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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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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.

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Happy New Year: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

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This year I took off a full two weeks during the holiday, spending time with family on the Big Island on a coffee farm and mostly offline. One thing I feel strongly about is that if you want to be a great facilitator or teacher, that you should live in a particular method and iterate on it for at least a year, if not longer.

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Happy, Healthy 2016: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

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Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods. I also taught networked leadership workshops as part of a larger team working with different social change networks. When I look back on 2015, it was a very rich and productive year.

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[VIDEO] Power Of Community In Strategic Planning

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So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. ” We were floored that half the students were raising their hands. We then gave them access to referrals and you know what, 90% of the students did not follow up on the referrals. They had to deal with their own students and their own curriculum.