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Take an Integrated Approach to Education with a Learning Strategy

You would never let a contractor remodel your kitchen without a blueprint, or drive to a new destination without using Waze or Google Maps. Like all...

How to Get Useful Student Feedback on Online Courses

When you collect useful student feedback on online courses, you can confidently assess and improve the effectiveness of your e-learning programs....

What If Your Association Can’t Afford an Instructional Designer?

Great news: you got the go-ahead to offer a new online course. Now, the bad news: you didn’t get the budget to hire a professional to design and...

How to Present a Business Case for a New LMS

Do you ever daydream about having a new learning platform? Your wish can come true if you know how to make a persuasive case for a new learning...

How to Prepare a Business Case for a New LMS

Do you feel like giving your learning platform a heave-ho out the door? But you can’t, not yet anyways. As dysfunctional and frustrating as that old...

How to Build an Online Learning Sponsorship Program

When associations think about sponsorship opportunities, events usually come to mind first. However, by focusing only on in-person event...

How to Sunset an Educational Program

A note for the meeting planner: please order decaf for the next committee meeting. Only 30 minutes in and your highly energetic committee members...

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...

Your Education Team Needs an Association Intrapreneur

Are you feeling restless at work? Itching to have a positive impact on your association and industry? Worried your online learning programs might be...

How to Think Like a Futurist

Every January, articles about trends take over the internet. You’ve probably read a few yourself—including, we hope, the one published here last week...

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