Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 13, 2015

I just finished reading the National Education Technology Plan , and I can recommend it to anyone interested in the future of technology in American education. I found the explanations good, and the first part of the plan is well worth reading to understand some of the trends in educational applications of technology. If producers adopt current industry standards for producing educational materials, materials will be accessible out of the box.

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NetWits

APRIL 19, 2012

Download The 2011 Index of Higher Education Fundraising Performance Report to learn more about the 6% revenue growth and other key performance indicators of annual funds at more than 100 public and private institutions. 2011 Index of Higher Education Fundraising Performance.

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Education Retention Online Report 68

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2012

Three reasons kids need digital literacy and citizenship education — and three ways to provide it – Guest Post by Emily Esch. Just as media and technology have affected the nature of childhood and education, they’ve also affected the nature of parenting.

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Literacy Education Teach Digital 62

SocialFish

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Rich Finstein interviews Kathi Edwards , a consultant on our CommPartners team, about her take on social learning and online education – and how important these are for getting the engagement everyone is looking for. What trends are you seeing in live online education?

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SocialFish

MARCH 29, 2012

By the Education Database Online. This is an oldie but a goodie – from June 2011. I would love to see how these numbers have grown in the last almost-year. Click on the infographic to enlarge. Via: OnlineEducation.net. Social Learning

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SocialFish

AUGUST 31, 2012

————– Since the announcement by Harvard and MIT about the launch of their joint online education venture, edX , I’ve seen several articles and opinion pieces about MOOC – massive open online courses. They’ll take charge of their own education.

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SocialFish

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

————– I am very pleased to announce the publication of the white paper I co-authored with Elizabeth Weaver Engel, MA, CAE, “ The Association Role in the New Education Paradigm.” No Feeds Found.

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Roles Education System Chapter 17

SocialFish

APRIL 8, 2014

Technology and the future of education, learning, knowledge and universities (futurist speaker Gerd Leonhard) from Futurist Gerd Leonhard. ReimaginED: The Future of K12 Education from David Havens. From TED talk playlists to government speeches, everyone agrees: education is changing.

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Learning Slides Education United States 17

Mobile Commons

JULY 1, 2014

College enrollment, grade improvements, and staying connected with student services are just a few of the advantages of higher education texting. Higher Ed higher education summer melt Ten years ago, text messaging’s role in the classroom was a head scratcher.

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SocialFish

JULY 30, 2012

Do you work in the Education department? That’s where your expertise in learning and education is invaluable. Given all of that, what can the education team actually DO with social? You spend most of your time delivering formal education programs, as you should.

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ROI Education Instructional Design Instruction 28

Mobile Commons

JUNE 18, 2014

The University of Maryland’s Food Supplement Nutrition Education program sends text messages to parents about keeping their children healthy. Text messaging is a powerful tool in improving knowledge about broader health issues within a community.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 23, 2017

Recently Blackbaud UK’s Customer Engagement Director Dan Keyworth spoke at the Global Leaders Summit about Social Fundraising for Educational Institutions. He highlighted three different peer-to-peer fundraising opportunities specifically for higher education institutions.

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Ideas Blackbaud Fundraising University 73

NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Flickr photo by leighblackall By the end of 2011, NTEN will have produced over 100 educational webinars and 3 in-person local events, with many more in 2012. So, I'm thrilled to announce a job opening for NTEN’s Educational Program Manager. This position will be critical to adding a higher level of quality and evaluation to NTEN’s various educational offerings.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

James Shelton, US Department of Education: Education is probably the area where we have failed to innovate the most. I want to frame first the opportunity: we often talk about the competitiveness frame in education, that the US used to be number one, and now we are “falling behind.&# It has to happen outside this country because so many countries realized that education is the way to economic prosperity. Young people should enjoy the educational process.

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Education Game Classroom Evaluation 16

Tech Soup Blog

JULY 9, 2015

Various organizations and organizations offer again an exceptional array of events. All times are Eastern Daylight Saving Time (EDT). If you are not located in Eastern United States, use this site to convert those times into your own time zone.

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SocialFish

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Socializing educational content for member retention. ROI = reduction of costs for creating new content by surfacing existing content; extending the life of existing content; increasing retention rates attributable to educational value of the association membership.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 9, 2014

Investing in education has an incredible multiplier effect as it leads to increased prosperity not just for individuals, but also for their communities and societies. Gallucci and Roy jointly announced a partnership of philanthropic organizations investing more than $15 million in grants to 23 projects as well as an additional $13 million available in the coming year for innovative projects that will increase the participation, quality, and relevance of secondary education.

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SocialFish

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Interesting stuff from OpenColleges. Are you incorporating iPads or other similar tools into how you work with your members? An Infographic by Open Colleges. Potluck

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Tech Soup Blog

JULY 28, 2014

Thanks to the Pi's low cost, simplicity, and extensibility, educators and do-it-yourselfers have been buying them up at times faster than the manufacturer can make them. The Raspberry Pi was designed to help educators and students understand technology better. Raspberry Pi Model B.

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Mobile Commons

MARCH 27, 2015

For years researchers have been searching for small yet effective improvements to current educational models. Loosely defined as “behavioral nudges,” the idea is that educational systems don’t need major overhauls that exhaust budgets in order to make a change.

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Literacy Teen New York Student 17

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 2, 2011

One of the results of my creating a Generosity Plan was that I remembered how much I care about public education, literacy education, and arts education. When I graduated from college, almost all of my friends worked in public education, including me , but now, they've all left.

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NTEN

MARCH 1, 2012

Educational Program Manager. All of us in the nonprofit technology family are educators. Whether you are teaching users about database functionality, educating vendors or consultants about your organizational needs, educating programmers about user needs or simply explaining what the latest shiny tech object does, you are an educator. That is one of the many reasons I am excited about being NTEN’s Educational Program Manager. John Kenyon.

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Teach NTEN Database Consultant 7

SocialFish

MAY 14, 2013

“Education is not a mechanical system, it’s a human system.” “Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish — and how current education culture works against them.

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System Children Culture Mind 17

Wild Apricot Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

If your association targets recent graduates, young professionals, and those looking to gain more employable credentials (or would like to), you may be familiar with the current educational landscape. White-Paper Education Shelly-Alcorn Elizabeth-Weaver-Engel

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SocialFish

JANUARY 21, 2013

—————— The number of education sites keeps growing at a fast rate. Scitable is available courtesy of NatureEducation which is an initiative for collaborative science education. This is a guest post by Sandra Miller, a tech writer from Brooklyn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

It is being beta tested as part of a new model of high quality education in schools called: Sujaya : India’s 1st K-12 Hybrid CBSE Schools www.sujayaschools.com. The school’s curriculum is based on Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences theory.

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AFP Blog

JUNE 13, 2011

4 Globally Oriented Tips on Using Social Media - WorldWise - The Chronicle of Higher Education : "4 Globally Oriented Tips on Using Social Media June 9, 2011, 11:28 am By David Wheeler Over the past year, I’ve given talks or moderated sessions on social media in a strange set of cities: Adelaide, Sydney, and Doha.

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AFP Blog

APRIL 1, 2013

6 Tips for Successful Mobile Video Assignments in the Classroom - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education : However, in the three years I’ve been teaching mobile video in a course titled “Information 3.0,” even those students who initially say they are very familiar with video later admit that they learned a lot from repeated practice and application of video production skills.

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”. This quote demonstrates the state of technology and education currently. However, many argue the future of tech education is in the cloud.

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SocialFish

AUGUST 4, 2012

“Daphne Koller is enticing top universities to put their most intriguing courses online for free — not just as a service, but as a way to research how people learn.

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Donor Search

AUGUST 30, 2016

But, you can never learn too much about the… Education Major Giving UncategorizedThis month’s Fundraising Strategies & Nonprofit Tech Carnival is all about one thing: major gifts.

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Giving Retention Gift Process 39

Tech Soup Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Here's your monthly roundup of free in-person #Tech4Good events. But first I'm going to show off on behalf of our NetSquared organizers. I have the very best job at TechSoup — I get to support our network of nonprofit technology event organizers.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

It is important to remember that for the average higher education institution, you have three core major donor prospect groups that you are working with: Your alumni. Nonprofit Fundraising Higher Ed higher education fundraising major donors

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University Fundraising Nonprofit Donor 75

AFP Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Press Release Austin Nonprofit Bridges Digital and Education Divide in Cambodia - PR.com : That’s something that Austin’s Windows of Wonder Institute, or WOWi, wants to end. With its first international project in Siem Reap, Cambodia, WOWi aims to bring American audiences together with students of the Tchey school, to provide technical training to these students and help raise money for the education of Cambodian children.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 17, 2017

The webinar format embraces many of the things that make the internet such a great forum for education: Webinars are a low-cost, high-impact way to reach hundreds of individuals and provide education. You’ll have to check into these pages every month or so if you want to stay up-to-date on the best free educational material available. Frequent, high-quality educational material from a fundraising services provider.

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Education Profit Fundraising Technology 26

Wild Apricot Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Start 2017 with a boost to your professional skill set with some free education. training Education webinars nonprofit freeEach month we compile a list of the best free nonprofit webinars for you to attend. This month's webinars feature online fundraising best practices, software training, and how to find new donors this year.

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Education Train Training Skills 30

NetWits

JULY 11, 2012

I recently gave a talk to a super engaged group of people who work in the education space as part of our Schools out for Summer Series - You can find out about upcoming sessions here. Especially those in the education sector.

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Facebook Nonprofit Student Poll 90

NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

James Shelton, US Department of Education: Education is probably the area where we have failed to innovate the most. I want to frame first the opportunity: we often talk about the competitiveness frame in education, that the US used to be number one, and now we are "falling behind." It has to happen outside this country because so many countries realized that education is the way to economic prosperity. Young people should enjoy the educational process.

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Management Classroom Evaluation Teach 7

NonProfit Hub

JULY 25, 2014

As an institution built primarily for the Millennial demographic, higher education organizations need to go where those people are—social media. But social media is a valuable tool for your higher education organization.

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Media Fundraising Social Marketing 8

NonProfit Hub

JULY 25, 2014

As an institution built primarily for the Millennial demographic, higher education organizations need to go where those people are—social media. But social media is a valuable tool for your higher education organization.

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