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Six Tips for Evaluating Your Nonprofit Training Session

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Alternately, you may feel so good about it and say my job is done. Use Learning Theory. To guide evaluation, there are several learning theories, including The Four Levels of Evaluation, also referred to as the Kirkpatrick Evaluation Model , was created by Donald Kirkpatrick, Ph.D. Or, have them fold 8 x 11.5

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

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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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Twittering and Forgetting

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Smith's book explains the history of learning theories and practice. He establishes two ways of thinking about educational practice--the official view of learning and the classical view. The official view of learning is the belief that it only occurs when a person is taught. I use TweetScan for tracking people???s

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

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We continuously and actively respond to requests as well as invite people to be a part of our programs. Bonding social capital refers to networks that bring people together with common interests to strengthen relationships in preexisting groups.

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