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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For those of us who also focused on training, instruction, and professional learning for nonprofits, the New Media Consortium , has been charting the landscape of emerging technologies in teaching, learning, and creative inquiry on a global scale for the past ten years.

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Educating Medical Personnel: New Book Reviews CPD Topics

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Davis have put together what should become the de facto textbook for anyone studying to become an educator or trainer of medical practitioners. CPD communicates that today the education of clinicians is professionalized, evidence based, and a team sport. Dave Davis has a talent for conceptualizing how to teach people.

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How to Persuade your Boss to Invest in an LMS

Gyrus

A Learning Management System Means… More Time. Learning programs are resource intensive. In order to properly organize a blended learning environment without a learning management system, a great deal of time needs to be dedicated. A Verifiable Educated Workforce. Let’s face it.

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How nonprofits can benefit from knowledge management

Socialbrite

This is the type of knowledge that is codified and easy to teach. Acquiring knowledge either through research, training, and education (explicit knowledge) or through daily experiences and know-how (tacit knowledge) should be done across the organization — individually or as a group. Explicit knowledge. This type is easily shared. .

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Learning and Development: The Presidential Debate Edition

Gyrus

This projection is set to grow throughout at least the next two presidential terms, and I for one would like to help educate potential users on all of the great features of which they can be getting out of their learning environments. What can we do to make our training and development offerings exciting?

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Should Everyone Work on the Front Line as Part of their Career?

Museum 2.0

This decision fit well with my learning style--I tend to lean towards real-world experience and self-directed endeavors. Over my first year in museums, I worked at five different institutions as an educator, exhibit builder, exhibit cleaner, art model, and whatever else I could find. I appreciate that that's not true for everyone.

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Games for Change 2007: Funders Perspective Panel

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mentioned recent studies about taking laptops out of the classroom and there is a problem with using old metrics and it is important to look for new metrics and rethink learning environments in general. New learning environment puts games at the center. It is a new form of teaching, not just skill-based learning.

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