ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 26, 2012

posted by Leslie Beecher , Instructional Designer. Over the past four years, I have worked as an instructional designer in the for-profit education world and am excited to have transitioned into the nonprofit sector. All NMI certificate courses will be offered online starting in March, 2013. ASU Lodestar Center.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

For example, they could assist with the search for a learning management system or consult on the pricing of your courses. Converting courses to new formats. After all, you wouldn’t want to create courses or invest in tools that your members are simply not interested in engaging with! Final Report.

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Let’s explore a few big changes and how you can create custom-developed courses to incorporate them. Now to tie things back to e-learning: we know that the purpose of an e-learning course is to teach staff members how to do their jobs better. Courses need to be actionable and give learners the tools to be more effective in their jobs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. If you do training, how do you continuously improve what you are doing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

I worked with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to design, development and facilitate training on how staff can leverage professional networks for learning and in service of strategy, including a special session training your attention online. I plan to do that with facilitation techniques for design and innovation labs.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 16, 2019

Today Jocelyn Wright, Instructional Designer and Jenny Toledo, Instructor at Blackbaud University, join your host Roz Lemieux, Director of Blackbaud Labs, to talk about some of the highlights from the M+R Benchmarks Report and what they mean for your organization. Blackbaud University Organizational Best Practices Course Listing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

I also continued my position as Adjunct Professor teaching a graduate course at Middlebury College/Monterrey Institute for International Education. Instructional Design and Facilitation: I love teaching and exploring different ways help nonprofit professionals learn.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

Your team, subject matter experts (SMEs), and eLearning consultants work together to author content for your courses. But, what about the software used to bring those courses to life? Your choice in course authoring software is just as crucial as the tools you choose to deliver the content to learners.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I worked with the Foundation Center to develop an online course about how nonprofits can leverage professional networks for learning and in service of strategy. I continue to hone and improve my instructional practice and share tips with these many posts on instructional design for nonprofit training.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

It is humbling when you actually get feedback from the people you are designing something for. While I doubt that I will ever have to do design interfaces for a new car radio, the process was a stark reminder to me as an instructional designer to always get empathy from students in the course design process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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

DECEMBER 29, 2017

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. It’s a great attractor for learning experiences at conferences and multi-day live courses. In other words, we are in a period when SCORM and xAPI will co-exist simultaneously.

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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. Adaptability. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

I’m preparing for a webinar and with any training I begin the instructional design with surveying participants to understand their level, learning goals, and attitudes about the subject matter. “I kissed a squirrel & I liked it” #ReplaceGirlWithSquirrelInASong. Billboard (@billboard) April 4, 2014.

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Gyrus

JULY 28, 2016

Instead, effective content is and must be designed specifically for use on our handheld devices and tablets. More and more instructional designers and content providers are specializing in this medium and as the technology around them gets better Mobile Learning itself will continue to improve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Of course, you have to modify depending on the physical space available, time of day, culture of the group, etc. Last November, I was the end of the day keynote at the Social Good Brasil Conference after a long day of presentations on the stage. Keeping nonprofit audiences engaged during training can improve your outcomes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Next, of course, is diving into the design task of identifying goals and framing for the session and specific roles. Good instructional design to create an environment for peer dialogue begins with good on boarding and for people to connect with something they already know or believe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Good instructional design and delivery engages people’s brains, eyes, ears, and bodies. People pay attention more, they learn something, they retain it better, and there is a better chance of them applying what they learned. .” Of course the training room has to accommodate this.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

tablets are a three course meal, vs mobile is snacking. Instructional Design Notes. I facilitated a session in the afternoon which was designed for peer interaction given the topic. .” He went into details about how people consume or share content via mobile phones vs tablets. An effective digital team.

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sgEngage

APRIL 25, 2022

And, we can’t forget one of the biggest benefits—online training courses replace in-person, instructor-led courses and all of a sudden, your learning and development team has significantly more time on its hands for other efforts. . However, creating e-learning courses is a major undertaking. Develop and review course.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. My teaching style has been influenced by constructivism in short - less "sage on the stage" and "more guide on the side" and that learners should be actively involved in their learning process. This would have increased the scope of the project, of course.

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DNL OmniMedia

JULY 14, 2021

A yearly refresher course for staff members. Let’s walk through the benefits of using technology in your training strategy and how you can create e-learning courses that make an impact. Improved Knowledge Retention: Learners can take e-learning courses at their own pace, revisiting key topics to ensure they understand them.

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Gyrus

JULY 19, 2016

This could be applicable to topics that do not need the granularity of a full course, or can be used as a supplement to learning exercises throughout a student’s learning within an organization. Those familiar with the previous cumbersome courses will beam a ray of positivity to the training.

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Gyrus

MAY 5, 2016

LCMS- Learning Content Management System: A Software providing multi-user environment where authors, trainers, instructional designers, etc. LMS – Learning Management System: is a software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting and delivery of e-learning courses or training programs.

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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. ” As such the LMS evolved, giving employees the opportunity to work together on modules, evaluate courses they are taking, and directly interact with each other in learning options. Microlearning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

One thing I haven't been doing over the years is documenting the instructional design or lesson plan. We discussed creative commons, of course, and some policy options and release forms and so forth—but then went on to point out that release forms is not a social media problem—it’s more human relations and logistical in nature.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. 4: Offer many ways to people to engage with your campaign.

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