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How I learned to stop yawning and love the Zoom Room

Candid

In a classroom, everyone knows who walks through the door—but sometimes in Zoom, that’s not clear. If you are lecturing, showing slides, otherwise not engaging the audience for more than 10 minutes, something needs to change. Encourage group discussions and don’t be afraid to speak directly to an audience member.

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Trainer’s Tip: Your Room Set Up Can Make or Break the Learning Experience

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As a long-time trainer, professor, and teacher, I feel strongly that interactive learning activities – going beyond the death by Powerpoint Lecture – is the key to retention and application for participants. Your room set up can support your instructional activities that engage participants or get in the way.

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Incorporate These Three Learning Styles When Teaching Employees Something New

Eric Jacobsen Blog

These employees are “tell-me” learners, who thrive in classroom settings. Lectures and class discussions are effective training tools. They do well in independent environments where they set their own pace. Auditory learners learn by listening. Tactile learners learn by doing.

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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. Therefore, I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand how the feng shui of a classroom impacts learning. Circles without tables, just chairs helps promote group discussion. The flexible classroom is a large open space.

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Trainer’s Notebook: The Importance of Hands-On Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As a long-time trainer, professor, and teacher, I feel strongly that interactive learning activities – going beyond the death by Powerpoint Lecture – is the key to retention and application for participants. Your room set up can support your instructional activities that engage participants or get in the way.

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Peeragogy: Self Organized Peer Learning in Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Peeragogy comes from Howard Rheingold via his Social Media Classroom and he explains it here: When I participated in the Change: Education, Learning, and Technology MOOC , I grew even more interested in the intersection of digital media/networks with self-directed learners and collaborative learning methods. .” It resonated.

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At AFP Lead in Houston, Nonprofit Leadership Alliance students prepare for leadership liftoff

ASU Lodestar Center

We listened to lectures, participated in reflections and had the chance to hear about real life experiences in the sector. On Friday we also got the opportunity to work with other NLA students from universities all around the country to discuss hot topics around the nonprofit sector, which we presented on our final day.

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