Lifelong Learning Knowledge Base Learning Objects for Industry Professionals     Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein    Marketing Marketing online classes—A white paper specifically designed to boost the performance of your promotional efforts for online courses.   Breakthrough Copywriting—A two hour audio conference featuring four top earning copywriters sharing their secrets.   How to write great class titles—Make your headings induce emotions.   Writing email copy—Several great articles on getting started with email marketing.   How search engines work—An article exploring the inner workings of search engines.   Optimizing your web site for search engines—For those of you who are really serious about optimizing for search engines, listen to a great 45-minute slide show tutorial. Click Here   Keywords and web design—The best non-techie explanation of maximizing keywords for search engine ranking.   Copyrights—An article on the basics of copyrights and fair use issues.   Demographics America's best kept secret—A Webcast that explores the future potential that exists for the lifelong learning industry.   Americans love adult education!—Participation in adult education is widespread and has been steadily increasing, according to a report by the Education Statistics Service Institute of the U.S. Department of Education.   Market Data Retrieval education statistics—A great place to identify free  statistics by geography about American educational institutions.   School Market Research Institute—More statistics and mailing lists.   Cyber education is revolutionizing teaching and learning in schools around the world—A book review with lots of interesting information about how technology is affecting education globally.   Managing Your Organization Make your meetings more productive—A mini-lesson.   How to run a brainstorming meeting—A book review with interesting information about how technology affects education globally.   Dealing with subordinates—A mini lesson with an audio Webcast.   Grant writing—Writing grant proposals to get money to make your project happen is becoming more and more common. Here are tips and resources for writing your first grant!   Managing Yourself Mind mapping, the ultimate creativity tool—A mini-lesson with an audio Webcast.   Ending procrastination—A mini-lesson with an audio Webcast.   Managing your to-do list—A mini-lesson with an audio Webcast.   Dealing with desk clutter—A min-lesson.   Dealing with paper overload—A mini-lesson.   Make your meetings more productive—A mini-lesson.     Teaching Tools and Strategies Pay attention to adult student attitudes—An audio mini lesson on adult student expectations and attitudes.   Icebreakers—Building trust and rapport with adult students can be greatly enhanced if you use appropriate interactive activities. This great resource lists dozens of games and ice breakers.   Elearning Common misconceptions about online classes—An article written to help lifelong learning professionals dispel myths about adding online classes to the curriculum.   Cyber education is revolutionizing teaching and learning in schools around the world — A book review with  interesting information about how technology affects education globally.   Technology in education — A book review with interesting information about how technology affects education globally.   Lifelong Learning Industry Associations and Resources National Center for Community Education   National Community Education Association   The American Association for Adult and Continuing Education   UK Department of Education and Learning—Division of Lifelong Learning   Site 101—Adult Education Links   Council of Chief State School Officers—State Education Agency List   About.com—Adult Education Page   UK Department of Education and Learning—Division of Lifelong Learning   Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT)     Miscellaneous Resources The Growth Strategies instructor bookmarks—A long list of links to research sites that Growth Strategies instructors use when they are stumped.   Education World—The Educator's Best Friend. The surfing is over. Here you'll find the best education links and original content the Net has to offer.