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Learning Analytics comes from a report about the impact of emerging technologies for practitioners in a field. That sounds like the title of a report that NTEN might produce that surveys the technology landscape and nonprofit usage and provides an overview of what technologies nonprofits should be looking at in the next 1-5 years.
Google offers the free MOOC called “ Google Analytics Academy.” NTEN is also publishing blog posts, articles, and reports and a good place to start is their September NTEN Journal issue on data.
A related approach is giving learners an article to read, such as a scientific article that describes people who did not have natural ability but who developed exceptional skills. Of course, formal educational experiences are not the only way to learn. We must fully engage in the way that we hope those we lead will engage and learn.
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