Reid All About it

JUNE 20, 2025

Convincing busy members to take online courses is hard enough, but imagine having to persuade employees to attend optional training programs. Membership course. Earn 10 CAE credits at Association Academy’s popular Association Member Growth Certificate Course. Save $50 with promo code BRAINFOOD. Learning cohorts. 1 CAE credit.

DC

The Big Picture

JUNE 10, 2025

I think to be international business at Taylor, you just had to take a language, which of course I took, you know, eight years of Spanish and I can speak maybe 15 words, but that, you know, that’s, that’s how we kind of ended up with that one. Oh, of course. London is a world class city. Clayton Christensen.

New York

The Big Picture

JUNE 23, 2025

That’s Barry Ritholtz : That’s the gut course that screens a lot of doc future docs out. I took a finance class, really liked it a lot. I love biology, organic chemistry, not so much. Steve Laipply : So I had a good friend who said, Hey, I’m taking finance. I really like it. Maybe give it a shot.

Miami

The Big Picture

JULY 15, 2025

I didn’t, I was too lazy to be perfectly frank, and didn’t want to take one of the intro courses. But I took like, I don’t know, 5, 6, 7 philosophy courses, something like that. I think I took a course in relativism with him. That’s, and there was mine, so of course I read it. I get that.

United States

WBT Systems

JULY 11, 2017

When digital entrepreneurs—those who make their living selling online products and services—see a need in their market, they design a revenue-generating online course to meet that need. They also use online course marketing tactics that help them become millionaires in the process. First, they promote and sell the course.

Course

WBT Systems

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

New players in the online learning market are bringing fresh ideas to online course development and marketing. They’re making millions of dollars in revenue, so they’re doing something right, for example, knowing how to validate an online course idea. If your online course doesn’t meet a market need, it won’t succeed.

Course

WBT Systems

JULY 18, 2017

If you want to see engaging, transformative online course design in action, add a little poetry to your life. An online Coursera course, Modern American Poetry , aka ModPo, is one of the 50 most popular MOOCs of all time. Most online courses feature videos of instructors giving a lecture, but that’s not what you get in ModPo.

Mooc

Higher Logic

MARCH 27, 2019

First-timers who log in have no problems finding their course information.” – Casandra D. Streamlined Course Experience. Instead of emailing countless class updates, staff can upload these into one place. Even the onsite classes have become more sustainable, because members have an online classroom option now.

Learning Management System

Associations Now

OCTOBER 27, 2014

In an effort to draw attention to beer’s culinary role, the Brewers Association announced a five-day course on how to best pair the popular beverage with food. The first four days of the course are open to the public. a beer expert—helped create the course with Adam Dulye, a culinary consultant with the association.

Mooc

WBT Systems

JULY 19, 2016

Rather than creating all your course content from scratch, learning content curation can help you to update and extend your member education programs with new material. The course catalog in your LMS is the repository for all your education program content. Have you tried curating content for your education programs?

Content

Forj

AUGUST 7, 2017

Planning and effective execution of marketing concepts for services, such as online courses, requires a different approach to be successful. It is a good idea, however, to use a mixture of online and off-line strategies when marketing events and classes to association members. Tips for Marketing to Association Members. Create a buzz.

Course

Blue Sky eLearn

DECEMBER 6, 2019

While it’s great to provide in-person classes and events that offer accreditation to attendees, that is not the only way to present learning opportunities. Investing in an LMS lets your association offer classes online. Restricted audience for classes. User management. Provide community forums for eLearning programs.

Member Engagement

Leading Learning

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Whether these learners are partners, customers, students, or professionals or workers in your target market, they deserve to get a high-quality online course that motivates them to learn throughout the experience. If you are offering online courses , here are a few things you can do to increase participation and keep your learners engaged.

Course

Higher Logic

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

In the SOCM 2015 a significant majority of best-in-class communities provide one or more types of professional development opportunities to their community teams.

San Francisco

WBT Systems

AUGUST 30, 2016

This may depend on whether your courses include in-person sessions, such as conferences or classroom learning, or if most of the learning takes place online through your LMS, because your members are geographically dispersed. For example, you might think about how you can encourage the learner to connect with and work with their peers.

LMS

Blue Sky eLearn

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Most Effective Ways to Monetize Educational Content: Here is what we’ve found to be some of the most effective ways for associations to monetize their educational content: Develop and sell online courses. Along the same lines of collaborating with a corporation for a virtual event, you could do this for a full online course as well.

Content

Aaron Wolowiec

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

But some new types of learning are also emerging: massive open online courses, flipped classes, gamified learning, microcredentials and microlearning, which has the highest rate of adoption. Webinars continue to be the No. 1 technological learning tool, followed by online learning programs, such as tutorials or presentations.

Learning Management System

Aaron Wolowiec

APRIL 22, 2014

In fact, I took my first graduate class as a lifelong learner because it was so much cheaper. So now I’m wondering, where do Massive Open Online Courses fit into this equation? Some are undergrads and some are grad students. And others are lifelong learners. Simply put: Learning doesn’t stop after high school or college.

Mooc

WBT Systems

JUNE 28, 2016

However, the summertime is a great time to evaluate your current learning management system and the training courses your organization offers. Are learners completing the courses? Are you receiving many questions about the course material? Effective course material keeps learners coming back for more. (2)

LMS

WBT Systems

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

When promoting your education or certification programs to learners, remember that while you need to describe the learning outcomes and available credits of a course in the course catalog, this is not the whole story. Surveys issued after course completion are one way to collect feedback, but they will relate to a specific program.

Learning Management System

WBT Systems

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

There are a multitude of different tools available to instructional designers and eLearning developers, and it is important to consider which tools will help you to achieve the desired learning objectives and outcomes for your courses. Once a learner chooses an item, it then launches that lesson. The lesson is usually not created in the LMS.

LMS

WBT Systems

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

A learning pathway is a designated route through online classes, courses, and other educational programs that is designed to help someone achieve a learning goal, for example, prepare for a specific career or update skills. Will you offer some of the classes at conferences and other in-person events? Or blended?

How To

Aaron Wolowiec

JUNE 17, 2014

Massive Open Online Courses – or MOOCs – seem to be all the rage. MOOCs are online classes that are available to anyone with a computer and/or Internet access. But only 8 to 10 percent of those enrolled actually complete the class. An infographic by Online-PhD-Programs.org summarizing MOOCs. So is it worth it?

Mooc

Virtual

APRIL 25, 2017

As a Training Specialist, I am responsible for planning the training class from start to finish, and my tasks can vary greatly. I work with both my client contact, events team and the class trainer to organize the training class. 5) WHAT PART OF THIS JOB DO YOU PERSONALLY FIND MOST CHALLENGING?

Certificate

Thanks For Playing

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Coursera is a platform that offers university-level classes from places like Stanford, Duke. OK, it doesn't support degree programs - at least not yet - but it's currently the leade r in open online courses. What are you waiting for?

Class

Reid All About it

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

When I went to college, a middle class kid could afford a four-year liberal arts education. Here are some of the courses I’d require: Strategic thinking and goal-setting. Not your typical classes, I know, but they’re life skills people need to develop personally and professionally. Project management and team dynamics.

Education

WBT Systems

AUGUST 1, 2017

Flipped learning is the brainchild of two high school science teachers who decided in 2007 to have their students watch preparatory videos online before coming to class. During the course, send weekly notifications to participants that highlight additional resources or interesting community discussions.

Education

WBT Systems

MARCH 27, 2018

For many adults, taking a class online is a new learning experience. If you don’t have these resources, check out: Coursera’s Learning to Teach Online course. Don’t wait for the end of the course to find out about adjustments you can make along the way. Score bonus points if you can get a course alumni to do this.

Course

WBT Systems

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

However, you don’t have the budget to hire instructional designers to develop courses. They will see a learning pathway as being a more valuable educational experience than taking a course here and there. You can offer educational content as stand-alone units, as part of a class, and also as part of a learning pathway.

How To

Higher Logic

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

When I was a kid, I always thought that once I had graduated from high school or college, my days of taking classes would be over. But adults, especially working adults, don’t have the free time children do to attend classes every day and tackle homework. Create engaging and interesting courses for your students.

Education

Spark Consulting

JANUARY 14, 2019

The mailed notices are, of course, not the ONLY reason for that improvement, but they definitely contributed.

Guidelines

Reid All About it

JUNE 28, 2024

Membership course. Association Brain Food readers can earn up to 10 CAE credits with Chris Gloede’s popular live 10-week Association Academy Member Growth Certificate Course for only $499 with Brain Food promo code ACADEMY (a $50 discount). See the full course syllabus for more details.

LMS

Jamie Notter

JUNE 4, 2020

Providing those skills and knowledge, of course, is a big part of what I do, and since the in-person events are obviously being put off for who-knows-how-long, we just completely revamped our online training website, the Culture Campus , to help you keep up with the pace of change. Individuals can sign up for either course for only $97.

Education

Blue Sky eLearn

JANUARY 15, 2018

That one topic was taking up a huge amount of class time as I taught and re-taught the same concepts. I have seen many LMS portals that are beautiful, welcoming, and professional, with a wide array of interesting features, but once I drill down, I find only a handful of courses.

Course

WBT Systems

APRIL 19, 2017

The remaining two types of learning are online courses and webinars, both of which are accessed online, which means there is an even 50/50 split between preference for online and offline delivery of learning among association members.

millennials

WBT Systems

AUGUST 15, 2017

Then, make the sale—move your prospect from thinking “I should take a class” to “I am registered for a class.”. Provide advanced level programs for executives or 101 courses for affiliate/associate members. Include a monthly class/webinar and access to an online community in a new online membership level.

Education

WBT Systems

MAY 1, 2018

Great news: you got the go-ahead to offer a new online course. Now, the bad news: you didn’t get the budget to hire a professional to design and develop the course. Plus, the time staff spends on course design and development is time away from other responsibilities. At least, we’ll save money…or will we?

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