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5 things to know about philanthropy to HBCUs

Candid

Grants to HBCUs have deep, broad, and long-lasting impacts on society HBCU staff and student participants in the qualitative research all highlighted that HBCUs’ history and legacy are rooted in creating safe spaces for Black scholars. In addition to providing a top-tier education, HBCUs accept and acknowledge students’ identities.

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How to Keep Donors Engaged Using Emerging Technologies

Cloud 4 Good

Pencils of Promise (PoP) was founded in October 2008 to help build safe and healthy learning environments for young children worldwide. To date, Pencils of Promise has built nearly 600 schools worldwide, and over 130K students are currently enrolled in those schools. Understanding and catering to these needs are paramount.

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Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Video games are big — bigger than Hollywood in terms of revenue, as a $66 billion global industry. 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. You can register here.

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5 Takeaways from the bbcon 2020 Virtual Higher Ed Super Session

Connection Cafe

W e successfully hosted our first fully virtual and truly global conference , bbcon 2020. When international students had to return to their home countries, m any institutions matched international alumni living abroad with these students back in their home country. A few great examples include: .

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For those of us who also focused on training, instruction, and professional learning for nonprofits, the New Media Consortium , has been charting the landscape of emerging technologies in teaching, learning, and creative inquiry on a global scale for the past ten years.

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How We Learn – Capitalize On Knowing

Gyrus

Our learning instruction we receive from youth into early adulthood is fairly regimented; teachers are taught how to convey information to students, and for the most part, they engage in the same methodology across their efforts. People learn at different paces and best with very different methodologies.

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Interesting Uses of Technology: Virtual Libraries in Second Life

Tech Soup

These virtual libraries are meant to support different aspects of student learning, making the aggregate and perhaps distributed content of a physical library more accessible. "Second Life libraries are examples of immersive learning environments ," explained Dr. Hill. Success in Second Life.