General Resources

Three and a half weeks may have somehow slipped passed (what happened to summer?) since the 2012 ASAE Annual Meeting in Dallas, but I want to highlight the companies focused on technology-enabled learning that were on the floor at the accompanying expo.

The cost to show up and exhibit at ASAE is not insignificant, and so being there indicates, to my mind, that these organizations are serious about the business of continuing education and lifelong learning in the association market.

Since tracking these types of technologies are part of what we routinely do here at Tagoras, being able to walk the floor and check in with companies was a valuable part of the conference experience. In fact, we recorded some interviews with exhibitors at ASAE, and we’ll be releasing those videos over the coming weeks (look for the first next week), to lead up to the release of our new Association Learning Management Systems report (http://www.tagoras.com/lms-report) this fall.

The alphabetical list that follows provides a blurb on the exhibitors to give you a sense of their products and services. The companies with asterisks (*) before their name are slated to be included in the new edition of Association Learning Management Systems. (Note: We conduct all of our technology research independently and do not accept finders’ fees or commissions from any learning technology providers.)

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Tips for Effective Online and Hybrid Education

To paraphrase Malcolm Knowles—the father of andragogy—adults learn best when the following conditions are met:

  • Why they need to learn something is obvious.
  • What they will learn is immediately relevant to them.
  • How to apply the learning to specific tasks or problems is clear.

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5 Links Worth Clicking

May 2, 2012

Jeff and I (really, more Jeff than I) have been tweeting, in my totally unbiased opinion, some pretty interesting things (as @tagoras). In case you missed them, I wanted to highlight five from the last couple of weeks that I’m certain (see #4 for why this’ll be a good learning opportunity for me, if nothing [...]

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9 Tips for Writing Effective Multiple-Choice Questions–and More

April 25, 2012

  Assessment is critical for learning. We know that formative evaluation helps learners consolidate knowledge as they’re taking it in, and summative evaluation gives instructors, learners, and other interested parties (associations, accrediting bodies, employers, etc.) a stick by which to measure mastery of concepts. But how do you write assessments effectively–or make sure those tasked [...]

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New Leading Learning Breakfast: The Social Learning Imperative

July 13, 2011

On August 26, we’ll hold the second event in our Leading Learning breakfast series. Clyde’s of Gallery Place will be the location once again, and we are also putting out feelers to see if there is any interest in a video stream from the event. This time around, we’ll be joined by Tony Bingham, President [...]

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12 Tips for a Successful Virtual Conference

May 10, 2011

On June 3, I’ll be leading a panel on planning and strategy for virtual conferences at the IAEE Mid-Year Meeting. As I was putting together takeways from the session yesterday, I drew upon the “20 Tips for Successful Virtual Conferences” piece that Celisa put together for our Association Virtual Conferences report and which is also [...]

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Free Webinars on Strategic Use of Learning Technologies

February 3, 2011

We had a great Webinar session on January 20 to highlight some of the key findings from our Association Virtual Conferences report. (Thanks to CommPartners for sponsoring and contributing some great thoughts on hybrid meetings to the Webinar.) We’ve now posted some additional Webinars on topics like selecting a learning management system and integrating social [...]

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A Great New – and Free! – E-learning Resource

November 16, 2010

Ellen Behrens over at aLearning has recently released a terrific set of tutorials providing examples of how to create effective e-learning with common, low-cost tools. Her aLearning Fundamentals site offers a brief tutorial on e-learning basics as well as on the fundamentals of adult learning and facilitation. Best of all, though, Ellen created these tutorials [...]

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Learning Perspectives: 2010

October 28, 2010

I actually forgot to include this one in the link digest for the recent issue of the Association Learning/Technology Digest – an open source eBook from the Masie Center: “Learning Perspectives: 2010” Contributions by 40 Global Learning Leaders http://www.learning2010.com/ebook The articles in this eBook cover the wide range of viewpoints and perspectives on the changing [...]

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Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010

October 28, 2010

I noted this one in the new issue of the Association Learning/Technology Digest that we just released, but it is worth noting on the blog as well: Jane Hart has released the final version her annual list of top 100 learning tools. Based on contributions from more than 500 learning professionals around the world, this [...]

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