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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after. Then I block out 90 minute and 75 minute modules with 15 minute breaks in between.

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Four Nonprofit Web Accessibility Best Practices for 2022

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Understandable: Your website content should be structured in a way that’s easy to understand, in a logical and chronological order. Robust and Easily Interpreted: The back-end code of your website should be structured clearly and logically to ensure that browsers and assistive devices can easily navigate it. Clean up forms.

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Creating a Culture of Continuous Learning

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Also, do not be afraid to give your employees some supervised free-reign; let them try new ways to approach reoccurring problems with alternative methods and comprehension. There are structured eLearnings and mLearnings beyond the typical certification requirements which allow for the continuing and necessary education of your people.

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Does Extreme Content Delivery = Learning?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Images are better than words for instructional aids. It is a more structured body break and incorporates more in-depth debrief on content. I like to use as a closer, but perhaps it could be offered as an alternative for the introverted in the room. Having participants talk is better than listening. Shorter is better than longer.

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Mobile Learning – Is it Finally Viable?

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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. Who might that be? Mobile learning approaches the traveler, by establishing channels that have never before existed. Established Context.

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Your Guide to Hiring Staff for Your Nonprofit

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But, consider the alternative: continuing to do everything yourself, with sporadic support from Board members and volunteers. There are many other ways to structure the responsibilities of your first hire. Provide written instructions. Create policies and procedures, so everyone is treated fairly. It’s a lot to take on!

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Learning and Development: The Presidential Debate Edition

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Systems are capable of not only organizing Instructor-Led Training (ILT), but they now house E-Learnings, Gamification, Mobile Learnings, and alternative learning objects. This is leading to new manners of participation, such as learning, the introduction of microlearning modules, and self-guided instruction.

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