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Zero-cost, maximum-impact professional development for fundraisers

Candid

Tap into the power of collaborative learning Social learning, or observational learning, proposes that we learn by observing others, a process that that can foster increased self-esteem and reduced anxiety in educational settings. Another way to learn collaboratively is to form a “book-ish club.”

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Volunteer Week: Orientation for Your Leadership

Greater Giving

Make it a Collaborative Learning Experience Instead of a traditional lecture, consider an interactive workshop format. Encourage board members and committee members to: Become Volunteer Ambassadors: They can speak at events, write testimonials, and highlight volunteer stories on social media.

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Digital Analytics Basics: Free Online Academy from Google

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The more exciting models have evolved past the traditional lecture-style instructional styles and incorporate peer learning, self-directed learning, and collaboration. Taking self-directed and collaborative learning a step further is peeragogy.

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How To Focus When You Work in An Open Office Space

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Gensler study suggests that employees need four different work areas to be productive: focus, collaborate, learn, and socialize. Such spaces offer great benefits for collaboration, transparency, knowledge sharing, learning, creativity, and team building. Based on what I observed and heard, yes!

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London Net Tuesday January - Resolutions for Learning

Amy Sample Ward

6:15-7:00 - Learning discussion groups & idea sharing. 7:00-7:20 - Collaborative learning grid & wrap up. Come with your ideas for what you’d like to learn or how others can learn online! To RSVP, connect with the group, and learn more about London Net Tuesday, visit our Meetup group!

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Get to Know the Lodestar Center: Lili Wang

ASU Lodestar Center

I am also interested in the intersection of the government and the nonprofit sectors, which includes cross-sector collaboration, nonprofit provision of public services, etc. I have studied minority volunteering and giving behaviors, social media giving, planned giving, and community foundations both in the US, and in other countries.

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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.

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