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One of the most important roles today's leaders fulfill is managing their organization's learning...

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Thinking beyond “send only” learning will put your business above the rest. We often design...

Associations tend to view continuing education courses in a very mechanical way. Information is...

  We’ve all sat in this lesson beginning. Heck, we’ve all designed this lesson beginning. It’s the...

Increasingly, organizations are realizing the value of using data analytics to create highly...

One of the most challenging parts of e-learning design is delivering content that both satisfies...

It’s safe to say that most online learners are busy. Especially for those earning certifications...

Millennials continue to be a hot topic around the online learning space, and the biggest question...

Now, more than ever, association professionals understand the importance of delivering meaningful...

When designing an online course, whether you are starting from scratch, or updating a pre-existing...

When you begin to develop an online learning environment two factors are in play: 1) You have...

The Institute for Learning Environment Design (ILED), a partnership between NextThought and the...

Last week, Dan Meyer shared the Desmos guidelines for building great digital math activities. Not...

The trends pointed out by the Pew Research Center in its recent report on Book Reading 2016 are a...

Ambient Insight has just released a report that predicts a sharp decline worldwide in the...

The Awkward Translator A key to designing and creating effective learning solutions is to remove...

Beginning with What vs. How Often, learning technology companies focus their product messaging on...

It’s not uncommon we encounter an organization with a strong desire to deliver an innovative...

Three questions for an effective networked learning environments for professional development.   ...

One of the most common learning design questions I’m asked is, “How can I get learners more engaged...

For today’s learning environment architect, synchronous communication tools are an important and...

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of attending Virginia Tech’s Conference on Teaching Large Classes,...

Most people who work in organizations are familiar with and are, sometimes, resigned to the reality...

Beginning last fall, NextThought began integrating Learning Environment Modeling (LEM) and the LEM...

I do a good bit of design thinking research related to learning design and and I’ve found design...

Today’s learning environment design challenge was prompted by a discussion I read in the online...

Next Thursday, on May 26, ILED will host its first Design Studio Session: Open Content in...

All too often our discussion about e-learning becomes a constraint exercise that begins with the...

We’re a week away from the launch of the first course in The Institute for Learning Design’s...

Yesterday I had the pleasure of sitting down to chat with Ratul Dev, our visiting Fellow from the...

Dan Meyer gave yet another thought provoking presentation about math education at the recent  2016...

A couple of weeks ago, I had a chance to sit down and chat about a wide range of topics with Jon...

I'm presenting today at the T-Summit 2016 in Washington D.C. This is a conference focused on...

  On Friday, I had the good fortune to spend the afternoon discussing learning design with our...

When it comes to creating engaging and personalized learning experiences, one of the constraints we...

Here’s some good news – content is not the problem. The difference between online courses that are...

A frequent question I hear from our partners is, “How can we make our online course content more...

Much of our current work at NextThought with our partners focuses on designing learning environment...

Companies and academic institutions have turned increasingly to online learning models in order to...

One of the biggest opportunities for effective course re-design, when it comes to learner...

  While attending the Big XII Teaching and Learning Conference last week, I had the opportunity to...

AssociationsNext is a service provided to the association community by NextThought. It offers free...

These micro-learning modules range from 20 to 60 minutes in length and feature some of the leading...