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PowerMyLearning: Free Online Education Games and Videos for Nonprofits and Libraries

Tech Soup

Of course libraries are all about education in its various forms. CFY was founded by Elisabeth Stock in 1999 with the mission of helping low-income students do better in school by improving their learning environments at home. It also integrates well with after-school programs and library open-access. How It Works.

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What’s A Learning Experience Platform? The Essential Guide

Forj

Why are learning experience platforms rising in popularity? LMS vs. LXP: Should you invest in a learning experience platform? A learning experience platform (LXP) is an innovative tool that associations and other learning businesses can use to disseminate educational content to members. Let’s dive in.

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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

" Some statistics about how many young people are using various social media tools. The environment for learning is no longer in the classroom and its online, and outside of school. (The These are complex learning environments where young people are making decisions, learning and collaborating with peers, etc.

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How to Build Platforms that Our Movements Can Own

Non Profit Quarterly

And the nonprofit is left hanging, ten years later, with a tool that is full of bugs and issues, near unusable. For example, if a group raises $1,000 for a project that builds community power—like a mutual aid group, a skillshare, a giving circle, a timebank, or a tool library—who is going to hold onto the money that was raised?

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