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8 New Ideas for Engaging Online Students

For many adults, taking a class online is a new learning experience. Even learners with the best intentions can get distracted when they’re supposed...

How to Validate an Online Course Idea

New players in the online learning market are bringing fresh ideas to online course development and marketing. They’re making millions of dollars in...

How to Build an Online Learning Program with a Limited Budget

It’s frustrating when you’re the only one in your office who can see the future. You know your association should provide online learning programs to...

Learning Pathways: How to Fill Your Industry’s Skills Gap

If you ever hiked up a mountain without the help of a trail, you know how frustrating and, sometimes, dangerous it can be. You might head off along a...

9 Ways to Increase Online Student Engagement

If you’ve taken a continuing education class, you’ve seen how students fade away over time. People get busy. They have trouble making class and...

Why (and How to) Design Association Education for Young Professionals

Millennials will make up nearly half the U.S. workforce by 2020. Generational definitions vary but most characterize millennials (or Generation Y) as...

Flipped Learning Increases the Value of Conference Education

Everyone knows that sitting in an audience listening passively to a speaker is not an effective way for adults to learn, yet that’s still the norm at...

10 Secrets of Online Course Design from Award-Winning MOOCs

If you want to see engaging, transformative online course design in action, add a little poetry to your life. An online Coursera course, Modern...

How to Build Spaced Learning into Your Online Courses

Spaced learning isn’t about the education of astronauts or space cadets. Spaced learning is an approach to teaching that helps students retain the...

Holistic Principles For Performance Support Applications in eLearning

eLearning designer Steven Loomis and WBT Systems Head of Design and UX, James Sheil, look at emerging technologies, such as performance support...

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