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Developing staff technology skills in your nonprofit

NTEN

Match the learning environment as closely as possible to the environment where people must apply the skill. In addition to the training you provide in-house, encourage folks to take advantage of software vendor-provided training and learning platforms such as LinkedIn Learning or Pluralsight.

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Learning Analytics: Big Data Applied to Training, Teaching, and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Learning Analytics comes from a report about the impact of emerging technologies for practitioners in a field. That sounds like the title of a report that NTEN might produce that surveys the technology landscape and nonprofit usage and provides an overview of what technologies nonprofits should be looking at in the next 1-5 years.

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How We Learn – Capitalize On Knowing

Gyrus

So, what are good practices we can instill in our corporate learning environments that will ensure the highest level of safety, the greatest output, and best compliance to corporate guidelines? There are five major types of learning styles. Convey teachings in a manner that doesn’t sound like a dictionary definition.

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These are complex learning environments where young people are making decisions, learning and collaborating with peers, etc. Learning is happening outside of school and it needs to be understood better. "It is important to recongize that these are complex learning environments and information systems.

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New Models for Children's Museums: Wired Classrooms?

Museum 2.0

There’s a thriving debate about the role computers should play in children’s museums, with many professionals sounding the alarm about the negative impact of exchanging screen time for tactile environments. But the more I learned, the more I wondered where the real threat is, and why children's museums have been so resistant to change.