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Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Games provide tremendous opportunities for learning about real-world issues.

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Games for Change 2007: Funders Perspective Panel

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The key takeaway for me is the whole point about the need for new metrics to measure learning from games. If you use web site metrics to evaluate the success of your blog, they don't work for a lot of reasons. New learning environment puts games at the center. It is a new form of teaching, not just skill-based learning.

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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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The Future of the LMS

Gyrus

As we embark hundreds of years down the road from some of these grand musings and green field possibilities, it is important to look back and evaluate what we as humans have actually accomplished. These are all a huge step forward, but, we have only begun to delve into the possibilities of social learning. Gamification. Mobile Content.

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BIPOC Leadership Challenges: 26 Tips To Increase Accessibility Across The Nonprofit Sector

Bloomerang

Inner-city schools also often have high rates of teacher turnover, which can be disruptive for students and can make it difficult to maintain a high-quality learning environment. Our perspectives can be subconsciously influenced greatly by our social economic start in life.

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How to Persuade your Boss to Invest in an LMS

Gyrus

A Learning Management System Means… More Time. Learning programs are resource intensive. In order to properly organize a blended learning environment without a learning management system, a great deal of time needs to be dedicated. Let’s face it. Better Compliance Practice.

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Best Practices to Improve Your Training ROI

Gyrus

It’s a way to evaluate whether the training is cost-effective and beneficial in the long run. Measuring Net Benefits Net benefits can be calculated by evaluating the improvements in performance and productivity post-training. Continuous evaluation and adjustment will help in fine-tuning your training strategies.

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