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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.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

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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. As someone who has been designing and delivering training for nonprofits over the past twenty years, the most exciting part is apply theory to your practice.

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Twittering and Forgetting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I would recommend technology resources and they would share books about learning. 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.

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

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The purpose of my thesis was two-fold: To research and analyze community and civic engagement practices, methods, theories and examples in other museum programs. It’s not solely about how museums can serve communities but rather what are the communities’ resources, knowledge and interests that can inform museum practice?

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