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3 Ways an Online Community Enhances Learning

WBT Systems

I bet one or more of the top results came from a message board or discussion forum for an online community, where someone else was seeking answers from their peers on a similar topic? They do this through a variety of platforms including websites, social media, email, and increasingly through online communities.

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Why Digital Badges are the Future of Association Education

WBT Systems

Drive engagement in the Association community. Export for display in other platforms and social media. Without the ability to share digital badges to social media and other platforms, the value of digital badges as a form of micro-credentialing is diminished for members. Increase course completion rates.

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OpenBadges: Increasing Visibility of Association Education

WBT Systems

Association membership brings together people with shared professional interests, providing a community in which members support, network, and share experience within their industry. This is leading to the availability of several platforms offering digital badge solutions , including a few learning management systems, such as TopClass LMS.

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The 3 C’s of Social Learning for Associations

WBT Systems

Like many individuals and organizations in modern society, associations maintain social media profiles for sharing content of interest to their members. Many people assume that social learning emerged with the development of social media, but this is not the case.

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Focus on Millennial Learners to Benefit Members of All Ages

WBT Systems

Millennial students prefer a less formal learning environment that allows them to interact informally with the professor and fellow students, so incorporate opportunities for collaboration, through social media or online communities. Make your teaching relevant. Provide experiential and exploratory learning opportunities.

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Unlock Your eLearning Differentiator & Iconic Advantage

WBT Systems

Talk to students about the different aspects of their experience: instructors, curriculum, materials, delivery formats, learning community, LMS features, and, most importantly, impact. Help students develop lasting relationships within a learning community ? End up being so enjoyable (even fun) that students keep coming back for more?

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Keeping Up - April's Big Question

eLearning Cyclops

However, being involved in an e-learning community is a big help. For me it is a blog community and following many experts on Twitter. Many of the blogs I follow are part of the eLearningLearning community. This is in reference the immense and rapidly expanding technology tools.