A Model of Sustainability for Professional Organizations: Using a Learning Management System to Offer Continuing Education

Autor/in	Sparrow, Gregory S.
Titel	A Model of Sustainability for Professional Organizations: Using a Learning Management System to Offer Continuing Education
Quelle	In: Adult Learning, 28 (2017) 2, S.79-81 (3 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1045-1595
DOI	10.1177/1045159515595067
Schlagwörter	Sustainability; Integrated Learning Systems; Continuing Education; Professional Associations; Electronic Learning; Models + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Nachhaltigkeit; Weiterbildung; Analogiemodell
Abstract	Professional membership organizations have long maintained their exposure and revenue stream through a variety of traditional avenues, most notably memberships, sponsored conferences, and professional journals. The synergy of this three-tiered model has depended on a certain enhanced status derived from membership benefits and proprietary information that can be marketed separately to non-members. Given the recent threats to this model due to the advent of the Internet, I present an example of an organization--International Association for the Study of Dream (IASD)--which has harnessed its annual conference assets to create an online continuing education program with the help of a learning management system, Moodle. I chose this organization not only because I have been involved in this project but also because I believe IASD is one of the first membership organizations to successfully create this "fourth tier" of outreach and revenue generation. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01