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I spent several weeks in Spain this summer, and, early on in my travels, I found myself at a café, trying to decide what to eat. I saw sándwich mixto on the menu board. I’m not fluent in Spanish, but I know sándwich mixto translates to mixed sandwich. But what’s a mixed sandwich? And what …
What if you enrolled in a graduate program and then never really graduated? Instead, after an initial immersive experience, you are able to access “mini-courses” and other resources as they actually apply throughout your career. As a result, you are able to move from “learn-learn-learn-certify-wait-wait-wait-deploy” – often not very effective as a way of transferring …
Social Learning in the Association Space, sponsored by Meridian Knowledge Solutions, is packed with data on how associations are using social technologies as part of their learning initiatives. It also offers a range of brief case studies. Get the report with no strings attached just by clicking the link below. (No strings – but we would …
As a complement to our free report paper on social learning in the association space, I thought I’d share some thoughts on social learning for associations and why it is so important. (For how I define social learning, see “How to Define Social Learning”.) The following points certainly aren’t exhaustive, but hopefully they will be enough to …
“Exploring the Fringe: Flipping, Microcredentials, and MOOCs,” our latest white paper, defines these three fringe formats—dubbed “fringe” because our research shows that none has above a 10-percent adoption rate among associations—and then looks at when each might make sense for an association to pursue and factors to consider before jumping on the trendy bandwagon. You …
Sunday I listened to poetry. And I was reminded of the benefit of slow content. Particularly when it comes to learning. We know the benefits of slow food. But the idea of slow content hasn’t caught on yet—though today’s hyperconnected, always-on, content-marketed-to-its-teeth world world is ripe for it. For a few hours Sunday I got …
I’m working on a new survey (on social technologies for learning—keep an eye out for its release in the coming days), I’ve been spending some time in SurveyMonkey, and I came back across a tiny survey we did before our Assessing Your Market for Education Products Webinar in February. Twenty-five Webinar registrations took the time …
As Associations Now recently reported, the International Studies Association (ISA) has a proposal on the table that would prohibit editors affiliated with its journals from blogging. Steve Saideman, political scientist and member of the ISA Governing Council, posted the text of the proposal on his personal blog. The Executive Committee requests that the Governing Council …
Value. Value results from the interplay of quality and price—when you meet or exceed customers’ expectations at a price point they find fair, you provide value. Value is externally focused. Value is in the eye of the customer.
The pace of change in the market for lifelong learning, continuing education, and professional development remains brisk. Whether online or off, there are new opportunities and challenges to be found everywhere, and in many ways, what happens over the course of the next few years will shape how we think about lifelong learning for a …
Originally published January 28, 2014 on the Tagoras Web site. Major revision here >> ** It’s not such a crazy question to ask these days, even if only as a rhetorical exercise to help you develop a long term vision and strategy. Consider the heat that higher education has taken lately. Tuition costs are high …
In our recent Association Learning + Technology report (which is available for free download) we reported that association adoption of trendy new learning approaches like massive open online courses (MOOCs), gamification, digital badges, and flipped learning has been relatively limited so far. Fewer than 10 percent of respondents indicated they have experimented with these formats. …