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Digital Analytics Basics: Free Online Academy from Google

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They are also working on software that uses this approach in the classroom and takes the passivity and lectures out of classroom instruction. In the 60 minutes piece, it is referred to the flipped classroom or peer instruction a mindset that directs attention away from teachers and puts it squarely on the students and their learning.

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How Malala Fund’s Innovative Grantmaking is Revolutionizing Education for Girls

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During the pandemic, these local education leaders have been critical in identifying and launching initiatives that not only assist girls in continuing their education during school closures, but also help them get back in the classroom when schools reopen. Syrian refugees and Lebanese students learn for free. . . About the Authors.

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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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Web Courseworks Wins Silver for Excellence in Technology

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Web Courseworks, a leader in innovative learning management systems and virtual event technology, won a coveted Brandon Hall Group silver award for excellence in the Best Advance in Technology for Virtual-Classroom or Conferencing Technology category. To learn more visit ( [link] ). About Brandon Hall Group, Inc.

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Stories of Resilience: Annie Wright Schools

Connection Cafe

We knew it was a matter of when, not if, we’d go online,” said Jen Willey, communications director at Annie Wright Schools. Since they already used technology like gradebook and attendance platforms, they were able to quickly develop an online continuity plan to provide much-needed consistency with the in-person classroom experience.

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10 Types of eLearning Assessments for Your Courses

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Measuring this change has benefits for both your members and your learning business alike: For your learning business, understanding this change gives you insight into both the knowledge of your members and the efficacy of your courses to instruct them. For example, you could ask learners to: Create a timeline. Detail a process.

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Games for Change 2007: Funders Perspective Panel

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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. The core thrust: high performance computing, data visualization, virtual organizations, and learning and work force development.

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