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Learning Analytics: Big Data Applied to Training, Teaching, and Learning

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Learning analytics is not brand new and first identified in the education area in about 2008 according to this excellent primer on Learning Analytics that found by searching the Project Navigator on the topic. It also has benefits to students themselves who can use the data to customize their participation in the class.

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5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits

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There are 5 elements key to an effective transfer or exchange of knowledge, the report suggests: Audience, Message, Method, Messenger, and Evaluation: Audience. The choice of method for transferring and exchanging knowledge will depend on the audience and the message [but] knowledge is most effectively exchanged when using multiple methodsâ?

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Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for 300 People

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I started experimenting with these concepts back in 2008 at SXSW session on Nonprofit ROI and SXSW Session on Nonprofit Crowdsourcin g as well as at the NTC in 2009 on a session mapping metrics to strategy. Real-Time networked learning is incorporating social media into your instruction – before, during, and after.

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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

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First, as with Bitcoin, the distributed ledger method is an ideal way of tying credits to individual learners’ accounts, reducing the potential for counterfeiting credits. It’s still in the realm of custom content development – not something you can assign to your staff instructional designers – but it’s cheaper to do.

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Real Time Representation - How Social Media is Changing the Face of Government submitted by Erica O'Grady 2008 marked the year of the first Twitter from inside the Oval Office. With a culture of open source designs, Instructables, wikis, and blogs, we can start an international movement.

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Scratch: An Educational, Multi-Generational Online Community that Works

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Here is the user profile by age circa July 2008 (per this report ). Everyone is instructed not to create usernames identical to their real names. For example, check out this discussion about the Monte Carlo method, Pi, and what it means to be forty. The "high ceiling" means that many adults use Scratch for their own enjoyment.