New! For Fall
Exciting new professional development opportunities for fall are led by our new LERN C.E. Model Institute that premiered this spring.
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A Field Divided
Vaccinations for your program participations has created a huge issue for the field. The two major topics: 1.Whether to mandate vaccinations for in-person class participants; and 2.Coping with the resulting revenue problems for programs accepting non-vaccinated people for in-person classes.
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Blow Up the Silos: Must Read
Your Must-Read article this month is “Blow Up the Silos,” the new Recommendation from LERN that was created by your fellow LERN leaders and colleagues.
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New! Optimizing Brochure Layout
Find out how relocating even a few courses in your print brochure can generate tens of thousands of dollars in additional revenue and profit. No-cost tips on the right pages and page locations to place your best classes to optimize registrations.
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In-Person Wave Starts
Here’s the latest from your colleagues around North America, from just-held LERN Leader meetings.
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New! Survey Responses Needed
Answers to one of the most popular questions LERN members ask: How Many Responses Do I Need to a Survey?
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New! Integrated Marketing
“Integrated Marketing Certificate” leads off the new LERN/UGotClass Courses premiering in September.
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LERN Member Retreat Coming
Tell us what’s on your mind. Find out what your colleagues are thinking about.
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Feel Good Story
Here’s our latest LERN heroine story.
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LERN's One Year Business Plan Webinar
You must have a strategic plan supported by a one-year business plan.
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Preparing for the WAVE
A wave of in-person registrations is expected for lifelong learning programs. But many programs, having just had cutbacks and fewer resources, are not prepared.
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New! April Events
Two big new events are taking place in April. Check em out.
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Confusion a Crisis?
There’s too much confusion and misinformation revolving around lifelong learning programs and continuing education, says LERN President William A. Draves.
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Young/Old Split
Children, youth and their parents want to get back to in-person classes, LERN leaders unanimously agreed in recent meetings.
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COVID Takes Top LERNie
Laura Wetherald, a Senior LERN Leader, past Chair of the LERN Recreation Council, and one of the leading recreation professionals in the field, passed away recently due to COVID.
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What You’re Doing Right
From our exclusive survey of lifelong learning programs, here’s the top things you are doing right in 2021.
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Triple Your Return
It takes no time. And it doesn’t cost anything more.
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FREE Course: Managing Remote Workers
Gain a 21st Century skill for the rest of your career.
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Another New Record For UGotClass
February 2021 set another new all-time monthly record for registrations for UGotClass.
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Feel Good News
Our LERN hero did it again.
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New! Resilience Training
By popular demand, your 2021 New Year’s Resolution, take care of yourself. So you can take care of your staff and your community.
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Your Worst 2021 Mistake Already
Just a few weeks into 2021, and we already know the worst 2021 mistake you are making. From our exclusive survey of what you plan to do, and not plan to do, in 2021, we have the results.
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New! Live Online Listing Site
Excitement across North America over LERN’s new service that starts on February 1, exclusive to members.
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New Spring Programs
Your Career. Your Move. Here’s the new spring programs from LERN. Plus get the most comprehensive and intensive professional development in the field with our online Institutes.
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Your Top Info Needs
You told us. We listened. Here’s your Top 3 information needs for 2021 for which you asked LERN to help.
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Online Still Hot Now
Online learning is still hot now. And that surge in online learners won’t cool down after the pandemic.
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New! LERN Forecasts
By request. LERN predicts the future for the field of lifelong learning. We talk about the hot issues today. We suggest answers. And we offer controversial cutting-edge ideas and strategies.
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Your 2021 Game Plan
If you have not yet read our “Your 2021 Game Plan Checklist,” get it in the LERN Club, now.
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The Best Faculty Development
The Certified Faculty Developer (CFD) professional development and designation is the leading program and designation in higher education.
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First 2021 Happy News
For the second time, a LERN member program has gotten its own U.S. postal stamp. The Chicago Botanic Gardens has its own stamp, part of the “American Gardens” series of stamps.
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December MUST READ
Your 2021 Game Plan Checklist, just out. A way for you to review the Top 20 Recommendations from LERN on Your 2021 Game Plan.
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Historic Ending
A surprise ending to the historic Fall 2020 session in the field of lifelong learning programming. Some 1,500 people at the first LERN Virtual Conference created history itself for the field, creating a whole new model for virtual conferences.
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Pioneering Breakthroughs
New strategies for increased effectiveness for the field premiered at the big LERN Virtual Conference this fall. At least three pioneering breakthroughs won International Awards. Here’s two every program should adopt.
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Thank you for your work this year!
You made enormous contributions to your community and audience this year. You stressed out. You lost money. People bitched. Yet your sacrifice has paid off in ways you know not.
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New! Contact Tracing
Make money and serve your community with LERN’s new Contact Tracing Training Program.
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SQL Now Monthly
SQL, one of the four certificates in LERN’s new Data Science program, is now being offered monthly, year round.
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Top #1 Priority: You
You can’t take care of your community if you don’t take care of yourself, LERN’s Senior Vice President Julie Coates warns.
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Personal $ Tips
Having been through numerous recessions over the past 50 years, LERN offers you this Optional information regarding your personal finances in the pandemic.
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COI Largest Ever
More Certified Online Instructors (COI) have been certified this year than any year since its founding twenty years ago.
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Happy Trends
The happy news continues for December. Enjoy.
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Fall Session Historic
Historic, and pioneering. That’s the Fall 2020 session. You are not only seeing the first full session responding to the ongoing pandemic situation. You also are seeing the first session fully addressing online classes.
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LERN Saves The Field
The field of lifelong learning was saved, once again, by LERN this Fall 2020. We were the only organization or person to recommend you keep your print brochure.
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You Set Another Record!
You generated a record number of UGotClass registrations for September. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
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Big Numbers for the LERN Virtual Conference!
Over 100 organizations and over 2,000 individuals will be attending!
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Your 2021 Game Plan
It’s now time to look at your program’s game plan for 2021. With the uncertainty of the pandemic situation either continuing or in fluctuation, your programming needs to reflect the reality of that external environment.
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UGotClass 2021 Recommendations
Based on the record registrations for this fall, here’s our recommendations to increase your UGotClass registrations and income in 2021.
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Membership Strong
Even during these tough times of budget cuts and reduced income, LERN Members are staying with LERN, and staying strong.
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What LERN Has Done For You Recently
LERN Membership continues to be strong. Here’s what LERN has done for you recently. We got more good stuff comin at ya this fall.
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Happy News
News you might not have seen to keep your hopes up, and your work strong, during the pandemic.
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This is Personal
Many of your LERN staff have had personal experience with the protests and police action, being located in the Twin Cities metro area. And one of our staff on the west coast had a first floor shop in her apartment building looted. So this is personal for many of your LERN staff.
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All Eyes on Fall
What to offer, when, what about online, and the print brochure huge issues facing every lifelong learning program right now. Fall 2020 will be like no other session, what they call “unprecedented.”
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LERN Summer News
Continuing to lead the field of lifelong learning programming during the pandemic, and after, here’s the latest news about LERN. The 7 top highlights.
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Ramp up Fall online now!
Now is the time to plan your offerings and promotion for Fall UGotClass certificates and courses. Unless you are Top 25 Partner (you’re not, so keep reading) here’s what to offer to maximize your income and revenue from online.
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New! Hot! Data Science Online
The most popular new skill set in North America right now is Data Science. UGotClass has just added a whole new Data Science category of four certificates (12 courses) to the fall line up.
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UGotClass Demo
Regular free UGotClass Briefing webinars are now being held for people interested in becoming a Partner.
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Members-Only
Exclusive to LERN members, LERN is producing both webinars and articles with Recommendations on the top issues for your program right now.
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What’s New at LERN
Huge attendance at our almost-daily webinars, new research into the top pandemic issues for member programs, and a new plan to ramp up your program with online are the top 3 services for members this month. Here’s the list.
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New Brochure Crisis
Perhaps because of the budget woes the pandemic has produced, central administrators are starting to revisit a disastrous move that almost killed the entire field of lifelong learning over the past five years.
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Why Your Testimonials Count
Thanks for the many testimonials we have been getting from our pandemic special webinars, information and Exclusive Members-Only Recommendations.
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Ramp Up Online
Online, even after the pandemic, will keep growing. Online now needs to be a part of your offerings moving forward.
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FREE Webinars
Free webinars for you, teachers in your institution and even your customers in your community are now being held almost daily by LERN.
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Do Your Online Courses Suck?
If your students start to fall off in participation. If your teachers ask how to improve their courses. If you are planning to keep doing online courses past the next two months.
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You Told Us So
Thanks to you members who have asked for new LERN services and information during the pandemic.
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Your Next Print Brochure
It’s one of the top questions programmers are asking LERN right now. And we have the answers.
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Jaw Dropping! News
A new survey, conducted by an independent objective source, shows that LERN is giving 75% of our members a whopping $25,000 a year in additional income!
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3 Benefits of Your Aging Workforce
More people past age 70 are still working today than a decade ago. And they bring 3 benefits of value to your workforce.
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Thanks for Aid
Thanks to LERN members who contributed to the earthquake relief efforts in Puerto Rico. Over $1,000 was raised for the effort to buy food and medical supplies to help the victims of on the ongoing earthquakes.
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Survey Coming
Some 130 LERN member programs have responded so far. If you have not yet responded to our Program Survey, you shortly will be getting another request to complete it.
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Operations Top 7 Trends
Operations is possibly the fastest growing area of lifelong learning programming right now. It is key to profitability. The upcoming first-ever Operations Conference has great registrations already. From the upcoming conference, here’s a sneak preview of the top 7 trends.
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Members Top 1,000 for Feb
LERN Members generated more than 1,000 registrations for February UGotClass online courses, one of the best ever for the month.
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Garage Band Rock Camp
What started off as a little idea soon became the “little engine that could” for Sanford Community Education in Springville, Maine. Slowly, more and more local musicians joined the cause to create what would become Sanford’s weeklong summer camp for musically-minded students, mentored by local rock musicians.
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JKT and Fred Retire
We are both sad and grateful to Julia King Tamang and Fred Bayley for their work with LERN. They each did outstanding presentations at the big LERN annual conference in San Diego, unfortunately their last LERN conference.
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2019 LERN Courses of the Year
Here are the Courses of the Year LERN has selected from many excellent submissions. It was hard to choose with so many programs doing such great work out there.
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