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2023 Top Nonprofit Conferences

Whole Whale

While in-person events are beginning to open up again, many have pivoted to a hybrid learning environment. The Collaborative (Classy). About : Collaborative, brought to you by Classy.org, is a two-day experience dedicated to nonprofit professionals. 2023 is a unique time for conference-goers. When: June 7-8, 2023.

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Aligning Learning Needs with Business Process

Gyrus

Meaning, keep your ear to the ground and look out for any outlying theories that may contradict this ideal mix, and be aware that with all the new forms of learning that are quickly enhancing the marketplace, there is a very real chance that this model may need to be tweaked, to also represent unaccounted for learning objects.

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New Models for Children's Museums: Wired Classrooms?

Museum 2.0

Institutions like the Boston Children's Museum (which she helped lead in the 1970s) drew heavily from and worked in partnership with the "open classroom" movement to develop informal educational models that are interactive, open-ended, and individualized. Why haven't children's museums pushed past the 1970s model?

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5 Takeaways from the bbcon 2020 Virtual Higher Ed Super Session

Connection Cafe

To aid COVID-19 vaccine research , institutions bypassed guidelines or proprietary processes for sharing research to best support the collaborative efforts to produce a vaccine. . As a result, majority of the focus has been on technology that enables course delivery, assessment, online learning, and academic support.

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The Importance of Nonprofit Workplace Culture: How PENCIL Thrives by Writing Their Own Path

NonProfit Hub

They’re no stranger to a fun and engaging learning environment. The official mission statement says “PENCIL is the leader in creating innovative and impactful models of ongoing collaboration between business and public schools.”. And PENCIL, Inc. is full of those life-changing, one-of-a-kind people. See the difference?

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Interesting Uses of Technology: Virtual Libraries in Second Life

Tech Soup

"We're moving from a 'top down' model where high quality resources were once published through peer review and traditional authority-based publishing modes to a different model," she explained. This new hierarchy model is the basis for my exploration of virtual media as a delivery mode."

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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. Whatever the structure for your learning activities, they should use four different kinds of activities that help the brain learn rapidly and identify your discussion questions.