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Digital Analytics Basics: Free Online Academy from Google

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Taking self-directed and collaborative learning a step further is peeragogy.

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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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Build a Digital Ecology–Promote IT Collaboration Across Your Organization

.orgSource

I am not a fan of employees training each other unless you can shift responsibilities to ensure that people have the capacity to take on a teaching role. Offer incentives for learning and recognize and reward the power users. Offer incentives for learning and recognize and reward the power users.

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Get to Know the Lodestar Center: Lili Wang

ASU Lodestar Center

My professional role includes three aspects: teaching, research, and service. I look forward to working on more funded research projects related to the nonprofit sector and cross-sector collaboration. What has been your most rewarding experience or the proudest moment in your career so far?

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Share Files and Collaborate Online with Box

Tech Soup

Teach for America , The International Rescue Committee , and Kiva all use Box for content management and collaboration. Learn more about their stories and watch a video detailing their work on the Box website.??. Before Box, it had problems with employees accessing content because its internal servers crashed frequently.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Most of the projects with these programs were carried out collaboratively; so I had a chance to see how different kinds of organizations, from grassroots to national, operate. I figured out that I could offer teaching, training, consulting activities online. It focused on collaborative e-learning. I have two favorites.

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NpTech Tag Roundup: Election Day, NPTech Blog Chatter, and Tool Talk

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Knowledge-at-Work blog writes about when learning and knowledge collide -- and the importance of collaborative learning networks. There is a fairly large educator community on Second Life and the lessons learned are starting to appear in the blogosphere. Something to read before jumping into using the tools.

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