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Designing Transformative Communications Capacity Building Programs for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Teaching, leaning, and training has been my passion for 20 years. Our interactive session at the Fall 2013 Communications Network Conference in New Orleans was a blend of content delivery and peer learning – a conversation about the value, different approaches and models, and best practices.

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The Triple Bottom Line in India: Software, Quality Education, and Early Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At the Sujaya School, I visited a second grade art class. I also visited the sixth grade class. In the green courtyard, there was physical education class where they teaching the kids to do stretches and exercises. Movement is also in the classroom – for example, this hop scotch board to learn spelling.

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How We Learn – Capitalize On Knowing

Gyrus

But even then, I often felt my mind drifting off in class, doodled on notes, or encountered moments where I was not motivated enough to attempt to process the course content. If John in Marketing learns best via Instructor-Lead training, and Suzy in Document Control works best in an impersonal self-instructed pathway.

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PopTech Fellows Program: Reflections

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

PopTech is an amazing blend of people, ideas, and projects. Here are some thoughts about tweaking the instructional design: Game Length and Instructional Context. All of the instruction is aligned to a network frame. . I learned a lot about how to begin to adapt the game process for people with a program orientation.

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Adventures in Participatory Audience Engagement at the Henry Art Gallery

Museum 2.0

This winter, I once again taught a graduate class in the University of Washington's Museology program. You can explore the projects in full on the class wiki. This is less true of Dirty Laundry, which required a blend of friendly invitation to participate and private spaces to contribute secrets.) This was partly my fault.

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Academic vs. Corporate LMS – Where the Lines Blur

Gyrus

Courses: We can define a course as an overall themed learning, with a set duration of weeks, comprised of many classes. Classes: a furtherance of courses, allowing for instruction and defined building block learning style. Quizzes: Occur weekly/bi-weekly to reinforce class assignments and instruction.

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The Future of the LMS

Gyrus

In the Learning and Development world training has migrated from solely instructional and self-taught. Gone are the ways of sending your employees off to week long boot camps, instead blended learning environments are becoming the norm. To completely accessible without time requirement, electronic, as well as mobile learning platforms.