Welcome to the aLearning Blog! Our focus here is on elearning for associations — particularly trade associations.
If you snoop around the Web as much as I do, you haven’t found very many sites, blogs, forums, or other resources specializing in this area. If you have, send them along and we’ll post them.
Most organizations are devoted to corporate e-learning and to companies (or internal departments) that develop e-learning. Maybe that’s because online learning has come to associations more gradually than to corporations, higher education, and the military.
Large associations who serve members who have to keep professional certifications current have gotten onboard. Online courses offer the perfect solution to the challenge of getting the requirements completed on time in the midst of complicated professional and personal lives. Online learning, we all know, can eliminate the need for travel, which means learners can study at home or at the office, preserving a greater semblance of work-life balance.
But there are other reasons associations are starting to pursue online learning. Read the rest of this entry »
