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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

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The ability to “shift” delivery formats – from say an interactive lecture to small group activities helps students pay more attention. Research about the physical space can impact learning, can be found here. If you are trying to do an interactive lecture, it dampens interaction.

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How to Keep Donors Engaged Using Emerging Technologies

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Pencils of Promise (PoP) was founded in October 2008 to help build safe and healthy learning environments for young children worldwide. People naturally form connections through interactions on social media platforms like Twitter, Discord, Instagram, and Facebook. The answer, simply, is to give people what they want!

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How to Design an Effective Nonprofit Staff Retreat: A Lesson from Life

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Pre-work would prime me for the learning objectives. There would be plenty of activities that asked me to think hard, interact with colleagues, move around the room, and spend some time in personal reflection. Following up on this intention, the planners presented activities that made this possible.

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Getting the Most out of your Social Learning Program

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With so many social elements making their way into our learning programs today, learning professionals are faced with the all too real decision of how many social facets should be included in their learnings before they become a distraction. Are there already social components in your current learning mix that you are using?

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The 6 Hottest Training Technologies That You Can’t Overlook

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Virtual Environment and Avatars: Virtual learning environments bring the social interaction part of traditional classroom training into the e-learning world. for delivering training and are creating similar virtual environments to bring the human touch into their e-learning environment.

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What Pokémon Go Means to the Learning Industry

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So, how can this apply to the corporate learning environment? With the application’s GPS interface to Google Maps, landmarks are chosen as places for increased activity. Not only does this get a user out of the house away from their televisions, but it also makes them be active and run around cityscapes.

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Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play

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Several nonprofits have successfully interacted with, and more importantly, seen impact from, these engaged new audiences. GlassLab ( [link] ) explores the potential for existing, commercially successful digital games to serve both as potent learning environments and real-time assessments of student learning.