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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. The course is about how to leverage networks and social media for learning and impact. Classroom style with desks puts a barrier between the students and the instruction, especially when people are using laptops or tablets to take notes.

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Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

GlassLab ( [link] ) explores the potential for existing, commercially successful digital games to serve both as potent learning environments and real-time assessments of student learning. SimCityEDU has been piloted by over 100 teachers and 3,000 students. In Philanthropy.

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5 Takeaways from the bbcon 2020 Virtual Higher Ed Super Session

Connection Cafe

In a time of unexpected and continued change , we discussed new trends from 2020 and how Blackbaud customers and the industry are responding to today’s environment and developing new strategies for success. . COVID-19 pressure has tested existing EdTech needs and processes, especially in the areas of support for online students.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Two or three years to adoption: Learning Analytics (K-12/Higher Ed), Open Content (K-12), Games and Gamification (Higher Ed). The report methodology models the open content technology identified in the report. It also has benefits to students themselves who can use the data to customize their participation in the class.

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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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New Models for Children's Museums: Wired Classrooms?

Museum 2.0

A former superintendent of such a district, he explained the basic premise to me: each student, from kindergarten on, has a personal laptop. The schools have open wireless internet, so each student has continual access to the Web. Apple calls this program “one to one” learning, meaning not one instructor but one computer per child.

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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. After all, their organization was built to provide programs that help students in the classroom by providing resources and making education interesting. And PENCIL, Inc. is full of those life-changing, one-of-a-kind people. See the difference?

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