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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This month I’ve been teaching graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. 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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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This is important for both online and offline instructional delivery. Students get a minute to think about the question on their own and then answer it using a mobile device that sends their answers to Mazur’s laptop. It’s more fun to teach this way and more fun to learn this. That’s the theory at least.

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ArtsLabSF: Reflections About Social Learning With Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My teaching style has been influenced by constructivism in short - less "sage on the stage" and "more guide on the side" and that learners should be actively involved in their learning process. I don't believe in the expert as one person, but more as a network. The Power of Social Learning: Online and Offline .

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NpTechTag Summary: Insect Antennae, A Blast from the Past, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He notes they were all taken with a Sony Picturebook mini-laptop with built-in camera. Phil Agre's How To Help Someone Use A Computer, circa 1996, is still relevant to anyone who is teaching someone how to master a new piece of software or Internet service. Hence, they're pretty lousy photos. Yikes, there are no rules.

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[VIDEO] How To Lead And Manage In Our New Nonprofit Work Reality

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You should already have the slides, but in case I missed you, we’ll send all that good stuff later on today. I mean, she’s a CFRE and she even teaches a CFRE class. So I’m going to stop sharing and I’ll let you pull up your slides here. We’re going to get that recording to you later on today.