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Digital Analytics Basics: Free Online Academy from Google

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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 To Focus When You Work in An Open Office Space

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It includes our relationship with our physical environment and in the workplace that refers to the nonprofit’s physical office space. The Gensler study suggests that employees need four different work areas to be productive: focus, collaborate, learn, and socialize.

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From Community Arts To Community of Online Learners: Janet Salmons, Ph.D

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I met Janet Salmons many years ago while I working on various arts and technology projects in New York State for the New York Foundation for the Arts. Ever since, our paths have crossed several times in nonprofit technology circles online, most recently via the Digital Divide Network listserv and the online forums at TechSoup.

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