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I didn’t even watch Project Runway this year, but earlier this month I met Justin LeBlanc, one of this season’s finalists. He was being interviewed on My Carolina Today, as was I (in my poetry guise). LeBlanc teaches at North Carolina State University in Raleigh (just down the road from Tagoras headquarters), and he used …
In conjunction with our free Webinar “Assessing Your Market for Education Products,” we released the Market Insight Matrix, a tool for managing a rigorous but still practical market assessment process to identify learning products that will address market needs. One of the asking activities you can use to assess your market is the tried-and-true focus …
Yesterday I attended the eLearning Guild’s Webinar “Collecting *Useful* Learning Data.” They had me at the title—that asterisk-sandwiched word useful is oh so important.
I love language—I’m a part-time poet and a full-time grammar geek. So my short commute got sweeter yesterday when I caught Lucy Kellaway (the management columnist at the Financial Times) on BBC Newshour, “tackling” the abuse of language. (Kellaway’s commentary starts around the 24-minute mark of the podcast. You can also read her comments on …
This post has nothing to do with singing (you wouldn’t want to hear me singing anyway; Jeff, yes, but not me) and everything to do with the two types of massive open online courses, or MOOCs: cMOOCs and xMOOCs.
In the June issue of ASTD’s T+D magazine, there’s an article by John Coné titled “Look Before You Leap Into Mobile Learning.” He asserts organizations shouldn’t jump into m-learning simply because it’s the next shiny thing or because it seems like everybody else and her mother are doing it. Rather, think about whether mobile learning …
In the past week I’ve read two recent pieces on Millennials, or Gen Yers, and the pieces provide a nice point and counterpoint. Namely, here’s what Millennials want and believe, and here’s why it’s ridiculous to talk about what Millennials, monolithically, want and believe.
A few weeks ago, I mentioned the idea of minimum viable product in a post on market assessment called “Are You Testing Like You Should?“ Today I wanted to provide more detail about what a minimum viable product is—and how you can use it in your association’s education business.
The issue of college education—is it still relevant? is it worth the financial investment? what are the alternatives?—has cropped up on on my radar several times of late. Last Tuesday the Brookings Institution issued the report Should Everyone Go to College? (Spoiler alert: The answer to the report title’s question is no.) Last Wednesday Diane …
Or maybe I should ask, “What Do You Really Know About Your Education Market?” The problem is I don’t know which question I should ask—unless I test which blog post title is most effective. When we think about learning and education, testing inevitably comes up. Should we offer a pre-test and a post-test? How many …
You probably know it better as Tin Can, the popular name that’s stuck and been embraced by Rustici Software (the developers of the API), although Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) prefers calling it the Experience API, or even xAPI. No matter what we call it, though, it’s the first step in a comprehensive vision for the …
A few weeks ago I learned about Blake Boles and Zero Tuition College (which you can learn more about in a five-minute video by Boles). Boles challenges college education specifically—why pay $20,000 a year for the “opportunity” to accumulate a sizable debt and graduate with unsure job prospects? why not invest that money and time …