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I had the pleasure of keynoting at the Michigan Society of Association Executives’ 2015 OrgPro conference recently and along the way I was fortunate to learn about the organization’s efforts with online learning. Given that we’re aiming to offer more examples and case studies on the Tagoras site, it was a timely connection to make. While …
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 …
To wrap up 2011 and tee things up for 2012, I reached out to a number of colleagues at associations, learning technology firms, and other consulting firms across the sector to get their predictions (things they think will happen) and wishes (things they think ought to happen) in association education in 2012. In the first …
As we round the corner to the end of the year, many organizations are thinking about what they can do to reinvigorate their continuing education and professional development offerings in the new year and beyond. Here are five approaches to consider:
In our just-released Association Learning + Technology: State of the Sector report (https://www.tagoras.com/catalog/association-learning-technology), Jeff and I assert that, while it has clearly arrived in the association sector, e-learning remains far from mature. In his post “Report Highlights Growing Pains of Association E-learning” on ASAE’s Acronym blog, Joe Rominiecki commented, “Surely complicating that maturation process is …
I sent out the following post in the last edition of the ALT Digest, but given that many spam filters will snag an e-mail with a lot of links in it, I thought I’d go ahead and post it here on the blog as well, just to make sure it is accessible. Jeff *** Every …
I’ve been catching up on my reading and in the process noted that the March edition of Associations Now highlights research showing a disconnect between the revenue growth association CEO’s anticipate they can achieve from online education and what they actually experienced. Here’s the rundown for the past two years for the percentage of CEOs …
In commenting on a post titled “I hate it when presenters do that,” I highlighted the following passage from the 6th edition of Malcom Knowles’ classic The Adult Learner: …by and large, the adults we work with have not learned to be self-directing inquirers; they have been conditioned to be dependent on teachers to teach …
I’ve written before about how important use cases are when selecting technology. The basic idea behind them is that choices about technology should be driven by the desired user behavior and outcomes. What should a user be able to do when using the technology and why? Only once the desired behavior and outcomes are clearly …
I wholeheartedly agree with the following two passages. One is a comment by Stephen Downes on a Garr Reynolds blog post, the other is from a blog post that Downes pointed out a while ago. Here’s the first: Connection is one thing. Engagement is something very different. Connection is about creating interaction, a voluntary state …
This is a slight revamp of a post I did a couple of years ago on a different blog. I’ve seen interest in LMS adoption by associations grow in the meantime, but I still see relatively little attention given to use cases. *** I recently received a regular e-mail update from one of the corporate …
How much does it cost, on average to license and implement an association learning management system – i.e., and LMS for for a trade or professional association? We averaged the costs provided through RFP responses from multiple LMS vendors who commonly serve the association space to determine: Here’s what we got: Keep in mind that …
