Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

What should you consider when evaluating eLearning consultants? If you’ve outgrown your current learning management system, a consultant can help you research solutions, evaluate them against your needs, and make a plan for implementing the new tech into your strategy. What does a learning consultant do? Organizational Readiness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

I answered yes to all, but more importantly I think these two methods helped me the most: Carve out time for reflection after each training and do an after-action review with yourself. Evaluate your content, facilitation, and logistical skills against participant evaluations. Next, try provocative statements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

While I did a pretty thorough participant assessment survey before finalizing the content, the instructional design and creating materials, I always like to get a group understanding of the learning goals and get people ready to learn. That is hard to do but a good professional skill in many other contexts than training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Over the last 25 years I’ve been doing training, I’ve learned different and applied different methods from either being a “student” in a training facilitated by someone using a method, being trained in the method, co-designing with others, and designing and facilitating my own sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

And then immediately create instructional materials and trainings for the community. Later, as I developed workshops and content for strategic technology planning , I became obsessed with learning about technology professional development for nonprofits and designing effective trainings. Audience Research. The Topics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

In addition, I presented a webinar on training design and facilitated a session on nonprofit technology training design at NTC. I wrote many posts on instructional design for nonprofit training , including this wrap up post from our NTEN NTC session on teaching and learning for nonprofits.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

Elearnings as a whole are very attractive, as they offer an inexpensive alternative to classroom training. When evaluating the effectiveness of eLearnings it is vital that we keep in mind exactly what we are trying to accomplish; then craft exceedingly mindful learning experiences to ensure the highest possible return on our investment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

And, in looking over the evaluations and reviews , I think the participants did too. Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Back Channel is a must read for anyone presenting at conferences or planning trainings in age of social media. I covered these three topics: Why: Social media integrated into instruction - Pass or Fail?

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Gyrus

JULY 28, 2016

This rings of significant importance for businesses that are completely structured around a mobilized workforce, as training offerings of the past have seemed like a distant and unachievable possibility. Instead, effective content is and must be designed specifically for use on our handheld devices and tablets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods. Facilitation, Curriculum Development and Train the Trainers. I walked away 40 pounds, but something else happened.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

(see above) It is designed to be used in face-to-face workshops and conferences. When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective. This summer I was lucky enough to do a network training with June Holley.

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Gyrus

JULY 14, 2016

However, my inability to participate aside, Pokémon Go is a very good application of Augmented Reality, and with the user base growing at such an alarming rate, it has caused many organizations to take pause and evaluate what seems to be endless opportunities in not only the game and its facets but in the delivery method itself.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

We used to help us design the program, determine process outcomes, and help us evaluate participant’s progress. Training Design. It also includes a face-to-face workshop where there is also the same balance. This year’s session was piggy-backed with the annual meeting, so the training came at the end of 2.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Being able to make decisions and evaluate are more appropriate for a learning experience delivered over time such as a semester long course or at least having some time and space in between sessions. evaluate the results of your social media experiment and use the information to improve your next social media strategy experiment.

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DNL OmniMedia

JULY 14, 2021

What do your nonprofit training efforts look like right now? Why not use it to train your team as well? 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. What are the benefits of a tech-fueled approach to nonprofit training? “If

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

IOT Physical Simulators: The idea here is to build physical training devices that connect to online learning technology. 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.

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

Whether it’s Continuing Medical Education (CME), Continuing Nursing Education, or training for other healthcare specialties, the education must align with specific accreditation regulations. Do they offer any additional professional services , such as instructional design, LMS administration, or even subject matter expert management?

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Gyrus

JULY 19, 2016

Today, we will evaluate microlearning and the potential it carries in reference to bolstering a learning program. Because they’re so brief, microlearnings are quick to make, implement, and can be a real game changer for your training courses if implemented correctly. The Concept of Microlearning.

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Gyrus

JULY 26, 2016

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. In the Learning and Development world training has migrated from solely instructional and self-taught. Microlearning.

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