Yearly Archives: 2024

Continuing Professional Education and Accountability

2025-11-14T17:54:33-06:00

Accountability in Continuing Education The evolution of continuing professional education over the last five decades has been fueled, in large part, by the objective of protecting the public.  As technology advances and society changes, professional education has been responsive to many of those advances and changes.  For example, practice management courses include new ways to streamline a practice by using the most recent technology.  As to societal changes, it may be the CE providers are falling short in meeting the needs of their learners.  After all, societal changes are complicated and scary. Case-Studies Over the last year, the #metoo movement has [...]

Continuing Professional Education and Accountability2025-11-14T17:54:33-06:00

Just Say “No!” to Summer Break

2025-11-14T18:23:25-06:00

Summer Break Learning Loss After I went out into the real world and was no longer in school, it took me a few years to get used to not having a spring or summer break.  Not that I felt entitled to time off, it was just that my body and brain felt like something wasn’t right.   It was a seasonal need that wasn’t being met.  Some continuing education providers continue to do work seasonally, and I understand why:  1.  In the early days of continuing education, providers modeled their course schedule after semesters in school, fall and spring.  Why?  I don’t [...]

Just Say “No!” to Summer Break2025-11-14T18:23:25-06:00

Boo! Tips for Getting Your Learner’s Attention

2025-11-14T18:10:32-06:00

Attention! Attention! Getting your learner’s attention and holding your learner’s attention is as important with online education as it is with in-person education.  Mandated Learning makes it a challenge to get your learner’s attention.  To be an effective presenter, it is necessary to challenge the learner to become personally motivated to pay attention.  You and your presenter should work together to design courses to get and maintain learner attention. Focus Focus is required to learn and paying attention to a lecture requires voluntary attention.  A learner chooses to learn; it is a deliberate and purposeful choice.   Dr. Joe Pulichino in his [...]

Boo! Tips for Getting Your Learner’s Attention2025-11-14T18:10:32-06:00

Valleys of Professional Practice: How CE Might Help

2025-11-14T18:47:58-06:00

Valleys of CE “All of life is peaks and valleys.  Don’t let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.” -John Wooden Some people take their work too seriously and talk about the most boring things. You know the type.  They go on and on about things that seem insignificant in the big scheme of things. While meaningful to them, it is difficult to see how it is meaningful in life. Your work, in part, does not fall into this category. Your work can absolutely save lives of patients and clients, but it can perhaps save the life of [...]

Valleys of Professional Practice: How CE Might Help2025-11-14T18:47:58-06:00

Reporting, InReach and You

2025-11-14T20:05:20-06:00

The Power of Reporting An integral function of any continuing education management system is the ability to report on your learner’s activity. Whether it’s sales data to keep an eye on your financials or completion data for reporting to a regulatory board, knowing what your learners are doing is essential to running a successful continuing education program. InReach Report Center You may know the many reports in the InReach Report Center, but sometimes you need more. You might look for a setup that our default reports do not offer. We can help with that. We have the tools and skills to [...]

Reporting, InReach and You2025-11-14T20:05:20-06:00

Net Promoter Score: How Are We Doing?

2025-11-14T21:23:26-06:00

What is a Net Promoter Score? Many continuing education providers use evaluations to assess what their learners think about an individual educational product.  Occasionally, an organization will conduct a member-wide survey to collect information on the educational opportunities provided.  Seldom, if ever, do continuing education providers conduct a Net Promoter Score (NPS) survey.  As a part of a blog series about things InReach does that you should consider doing, I propose you start doing an annual NPS survey. What is a Net Promoter Score? It represents a percentage you calculate by asking your customers or members a single question on a [...]

Net Promoter Score: How Are We Doing?2025-11-14T21:23:26-06:00
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