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Indian online teaching platform Teachmint raises $16.5 million

TechCrunch

The startup has built an all-in-one product that allows teachers to kickstart a live class, do doubt-clearing sessions, take attendance, conduct webinars, collect fees, find new students, offer support via phone calls and take tests, among other tasks.

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Nonprofit Technology Training: Book List

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I read a lot of educational technology, training, and teaching blogs, follow those people on Twitter, curate on Scoop.It, etc to keep up. I usually draw from these sources to create “instructional resources” for any workshop or class I teach. Here’s an example from a recent webinar on training. By Dave Meier.

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What We Can Learn from Finnish NGOS About Resilience

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I had an exciting and busy week of teaching public workshops, facilitating informal staff workshops, and meetings at the Embassy mostly on the topic of Networked Nonprofit, digital strategy, and leading on social media. Before I left for Finland, I read Timothy Walker’s Teach Like Finland: 33 Simple Strategies for Joyful Classrooms.

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Waabi’s new simulator could scale autonomous vehicle tech faster

TechCrunch

Testing autonomous vehicles on public roads is an expensive and time-consuming endeavor, and one that Raquel Urtasun, former chief scientist at Uber ATG, doesn’t think is the most expedient route to market. Using AI to stress test the Waabi Driver. Our simulator is immersive as well as reactive,” Urtasun told TechCrunch.

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New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofits To Improve Resilience in 2021

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Rituals leverage our brains’ ability to run on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted by other things, such as potentially contracting a deadly disease. My Three Themes: Resilience: This theme relates to all the curriculum, writing, and teaching I do around The Happy Healthy Nonprofit.

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Bringing the Lean Startup approach to healthcare

The Next Web

I also teach students, residents and fellows and hold joint appointments in the School of Medicine and the School of Public Health as an Assistant Professor. For example, the A/B testing advocated by Lean Startup is very similar to randomized control trials in medical studies. How has lean startup methodology influenced your role?

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How To Tap Into The Hidden Wisdom Of People Around You

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The five practical steps of the research-based, pressure-tested The Ask Approach™ methodology are: Choose Curiosity : How you can awaken your curiosity to make new discoveries and unexpected connections. Paraphrase and test. Question: Why is it so important to master only one skill you teach at a time? Wetzler : Absolutely.

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