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Design for active learning: Tips for nonprofit facilitators

Charity Village

To start designing for active learning, consider your session as an opportunity for you to share what you know with participants but also a chance for them to share what they know with each other. In active learning environments we aim to bring everyone’s experience and knowledge into the room, not just the facilitator’s.

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6 Ways to Keep Corporate Partners Engaged During COVID-19

Classy

Businesses are able to help nonprofits fill financial gaps when donations have waned, and nonprofits have helped businesses find ways to actively support their communities during the public health crisis. These could include helping run your social media pages, assisting with data entry, or facilitating research projects.

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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The ability to “shift” delivery formats – from say an interactive lecture to small group activities helps students pay more attention. I am not always lucky to be teaching in a classroom that is designed as a flexible space to be molded into a learning environment by the instructor guided by the instructional design.

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How to Design an Effective Nonprofit Staff Retreat: A Lesson from Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Pre-work would prime me for the learning objectives. There would be plenty of activities that asked me to think hard, interact with colleagues, move around the room, and spend some time in personal reflection. Following up on this intention, the planners presented activities that made this possible.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For the networked nonprofit workshops I facilitate, I’ve developed a maturity of practice assessment called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly ” which gives me a detailed understanding of where the organization is in its practice. Training is only valuable if participants apply what they learn.

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Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We’ll share some of these case studies below, but for more, check out these projects and learn more about the people behind them at the Games for Change Festival ( [link] ), NYC’s largest gaming event that convenes the social change community and game makers, next month (April 22-24 & 26). In Education. Around Gender.

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Guideline For Finding Your Organization’s Ideal LMS

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In this search for information, it is vital to focus on the objectives you want to achieve by the e-learning courses or training. How about, will it work within your pre-existent learning environment? This factor will determine nature of e-learning activities as well as the level of multimedia integration.