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Association eLearning vs Free Online Courses

WBT Systems

There are a multitude of blogs and articles outlining the benefits of taking free online courses for professional development to advance your career, but do these courses actually deliver the value and opportunity they profess to provide to adult learners? Lower fees for learners due to the lower costs of delivering education online.

Course 236
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12 Ways to Add Extra Value to Your Online Courses

WBT Systems

Besides offering high-caliber curriculum and instructors, how can you add extra value to your online courses and ensure they stand out from the pack? Make sure your marketing copy includes a description of these additional course benefits. 1 – Provide pre-course resources. How can you help prepare them for the work ahead?

Course 192
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What to Do If Your Association’s Online Course Failed

WBT Systems

You really thought you had a great idea for an online course. But when the course launched: crickets. After you and your colleagues put so much effort into it, how do you explain to your boss and committee chair why your online course failed? Learn why your online course failed. Is there really a market for this course?

Course 176
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How to Build Spaced Learning into Your Online Courses

WBT Systems

Introduce them to the concept of spaced learning and provide suggestions on how they can build it into their course design. If you offer prep courses for designation or licensing exams, don’t offer cram courses. Provide study tips at the beginning of the course that include guidance about spaced learning.

Course 199
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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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How to Get Useful Student Feedback on Online Courses

WBT Systems

When you collect useful student feedback on online courses, you can confidently assess and improve the effectiveness of your e-learning programs. Good feedback gives you the data you need to improve courses yourself and to make a case for hiring professional instructional designers to develop courses.

Course 188
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What Do Members Want?

Association Analytics

It’s why AMSes and of course our own analytics platform Acumen have some level of engagement scoring (some more refined or comprehensive than others). Surveys are of course a nice way to check the temperature, but all they do is show what has happened in the past. We want to know what people want from us, what they want to do next.

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