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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

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Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. I was able to pull this off because my course took place in the Digital Learning Commons “ D-Space ” – a state of the art flexible classroom space. The flexible classroom is a large open space.

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

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For the past five years, I’ve been an adjunct professor at Middlebury College in Monterey teaching a graduate course called “ Networked International Organizations ” for students pursuing an advanced degree in International Development. That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces.

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

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Classroom style with desks puts a barrier between the students and the instruction, especially when people are using laptops or tablets to take notes. Classroom style with desks puts a barrier between the students and the instruction, especially when people are using laptops or tablets to take notes.

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Exploring the Role of Apprenticeship in Today’s Economy with Tal Frankfurt + Robert Lerman

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More importantly, apprentices are hired as full-time employees whereas interns are often unpaid, or at best part-time or temporary employees. And don’t forget the opportunity cost of going to school full time. Salesforce is a perfect example of a platform that’s powering business, but is very rarely taught in college classrooms.

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

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At the time, Rufina was the CEO of Nasscom Foundation and transforming the nonprofit technology sector with her incredible networking, scaling, and capacity building skills. They start the day with a student posting an inspirational quote on the board. My favorite was the world time zone calculator. www.enteef.com.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Reflections on Designing and Delivering Training To Get Results

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She said the workshop gave her the time to get started working on it and was confident that she’d be putting it into practice immediately. Design for Different Levels of Capacity and Skills: Adapt in Real Time. The secret is in the structure and design of the small group exercises. So, you have to design for that.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

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Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them.