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education) wasn’t nearly as strong. As some of you may know, I work at a university (in addition to my Event Garde role), so I live and breathe higher education. Educators should develop a better understanding of what students need to be learning, and then connect those learning outcomes to employment, they said.
education) wasn’t nearly as strong. As some of you may know, I work at a university (in addition to my Event Garde role), so I live and breathe higher education. Educators should develop a better understanding of what students need to be learning, and then connect those learning outcomes to employment, they said.
Conferences consume a great deal of your association’s time and financial resources. Should they take such a primary place in your association’s educational offerings? The truth is: conferences are not the most effective method of transferring knowledge. Why Continue the Conference Learning Experience.
Webinars and conference sessions focus on challenges, problems to solve, outside forces and disruption. 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.
First, create awareness in your target audiences—their awareness of the need for pursuing professional development and their awareness of the educational programs your association offers. The three E’s of marketing educational programs will help you succeed with each of these three phases of marketing.
Many instructors are subject matter experts but they aren’t trained in adult education or online learning. Even if an instructor has scored well on conference evaluations, an online environment requires a new skillset. Make sure your program offers education in online instruction. 1: Train instructors in online learning.
The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. He pulls out association-relevant findings from the successes of MOOCs, LinkedIn Learning, Khan Academy, The Great Courses, Udemy, and Degreed. Skip down to the list of free educational events if you prefer takeout. Multi-generational teams.
Don’t overlook competing programs from other associations, higher education institutions, MOOCs, and for-profit companies, like LinkedIn, Udemy, and firms in your industry. If member surveys have shown an interest in online education but your registration numbers reflect otherwise, bring that discrepancy to light. Sponsorships.
Chances are you’ll see something in their mission or values about education. Review position descriptions at your association (including your own position) and at other associations to decide which skills and knowledge you need to: Take your association’s educational programs, program management, or program marketing to the next level.
The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Non Dues-a-Palooza (NDP). I love the idea of a small, focused conference where you can actually get to know people, so I hope to meet many of you there. WBT shares seven MOOC business model strategies you should definitely steal.
As I read a news story about 300,000 people enrolling in an environmental course, I wonder how exposure to massive open online courses will impact educational offerings of associations and professional societies. And what will this mean to associations generating non-dues revenue from such educational classes?
Does your association provide massive open online courses (MOOCs) or virtual continuing education courses to members? But if your conference has an advocacy component, you may want to invite groups that are typically on the other side of your policy issues. Perhaps you should suggest that your members do their learning together.
Universities bolster MOOCs for online learning By Mary Beth Marklein via USA TODAY. The spillover impact to expectations of our conferences and educational program. Public universities and systems in nine states say they''ll join a push to greatly expand and improve online learning. What does this mean to associations?
Knowledge transferred via conferences, webinars, websites, blogs, etc. The digitally-driven rapid changes in higher education could be a precursor for associations and our role in knowledge transfer. The Minerva Schools at KGI is one of several recent entrepreneurial initiatives aimed at shaking up traditional higher education.
5 Articles on Association Meetings & Education. Education (whether conferences, seminars or webinars) represents a key component – and major revenue source – of most associations. Boring conferenceeducation! Bad And Boring Education Is Unacceptable. Sunday, September 16, 2012. Here’s why.
Emerging technology is shifting our workforce toward intellectual capital and changing the ways we educate both students and adults. At the 2013 Digital Now conference , in multiple presentations—none of which were ostensibly related—the topic of education kept arising. I am a chronic abuser of the snooze button. Young members.
Here are 17 education and learning trends in alphabetical order that many organizations are adopting this year. These trends are disrupting most traditional education programs. Research from several organizations illustrate that most adult learners prefer collaborative education opportunities with their peers.
The Association Learning + Technology 2016 report reveals that an overwhelming majority of associations offer technology-enabled learning like webcasts, virtual conferences, and self-paced tutorials. But, as you are well aware, that’s not the only way associations deliver education. and sponsored by YM Learning, 87.4 Types of Learning.
Associations offer more than education opportunities. Education And Content Commoditized. Education and networking are two key functions of associations as identified in the 2010 Association Forum white paper “The Purpose Of Associations.” Yet, today, many of these services have become commoditized.
But, while much of the focus has been on formal education and training tied to employment, the demand and supply for lifelong learning are much broader. We also believe it is important to recognize that lifelong learning is not limited to education and training or to formal activities. continuing education market as USD 93.25
And, this helps explain why more people are looking more favorably on mobile education. Several stories in the news last week made me consider the potentially big changes coming in association meetings & education. From public to higher education to professional development, educators and trainers should take heed.
By Clay Shirky Using what MP3 and Napster did to the music industry as an example, Shirky talks about the upcoming evolution/revolution within education in the form of MOOC (Massive Open Online Course). Three More Reasons Why Your Conference Should Leverage Social Media. As is your conference planning process!
To old school companies, a booth at an industry conference was a great investment and seen as the way to get their product/service in front of potential customers; not so much in the collaborative economy, I’d speculate. What other aspects of associations do you think could be impacted by the shift towards a collaborative economy?
I’ve been a huge fan of GivingTuesday since I first heard about it back in September, 2012 during a conference at Stanford. Research points to the emergence of a dynamic generation: educated, industrious, collaborative and eager to build a better world (see slide 10). It’s a huge group: two billion worldwide. The Giving 2.0
As always, we try to use this blog post to speak from our experience as a learning technology partner to organizations that provide continuing education and professional development. We manage continuing education (CE) credit transactions: a learner completes a CE activity and receives CE credit, or “credit hours,” in return.
LMS provider WBT Systems writes about instructional design innovations that associations could borrow from “ModPo” and a few other award-winning MOOCs. Instructional designers can create educational spaces for our learners in virtual environments that let them explore “what if?” More info/register. Host: American Marketing Association.
After every ASAE Annual Conference comes a sense that camp is over and all of us go back to our regularly scheduled programs. Use MOOC for more personal development. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are changing the way we approach education. Many of the presentations were standing room only.
How grand is your association’s vision for your educational programs? Thinking small isn’t going to turn your association into a market leader and innovator, but an educational moonshot will. Educational moonshots in public schools. What’s your educational moonshot? Preparing for an educational moonshot.
How grand is your association’s vision for your educational programs? Thinking small isn’t going to turn your association into a market leader and innovator, but an educational moonshot will. Educational moonshots in public schools. What’s your educational moonshot? Preparing for an educational moonshot.
For those of us creating and providing lifelong learning, continuing education, and professional development, if we can help the adult learners we serve be better learners, they’ll learn more, they’ll apply more, and they’ll be more likely to return to us for more educational offerings. This has at two least implications.
The traditional conference meeting experience is out! People today are looking for unusual, new, innovative conference experiences. They want something that feels as fresh as their first conference experience. Here are 26 conference trends coming to an event near you. Space is the body language of your conference.
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