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Six Tips for Evaluating Your Nonprofit Training Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Alternately, you may feel so good about it and say my job is done. But disciplining yourself to reflect afterwards always gives the reward of improvement. Use Learning Theory. Sometimes at first you feel like – oh crap – this didn’t work and don’t even want to look at it again.

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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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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

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Implementing participatory activities and constructivist learning theories allow the learner to actively experiment cognitively and physically, individually and socially, and to collectively build meaning and knowledge. All of our events require some level of participation.

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