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Six Tips for Evaluating Your Nonprofit Training Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Use Learning Theory. I have written a lot about how it is important to understand how the brain works, how people learn by using learning theories to guide the design of your workshops. A colleague who is a trainer once said to me, “If you are good at what you do, you are always learning.”

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Designing and delivering a training to a nonprofit audience is not about extreme content delivery or putting together a PowerPoint and answering questions. If you want to get results, you need to think about instructional design and learning theory. And, there is no shortage of learning theories and research.

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More on Collaborative Knowledge Capture for Conferences Using Social Media Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The learning is not in that moment in which these actions are taking. That's simply because learning is a process that happens when the information shifts from short-term to long-term memory and results in changed beliefs and behaviors. Loretta, doe it depend on which learning theory you buy into?