Recently a colleague who works for a learning platform company wrote to me with a question about how the role of associations in the market for lifelong learning is perceived. Specifically, he asked, Why do you think associations aren’t mentioned as often in the broader conversation about lifelong learning/continuing education/re-skilling workforce/college-to-job gap/knowledge economy? And he […]
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Associations and the Market for Lifelong Learning
I posted this a few places back in the spring – it’s from the Tagoras Leading Learning Spring Summit – but it occurred to me recently that it really should be posted here as as well. A brief overview of why trade and professional associations can and should dominate the market for lifelong learning. (Many, […]
Talkin’ ’bout a revolution
In the late 1990s, I got some of my initial experience in online education working for a start-up that planned to capture content from top 25 business schools and channel it into community colleges. Those were heady days. We were out to change the world, and like many dotcom companies, we raised – and spent […]