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Because this tends to be a particularly fertile time of year for insights and ideas, this is a longer edition of Leading Links than usual. You can still get substantial benefit from skimming it, but … … as with all editions of Leading Links, we hope you will embrace the mind of a true lifelong …
Leading Links 2020, Issue 10 Given that we usually send Leading Links out the last Tuesday of the month, and that tends to conflict with holidays in November and December, we’ve combined the two months into a single issue that we’re sending our a bit earlier (or later). A few quick items before this month’s …
One of the challenges with virtual conferences – particularly with there now starting to be many, many more of them as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic – is that it is pretty easy for them to feel like bunch of Webinars strung together. The topics covered in each session are obviously somewhat related, and …
We have been tracking and reporting on virtual conferences—not to mention hosting our own—for years, but clearly interest in and demand for them has skyrocketed in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, interest in finding the best virtual conference platforms has also risen dramatically. In this post, we aim to highlight and …
I first posed this question in a post published in 2014. At the time, I framed it as “not such a crazy question” given the growing criticism of higher education as well as the emergence of myriad options for self-directed learning and the rise of alternative forms of credentialing. Roll forward six years, and the …
This is a guest post contributed by Web Courseworks. One of the biggest benefits of joining a professional association is the continuing education (CE) opportunities membership provides. After joining an association, members are able and encouraged to meet with other professionals in their field and complete credits and certifications that will advance their careers and …
In the business of adult lifelong learning, whether a prospective learner will choose to participate in an educational experience you offer and how much she is willing to pay (if anything) depends on a range of intersecting factors, but four stand out in my experience. Capability To what extent do I believe this experience will …
I like to revisit periodically the concept of “leading learning” to reflect on what it means. Our current context seems like a particularly important one for doing this. A significant part of leadership, it seems to me, is to help people make their way into the future successfully. We can’t, of course, predict the future, …
Below you will find links to the recording and slides for “A Why-To and a How-To: Virtual Conferences in the COVID-19 Era” Webinar. Webinar Recording and Slides Note: You can use the expansion arrows at the bottom right of the video to expand it to full screen. Presentation slides (PDF) Transcript (PDF) Resource Links The …
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Over the years we’ve developed many resources to support learning businesses in growing and improving. Few, if any, of them are intended to be “one and done” – they are meant to be revisited and re-used over time. So, we find it can be helpful occasionally to highlight some of these resources and remind Leading …
When it comes to training design, perhaps focusing on what people need to be able to do, not simply what they need to know, can make all the difference. That’s because this leads to activity-centered training rather than traditional information presentations. These concepts are what led Cathy Moore, speaker, training designer, and author of Map …
