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Six Tips for Evaluating Your Nonprofit Training Session

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Can participants apply the skills?” Alternately, you may feel so good about it and say my job is done. Use Learning Theory. Has the workshop been effective in advancing the participant’s learning? Using the ADDIE for designing your workshop, you arrive at the “E” or evaluation.

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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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