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In this final piece of audio content from the ASAE Annual Meeting I caught up with Jon Aleckson to talk about the growth of online games as an educational tool. Jon is CEO of Web Courseworks and also is heavily involved in GamesCanTeach. In our conversation, we discuss some of the ways in which associations might want to consider adding games to their learning mix – particularly as a way to engage a new generation of members. The clip runs about five minutes long. Click through to the original post if you don’t see the audio player below.

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This is my next to last post with audio content from the ASAE Annual Meeting. In this one, I talk with Rick Olson, from KRM Information Services, about the upswing in interest he is seeing in distance learning in the association sector. This one runs about two minutes. If you don’t see the audio player below, please click through to the original post.

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LMS Interest Increases – Comments from WBT Systems

August 19, 2009

I spoke with Brendan Noud from WBT Systems, makers of the TopClass learning management system (LMS) about WBT’s decision to exhibit at the ASAE annual meeting. A key factor was the increased interest in learning management systems that WBT is seeing in the association market. Our conversation runs about a minute and a half. Click [...]

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Virtual Conferences – Rich Finstein and Jim Thompson

August 18, 2009

Here’s a brief conversation (about three minutes) with Rich Finstein of CommPartners and Jim Thompson of the Association Executives of North Carolina about some of the opportunities and challenges represented by virtual conferences. If you don’t see the audio player below, click through to the original post. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] JTC [...]

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Moodle LMS – Comments from Jon Aleckson

August 18, 2009

As part of my ongoing series of interviews from the ASAE Annual Meeting I caught up with Jon Aleckson, CEO of Web Courseworks, to talk about the Moodle learning management system (LMS). Jon highlights the opportunities that this free, open source system presents for associations as well as some of the challenges that can come [...]

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E-learning Resurgence – Comments from Tobin Conley

August 18, 2009

In this brief interview from the ASAE Annual Meeting I talk with Tobin Conley of Delcor Technology Solutions about the resurgence that he is seeing in e-learning among associations. The audio file is about three minutes long. Click through to the original post if you do not see the audio player below. [Audio clip: view [...]

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LMS-AMS Integration – Comments from LearnSomething

August 17, 2009

As part of my ongoing series of interviews at the ASAE annual conference, I talked with Mark Lambertson of LearnSomething/Isoph about integration between association management systems (AMS) and learning management systems (LMS). The clip is about two and a half minutes long. If you do not see the audio player below, click through to the [...]

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Association New Media Summit – Peach New Media

August 17, 2009

I caught up with Ryan Graham and Johnson Cook from Peach New Media on the ASAE exhibit floor and asked them to tell me a bit about the upcoming Association New Media Summit that Peach will be hosting in October. If you don’t see the audio player below, click through to the original post. [Audio [...]

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Social Media Usage in Association Education

August 17, 2009

***Participate in the survey to update this data at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JTS8TM2 *** Here’s a brief slide deck that highlights some of the data we have collected on social media usage in association professional development programs. If you don’t see the presentation below, view it on Slideshare. You can also download a PDF with part of this [...]

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Mobile Learning – Comments from Results Direct

August 17, 2009

In this next installment of brief interviews from the ASAE annual conference, I talk with Russ Magnuson, CEO of Results Direct. Russ’s company provides the technology for the ASAE Annual Meeting hub – a great tool for informal learning at the conference – and is also behind ASAE’s “vignette” e-learning series. In this conversation, which [...]

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