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The Many Benefits of Selling Online Education to Corporate Members

WBT Systems

Even MOOCs have caught on. With Coursera for Business, companies can design learning tracks from existing courses or chose a curated “course collection” on topics like digital transformation, data science, diversity & inclusion, and more—what sounds to me like a learning pathway. Soft skills and leadership development.

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Mastering Your Craft

Thanks For Playing

Enter MOOCs ( massive open online courses ). Right now, MOOCs are great - take classes from an Ivy for free! - "But," you ask, "what happens when she realizes that she does need a class in biology (for medicine) or trigonometry (for carpentry)? And she didn't go to college!" In other words, it's not a degree program.

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A Big Course From a Small Association

Associations Now

One executive at a state association has taken the lead on educating healthcare workers on a pressing national issue via a MOOC. For Jan Grimes, it’s meant building a lot of partnerships and putting together a must-attend online course. And as with so many things involving inspired leadership, it starts with Abraham Lincoln.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 7.21.17

Reid All About it

A few years ago I took an excellent online Coursera course, Modern American Poetry. LMS provider WBT Systems writes about instructional design innovations that associations could borrow from “ModPo” and a few other award-winning MOOCs. Here’s another good article about phishing attacks—this time the focus is on chapters.

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Moose to MOOCs and 3 other articles for association executives

SCD Group

Universities bolster MOOCs for online learning By Mary Beth Marklein via USA TODAY. Leadership Is A Vital Role For Association Executives via The Forbes Group Do you see yourself as a manager? Public universities and systems in nine states say they''ll join a push to greatly expand and improve online learning. As a leader?

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Association Leadership: Lessons from Twinkie, Kodacrome & Blackberry

SCD Group

MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) that could change expectations for your association’s education, meetings, etc. Examine what is going on in society that impacts your industry or. profession: Mobile technology. Generational shift in terms of networking and connectivity tools they use/prefer.

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Deaf Advocates Sue Harvard, MIT For Lack of Online Closed Captioning

Associations Now

The National Association of the Deaf alleges that Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are violating the Americans With Disabilities Act by failing to make their online course offerings accessible to individuals who are deaf and hard of hearing. Advocates for the deaf and hard of hearing are suing two top-tier U.S.