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What I’m Reading

Spark Consulting

If your definition doesn’t include what your members think , you’re in big trouble. What MOOCs will – and won’t – change about the traditional four-year college education. How important are generational differences in the workplace? Giving stuff away for free? What are you getting in return ?

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Learning from Big Learning: 15 Lessons

Leading Learning

Venture capital firms have jumped back into the game head first, massive open online course (MOOC) providers, originally rooted in universities, have gone public or been bought , and big Web firms like LinkedIn and Google have become major players. The MOOC 3. Yes, I know: most people sign up for MOOCs and never complete them.

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Association Brain Food: 5.12.23

Reid All About it

WBT Systems describes how for-profit learning platforms, like the MOOCs Coursera and EdX, make their money. WBT shares seven MOOC business model strategies you should definitely steal. Learning business. The corporate market is a growing profit center for them—and could be for your association too. Membership tiers.

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The Market for Adult Lifelong Learning

Leading Learning

Our view at Leading Learning is that lifelong learning, by definition, occurs throughout life. It’s very hard to say how large the total market for lifelong learning is, mostly because of the limited definitions of “lifelong learning” and “adult learning” that most market analysts use. Again, definitions are a big issue.

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What does the collaborative economy mean for associations?

Mizz Information

Going by that definition, I’d say the association world definitely has something to worry about. Jeremiah Owyang defines it in this post : “the Collaborative Economy enables people to efficiently get what they need from each other.”

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Smithsonian Dives Deeper Into Online Learning. What Now for Associations?

Associations Now

There’s no pressure, there’s no homework, there’s no exams—unlike a MOOC [Massive Open Online Course] where you have to show up on Tuesdays at 11:00,” said Edward Leon, chief brand officer at The Great Courses. The courses will give learners a different kind of experience. This is not the Smithsonian’s first time licensing its content.

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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

Forj

Artificial Intelligence and Predictive Modeling: As we’ve previously pointed out, it’s hard to define what AI is, and if you accept a wide definition of AI then it has been in use in eLearning for a while. As for that other definition of subscription learning, spaced learning, we are, again, all for it. All the MOOCs out there.