees the revenue potential in providing online education to corporate customers.
I recommend Clark and Mayer’s book as the first place to look for actionable suggestions. This one has staged something of a comeback with the rise of MOOCs and other free content, but it doesn’t take much more than observation and common sense to dispel it. 2: Creating interactivity in e-learning costs a lot.
In their book A+ Solution: How America’s Professional Societies and Trade Associations Can Solve the Nation’s Workforce Skills Crisis, John Bell, founder and CEO of online-career-center provider Boxwood Technology, Inc., Take massive open online courses, or MOOCs, for example.
From YouTube videos to social media communities to the age-old institution of local book groups, lifelong learning permeates nearly all aspects of our lives whether we are conscious of it or not—and technology has multiplied the options exponentially. billion in 2015. To a certain extent, such dialogue and collaboration already exist.
Especially books and publications. Will they purchase your association''s books or borrow them? Products --this one is a no brainer, at least in my opinion--if people start borrowing instead of buying, there potentially goes another big source of non-dues revenue. Do students purchase textbooks now, or borrow them?
That “content” may include everything from social media posts to on-demand and livestream videos, to podcasts, to e-books, to online courses, and more. Brown and How We Learn by Benedict Carey, two very popular books that focused on how human beings learn most effectively. Access our interview with Peter C. Taylor here.).
If necessary, learners could supplement your programs with college courses offered by MOOCs. Your chapters could host local meet-ups for study and test prep sessions or book clubs. Learners could also take advantage of career counseling or coaching sessions , mentor matching, and group masterminds offered by your association.
If necessary, learners could supplement your programs with college courses offered by MOOCs. Your chapters could host local meet-ups for study and test prep sessions or book clubs. Learners could also take advantage of career counseling or coaching sessions , mentor matching, and group masterminds offered by your association.
Google offers the free MOOC called “ Google Analytics Academy.” Leap of Reason Books (Free download). IdealWare offers a number of data related webinar courses and a free nonprofit data workbook. Leap of Reason offers toolkits for boards, nonprofits, and foundations on “do it yourself” outcomes based measurement.
At the less scaffolded end of the spectrum, you might point them to resources (like Self-Directed Learning , 10 Ways to Be a Better Learner , Coursera’s Learning How to Learn MOOC, or this resource). McDaniel [book] “ Make It Stick with Peter C. Of course, formal educational experiences are not the only way to learn. Celisa & Jeff.
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