What Do Higher Ed Professional Associations Do? - Joshua Kim, Inside Higher Ed

Yesterday I wrote about the large number of conferences and convenings competing for the attention of those interested in postsecondary learning innovation. Almost all of these events have a professional organization behind them. In today’s lingo, they are powered by an association, consortium, or company. These professional organizations do much more than put on annual, subject-specific, and regional conferences. A partial list of the functions of higher ed professional organizations - at least in the space of learning innovation and educational technology that I know best - would include... https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology-and-learning/what-do-higher-ed-professional-associations-do