In my last posting I noted that the organizations I interact with are often concerned about how to effectively market and sell online learning—or at the very least, how to get learners to actually use the e-learning products they provide even in cases where the offerings are free. In most cases, a lack of marketing […]
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E-learning: Where are the Nonprofit Purple Cows?
Nonprofits are using e-learning (at least according to the annual Isoph and N-TEN survey on online learning in the nonprofit sector), but it is hard to find the examples of great nonprofit e-learning. Are there purple cows out there? First: Blog Spottings and Other News While it would have been a great item to work […]
Rapid E-learning, Blogs, LMSes, and more
Technology is like the flame to which otherwise rational learning professionals are drawn like moths. I witnessed this phenomenon once again last week while attending a session on e-learning at the ASAE annual conference. In the midst of a discussion of e-learning strategy, Second Life was mentioned. The next several minutes were then spent on […]
ASAE 2007-The E-learning Beat
As part of my day job I’ve had the opportunity to attend the annual meeting of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) for the past few days, and as might be expected, have done so with an eye to the vital signs of online learning in the association community. I am glad to report […]
E-learning Tools and Strategy
I noticed a little late that the “Big Question” on the Learning Circuits blog this month is “Choosing Tools?” Although it is now August, I thought I’d still take a bit of time to chime in. Specifically, the Learning Circuits post states: As compared to ten years ago when there were roughly four major authoring […]
Online Learning: What Can It Deliver
I recently became familiar with a report issued in March by dgCommunities, a project of the Development Gateway Foundation, titled Online Education: What Can It Deliver. The “report” is primarily a collection of insights and opinions from various leaders in the international effort to bring information and communications technology (ICT) to the developing world, but […]