Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

How do we complete work, training, and more on one strained WiFi connection? Let’s explore a few big changes and how you can create custom-developed courses to incorporate them. If you’ve caught the news at any point in the last year, you know that the trending topics are different than anything we’ve encountered before.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2014

” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. This includes documenting your session, reviewing your decks and exercises, analyzing your instructional design, and figuring out how to improve it. Use Learning Theory.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2018

For the past five years, I’ve been an adjunct professor at Middlebury College in Monterey teaching a graduate course called “ Networked International Organizations ” for students pursuing an advanced degree in International Development. They also have to present their ideas to the whole class and do a brief write up.

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JANUARY 4, 2017

” I use it for planning my work flow for the day, week, month, and quarter and to reflect along the way. I don’t set goals, but use the themes to guide the type of work I will take on, what I want to write about on my blog as well as my professional reading and professional development. Year in Review. My Three Themes: .

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

A good facilitator knows how to shift or tweak the lesson plan in real time if it isn’t working as planned. Pivots can make the difference between a successful session and disaster. Pivots can make the difference between a successful session and disaster. What do you want to learn from working together?

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APRIL 1, 2014

Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute , and a Jedi Master. ” What is Human Centered Design?

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

Understanding the foundation of what makes the instructional design so effective, can go a long way in transitioning some of your organizational learnings over to a digital medium. In order to take advantage of the full flexibility of eLearnings, you will need to make them available in a variety of different offerings.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

The data is there, and the demand is there; it’s just a matter of doing the work. If implemented, that will make a big difference. It’s still in the realm of custom content development – not something you can assign to your staff instructional designers – but it’s cheaper to do. We are all for it.

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JANUARY 4, 2016

During January, I review my work routines, systems, and rituals to redesign or tweak them to improve productivity. Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness. I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat.

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

However, if your LMS doesn’t make it easy to author new modules and market these new courses, it will be a challenge to release new credits for your members. It could even lead to dangerous situations if members are completing courses teaching outdated practices that are no longer widely accepted.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Then we had a discussion to pull highlight and discover different practices. I used this exercise right after lunch to avoid the after lunch energy drop and use the time for instruction. I was in India this past summer to facilitate an intensive four-day training for Packard Foundation grantees working on family-planning issues.

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MAY 17, 2011

The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. This approach means the instructor takes a “guide on the side&# approach versus “expert on the stage.&# And, of course, it takes more preparation time than slapping together a powerpoint.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

Your overall learning business strategy and tech tools such as your learning management system (LMS) and eCommerce tools work together to deliver content to your learners. Your team, subject matter experts (SMEs), and eLearning consultants work together to author content for your courses. What is course authoring software?

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MARCH 30, 2012

The conference in Morocco was a “tri-lingual event” and was translated into French, English, and Arabic, although the content and instructional design were identical to the event in Jordan. This blog post is a summary of reflections about the instructional design and how NGOs in these countries are becoming Networked NGOs.

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APRIL 4, 2010

One thing led to another and I designed a social media lab for arts organizations. The inspiration was part The Lab Theater a place where you try out contemporary or experimental works before you bring them to the main stage and part peer learning program. Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The content on the wiki has now organized into an instructional format as a two-day face-to-face workshop. The next step is to see how people remix, improve, and share back the material (with attribution of course) - that is the true power of working wikily. My debrief of the two-day workshop.

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Gyrus

JULY 26, 2016

Throughout the course of history, some very brilliant minds have endeavored the obscure task of forecasting the future of technology. In the Learning and Development world training has migrated from solely instructional and self-taught. The Future of the LMS – Where Are We Going? But, where can they go from here? Microlearning.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. This post shares the content and I’ll share a post about the instructional design in a second post. 534 is the average total amount raised by an individual.

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