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Virtual Learning

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Sample Webinar PowerPoint e-learning
Sample Webinar Participant Workbook e-learning
Sample Webinar Participant Preparation e-learning
12 Tips for Wondrous Webinars e-learning, tips & tools
6 Core Principles Virtually! e-learning
5 Way to Create Tough and Engaging Online Team Tasks curriculum design, e-learning
3 Things Seasoned Facilitators Can Learn from E-Facilitation facilitation, e-learning

Technical Assistance and DE

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Hybrid Learning Example: Mathematica Policy Research’s CIRE Forum technical assistance

Learning-Centered Design

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An Approach that Invites Connections
The Role of Safety in Trauma-Informed Practice safety, restorative practice, trauma, choice, core principles
6 Core Principles for Learning
The Principles and Practices of Dialogue Education adult learning
How a Learning-Centered Approach Differs curriculum design
Finding the Sweet Spot curriculum design
8 Steps of Design templates
4-A Planning Template templates
The 4-A Learning Sequence templates
6 Core DE Principles Examples tips & tools
Design Layout - a template and tips tips & tools
Checklist for Your Design tips & tools

Impactful Meetings

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Ways to Ensure Off-site Participation During In-Person Meetings
Four Questions to Transform Your Meetings
Consensus Decision-Making* :  Dot-mocracy meetings, decision making, tips & tools, dialogue, voting
4 Simple Suggestions for Better Meetings engaging meetings
Thoughtful Decision-Making tips & tools
11 Tips for Telephone Meetings tips & tools
10 Tips for Being an Effective Board Member tips & tools
10 Tips for Being a Strong Board Chair tips & tools
10 Tips for Being a Healthy Board of Directors tips & tools
Alternatives to Open Discussions tips & tools
When is a Meeting the Way to Go? tips & tools
The Facts About Meeting Mayhem tips & tools
10 Tips for Co-Facilitation of Meetings tips & tools
Meeting and Planning For Resistance tips & tools

Learning Evaluation

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Sample Evaluation Guide for Facilitators templates
Three Levels of Evaluation templates
Accountability Planner tips & tools
Begin With the End in Mind: Three Levels of Evaluation tips

Dialogue Education in the University

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Engaging Graduate Students to Deepen Learning
The Medium is the Message higher education
Dialogue Education Bibliography

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higher education
Starting with the Syllabus higher education
A University in Ghana higher education
The First and Last Day of Class higher education
Start Modeling Dialogue Education in Your Syllabus higher education
Moving From Monologue to Dialogue higher education
Creating a Learning Environment higher education
Using a Learning Needs and Resources Assessment higher education
Some Frequently Asked Questions higher education

Exceptional Conferences

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Tips for Speaking on Our Panel tips & tools, facilitation
Tips for Workshop Facilitators tips & tools, facilitation
All’s Well That Ends Well: Plenary Sessions
Steps of Planning Cartoon

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conferences
Sample Plenary Session Design conferences
What Is the Purpose of The Conference? conferences

A Focus on Learners

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Disability Etiquette! disabilities, learners, inclusion, safety, respect, needs assessment
Shared Power: Differences in Dialogue with Children and Adults tips & tools
10 Tips for Honouring and Inviting Diversity in Group Learning tips & tools
Persons with Disabilities: Part II tips & tools
Persons with Disabilities: Part I tips & tools
The Art and Skill of Engaging People tips & tools
Ways to Support Change When Language or Memory in a Challenge tips & tools
Tips to Help Organize Workbooks & Written Documents for People Living with Dementia tips & tools
10 Tips for Groups Where Language May Be a Challenge tips & tools
Six Things You Thought Wrong About Introverts tips & tools
Introverts vs. Extroverts: Tips for Designing and Facilitating tips & tools
10 Types of Learners tips & tools

Facilitation Skills and Issues

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A Structure for Effective Check-Ins check-ins, facilitation, safety, respect
Tips for Successful Community Engagement for Social Transformation, in Illiterate Communities community engagement, facilitation, africa, illiterate, social change
The Art of Co-Facilitating facilitation, co-facilitation, teamwork
Tell Me how You are Doing with a Card facilitation
Facilitation for Real Ownership
Tip sheet - How to ensure hospitality in the design and faciliatation tips & tools, tips
Three Levels of Listening tips & tools
Tips for Room Set-Up and Use tips & tools
Tips for Effective Use of Flip Charts tips & tools
Tips for Effective Time Management tips & tools
Upping the Ante on Brainstorming tips & tools
6 Tips for Using PowerPoint to Engage People in Dialogue tips & tools
3 Tips for Engaging Presentations tips & tools
The Walk and Talk tips & tools
The Importance of Punctuality tips & tools
Creating the Space for Real Dialogue tips & tools
Ensuring Safety in Your Learning Events tips & tools
10 Tips for Effective Small Group Facilitation tips & tools
15 tips for Working Effectively with Interpreters tips & tools
10 Tips to Get People Talking tips & tools
10 Tips for Using Guidelines tips & tools
10 ways to get quick feedback tips & tools
10 Ways to Minimize Resistance tips & tools
10 Tips for Using Effective Visuals tips & tools
10 Tips for Effective Facilitation tips & tools
10 Tips for Co-Training tips & tools
5 Tips for Working with Small Groups tips & tools
5 Tips for Working with Large Groups tips & tools
Tips for Staying in the Present Moment tips & tools
Open Questions tips & tools
More Open Questions tips & tools
Active Listening: Practicing Safely With a Trusted Peer tips & tools
Active Listening Cards tips
Talking Too Much? tips & tools
Dialogue and Staying on Track tips & tools
Open Questions and their Relationship to Levels of Cognitive Learning using Benjamin Bloom’s Taxonom tips & tools
30 Ways to Affirm

Writing Learning Tasks

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Bringing the Sacred into Learning learning tasks, closings, learning centered, metaphor, heart learning
What Good Are Warm-Ups? tips & tools
10 Tips for Managing Data to Document Learning & Change tips & tools
Bringing the Sacred into Learning higher education
Learning Task: Tough Situations: How to Overcome Resistance tips & tools
Learning Task: Meeting and Planning for Resistance tips & tools
Learning Task Assessment Matrix tips & tools
A Sample Learning Task: Monologue vs. Dialogue tips
Warm-ups: Sequence, Congruence, Affect tips & tools
17 Warm-up Examples

DE In Our Day to Day Lives

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Enliven Your Museum Experience:  Strategies for Engaging and Interacting with Art dialogue, open questions, art, museum
Tips for Entering and Staying with Tough Dialogue tips & tools, dialogue education, dialogue
Tips for Supporting Young Introverts tips & tools
10 tips to effective email communication - with family and friends tips & tools
10 DE Tips for Camping tips & tools

DE at Work

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Five Tips for Strategic Communication newsletters, communication, tips & tools, email
10 Tips for Making Decisions in the Workplace tips & tools
DE at Work Book: Foreward by Margaret Wheatly excerpt
10 tips to effective email communication - with colleagues and clients tips & tools

Other Great Resources Beyond Definition

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Intentionality in Communications valerie uccellani, teamwork, communications
8 Tips for Balancing Dialogue with Content tips & tools
10 Steps for Preparing Your Workshop tips & tools
10 Critical Principles tips & tools
Resistance Overcome by Courage tips & tools
No Right Answer and a LOT to Learn tips & tools
Minimizing Resistance Checklist tips & tools
How Am I Ensuring Meaningful Decision-making in my Learning Events? tips & tools
Simplicity! tips & tools
From Criticism to a Practice of Inquiry tips & tools
Education as the Practice of Freedom tips & tools
Designing Respectfully for Learners with Varying Levels of Experience tips & tools
Gratitude for the Principles & Practices of Dialogue Education™ tips & tools
LNRA: What’s in a Question? tips & tools
Reinforcement: Same Melody, Different Key
Creative Learning Events or “Same Old, Same Old”? tips & tools

Sample Learning Designs

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A Dialogue with Resistance - a workshop by Bert Troughton tips

Other Congruent Practices

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Maximizing Generativity with AI and DE
Where Aboriginal Practices and DE Meet

Voices in Dialogue

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Learning-Centered, Learner-Centered, Teacher-Centered… What’s the Difference? archived issues
The Means is Dialogue, the End is Learning, the Purpose is Peace archived issues

Jane Vella Resources

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School of the 80s: Learning from Leisure, Experience, and Vulnerability learning, jane vella, vulnerability
Cognitive, Affective, Psychomotor:  The True, the Good and the Beautiful jane vella, cognitive, affective, psychomotor, isaccs, zull, brain

Conversations on the Back Porch: Podcasts with Dr. Jane Vella

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Learning Designs and Spontaneity podcast, dr. jane vella
The Seven Steps of Design podcast, dr. jane vella
Safety First! podcast, dr. jane vella
The Learning Needs and Resources Assessment podcast, dr. jane vella

Jane's Journal Archives: 2003 Entries

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Happy New Year! journal entry
A Fast for Peace journal entry
Dialogue Education: A Case Book journal entry
Tragedy and Education journal entry
A Quiet Time journal entry
Foreword to Dialogue Education: A Case Book journal entry
“Tell Me a Story—and Put Me In It!!” journal entry
Safety in the Learning Environment journal entry
Choose Life journal entry
72nd Birthday journal entry
Hello Miss Hepburne! journal entry
What’s an Old Lady For? journal entry
Dialogue Education™ at Work journal entry
The Sabbath Decade journal entry
The Burden of Contentment journal entry
What Will Stand the Test of Time? journal entry
Impact Studies tips, journal entry
What I Do Is Me? tips
Celebrate and Document! journal entry
Seasons of the Soul journal entry

Jane's Journal Archives: 2004 Entries

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A Good Week journal entry
The Uses of Beauty journal entry
A Book Launch journal entry
A Gift for Spring Time journal entry
Impact Studies journal entry
Russell-Einstein Manifesto journal entry
A Letter from Ken Williams journal entry
The Anatomy of Hope journal entry
E.J. Boone Adult Education Enhancement Award journal entry
Impact Studies journal entry
An Exhilarating Review journal entry
A Reflection journal entry
Connections and Consciousness interview

Jane’s Journal Archives

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School of the 80s: Learning from Leisure, Experience, and Vulnerability learning, jane vella, vulnerability

Arabic

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Signs of DE
GLP Course Samples
About DE
About GLP

Chinese

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Multiple Intelligences Sample Design
About DE
Signs of DE
About GLP

French

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Comment l’Education par le Dialogue se Distingue french
Tableau Comparatif de l’Education Traditionnelle,  l’Education par le Dialogue et l’Education Inform french
Le modèle des 4 A french

Haitian Creole

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10 types of learners - in Haitian Creole tips & tools
10 tips for using effective visuals - in Haitian Creole tips & tools
10 Tip for Co-Facilitating (Haitian Creole) tips & tools

Persian

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Signs of DE
About GLP
GLP Course Samples

Spanish

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Principles to Practice Framework

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