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. 

Thanks for the many testimonials we have been getting from our pandemic special webinars, information and Exclusive Members-Only Recommendations. 

Online, even after the pandemic, will keep growing.  Online now needs to be a part of your offerings moving forward. 

Free webinars for you, teachers in your institution and even your customers in your community are now being held almost daily by LERN.

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.

Thanks to you members who have asked for new LERN services and information during the pandemic.

It’s one of the top questions programmers are asking LERN right now. And we have the answers.

It’s the most important question we received this month.  And possibly the most important question ever on marketing and promotion for your program.

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.

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. 

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.

LERN Members generated more than 1,000 registrations for February UGotClass online courses, one of the best ever for the month. 

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.