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How nonprofits can benefit from knowledge management

Socialbrite

This is the type of knowledge that is codified and easy to teach. Revenue generation. As all nonprofits know, fundraising and revenue generation are key to helping the organization function and achieve its overall mission. This helps foster growth through creating a learning environment in the most efficient way.

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What Makes Social Learning so Interesting?

Gyrus

This process has been significantly augmented by social media, instead of limiting the practice to a regional endeavor where only local personnel can apply their skills, members of the organization in satellite offices can now contribute to the learning environment as a whole. New more consistent source of materials.

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Educating Medical Personnel: New Book Reviews CPD Topics

Forj

According to Turco, fellow editor Dr. Dave Davis has a talent for conceptualizing how to teach people. Throughout the collection, we were pleased to see the emphasis on using the internet to create blended learning environments. Mary Turco envisions instructors assigning chapters in a curriculum for training CPD professionals.

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Games for Change 2007: Funders Perspective Panel

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mentioned recent studies about taking laptops out of the classroom and there is a problem with using old metrics and it is important to look for new metrics and rethink learning environments in general. New learning environment puts games at the center. It is a new form of teaching, not just skill-based learning.

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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. " Dr. "It is important to recongize that these are complex learning environments and information systems.

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Building My Leadership Tribe in the American Express Leadership Academy

ASU Lodestar Center

Research from Harvard Business Review shows that learning happens best when learners collaborate and help one another. When I started the program with American Express Leadership Academy, I was not sure what to expect, but our first day single-handedly set the tone for the incredible 10 months ahead.

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Where I'm Coming From

Museum 2.0

"Unschooling" is an an educational theory that argues that people of all ages (including children) learn best when their work is self-directed--and that children are better at determining what and how they should learn than any accredited school or instructor. As John Holt wrote, "Learning is not the product of teaching.

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