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Association professionals, please consider participating in the 2019 Association Communications Benchmarking Survey. Increasingly LMS platforms are moving from a course catalog approach to a home where ideas are shared by learners and interaction in an important element to the online education experience. Wed 4/17 at 2 p.m.
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