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Six Tips for Evaluating Your Nonprofit Training Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This includes documenting your session, reviewing your decks and exercises, analyzing your instructional design, and figuring out how to improve it. If you think of your training as making a soup, your participant survey is like the food critic’s review of the soup. Use Learning Theory. Click to Amazon.

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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.