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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. The course is about how to leverage networks and social media for learning and impact. 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.

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

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We spent the day grouped with new leaders in the nonprofit sector learning vital skills for leadership and management. We invite you to support our future nonprofit professionals through learning opportunities beyond the classroom at no additional cost to the student. The future is here — we are its leaders!

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What Makes Social Learning so Interesting?

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Social learning, relied solely on what one could obtain in a classroom setting, working with direct peers, or what could be conveyed back in forth on a phone. Social Learning can best be defined as working with others to understand ideas, concepts, and procedures. Those days are now extraordinarily a thing of the past.

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The 6 Hottest Training Technologies That You Can’t Overlook

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Struggling with gaps in talent and skills, organizations are starting to invest more heavily in technologies to predict their training requirements, understand their learners and to create exciting ways to deliver training and learning to their employees.

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Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Don’t run to play Mario just yet though — the game has to be specially designed to fill in lapses in brain activity from the start!

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You also need to consider the learning environment, any constraints, the delivery options, and the timeline for the project. I have learned the feng shui of how classroom setup impacts interaction and learning. I have learned the feng shui of how classroom setup impacts interaction and learning.

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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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