Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Movie streaming services, family members and pets, and noisy neighbors all add up to one thing— limited time and attention to dedicate to e-learning during COVID-19. Custom-designed, relatable courses. She lives alone, but that doesn’t mean her work-from-home attention span is stellar. Prioritize content that’s valuable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

Breaking a large group into small groups for an exercise is also instructional design challenge. This helps with increasing attention spans and retention as well as make the session more fun. If you know me, sticky notes and marker were also involved. There are many ways to do it. So, this required a bit of pre-planning.

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JANUARY 2, 2015

I worked with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to design, development and facilitate training on how staff can leverage professional networks for learning and in service of strategy, including a special session training your attention online. I plan to do that with facilitation techniques for design and innovation labs.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Pay close attention to interactions with other people. Full attention listening: Giving full focus and attention to the other person. 9: Give regular verbal or non-verbal cues that you are paying attention. The specific practice skills include these three: Ask empowering questions. 3: Don’t judge the other person.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

The best coaches achieve success with great game-plans, proper attention and research into proven methodologies, and an appreciation to their competitors and what their efforts for improvement may be. Your great learning program could be even greater with just a little coaching.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

However, their effectiveness is often debated in the educational software community, as not all eLearnings are made with the same attention to detail. Understanding the foundation of what makes the instructional design so effective, can go a long way in transitioning some of your organizational learnings over to a digital medium.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

I’m preparing for a webinar and with any training I begin the instructional design with surveying participants to understand their level, learning goals, and attitudes about the subject matter. “I kissed a squirrel & I liked it” #ReplaceGirlWithSquirrelInASong. Billboard (@billboard) April 4, 2014.

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Gyrus

JULY 28, 2016

With the only resolution to this issue being to schedule yearly training meetings/events, or requiring intensive eLearnings where the floating personnel is not only taken away from their work, but they are often participating with varied levels of attention and an abundance of distractions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Having trained nonprofits on every continent of the world (except Antarctica), I had a great laboratory to develop my instructional design and delivery skills. One of the biggest challenges is keeping nonprofits engaged. Keeping nonprofit audiences engaged during training can improve your outcomes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I worked with the Foundation Center to develop an online course about how nonprofits can leverage professional networks for learning and in service of strategy. I continue to hone and improve my instructional practice and share tips with these many posts on instructional design for nonprofit training.

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Iowa Facilitation Teach San Antonio 50

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JUNE 19, 2006

Reminds of something I read today about learning design and games. It came from Richard Van Eck's presentation "An Instructional Designer Looks at Digital Game-Based Learning." On pages 20-22 of the mega huge powerpoint bullet points [link] Was Gagne's Nine Events and how games embody them.

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APRIL 8, 2013

In response, there was a campaign to hire her back on Facebook, it garnered mainstream media attention, and was a public relations nightmare for AppleBee’s. Instructional Design Notes. I’ve been paying attention to “ Feng Shui ” of training or the physical layout of the room. Ultimately, Ms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Good instructional design and delivery engages people’s brains, eyes, ears, and bodies. People pay attention more, they learn something, they retain it better, and there is a better chance of them applying what they learned.

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Training Train Brain Exercise 50

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MARCH 30, 2012

The conference in Morocco was a “tri-lingual event” and was translated into French, English, and Arabic, although the content and instructional design were identical to the event in Jordan. This blog post is a summary of reflections about the instructional design and how NGOs in these countries are becoming Networked NGOs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

Advocates get more attention from policymakers. Training Design. Amplify peers’ efforts. Communications have more impact. Social media content mirrors other channels. Solicit and share stories. Key influencers take action, including media. Lawmakers repurpose key messages.

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JUNE 25, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. Program Design. Day 4: Action Learning Projects, Communicating After Workshop, and Managing Our Attention.

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India NGO Network Exercise 102

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JUNE 28, 2016

My inspiration for the instructional design was learning that there was a game show in the 1980s called “ The Body Language Game.” Before we took a deep dive with Janet on social awareness skills, we had a short session on understanding non-verbal communication such as body language.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

It’s been great to discuss instructional design with other trainers that Deborah has brought together. Recently, Jennifer Ahern Lammer who is the program director for the Alliance of Nonprofit Management , shared several good design points developed by Peter York from TCG and how she applies it.

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Training Train Reflection Design 98

Forj

JULY 8, 2021

Within modules, you may ask learners fill-in-the-blank questions to ensure they’ve been paying attention to the course material covered. Because these questions are so quick to answer, it doesn’t lead to a large disruption in instruction when they’re included within modules.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. Some may think that tweeting during a workshop may take away from learning or paying attention. Both organizations have demonstrated leadership in embracing social media. Put Your Learners on the Stage and Hand Them the Mic!

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Social Media Reflection Learning Social 94

Gyrus

JULY 19, 2016

Wait, it appeals to shortened attention spans and works great with our hustling staff who is constantly on the go? Microlearning is not designed to be the end all be all form of learning that people may wish for it to be. Why aren’t we doing this already? What’s the catch?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2016

Bersin by Deloitte’s infographic “ Meet the Modern Learner ” is an excellent summary of the challenges facing trainers who need to design and deliver professional development for nonprofit professionals. Instructional design is knowing how to organize your content and shape exercises based on brain and learning research.

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Gyrus

JULY 26, 2016

That being said, the platforms in which these games are being built are constantly evolving, giving designers better graphical capabilities, smoother operations, and in general more robust offerings. E-Learnings. E-learnings are here, and they have been here a while. Microlearning.

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eLearning Mobile eLearning Industry Training 66

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

What could we put in the lobby just outside the gallery to: Capture the attention of visitors and alert them to the exhibition behind the wall? This coincides with the identification of 20- and 30-year-olds as an audience targeted for growth in attendance. Offer something fun and appealing to do that required entering the exhibition?

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NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. This post shares the content and I’ll share a post about the instructional design in a second post.

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Forj

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Now that we’ve created solutions for easily defined problems, it’s time to focus our attention toward complex problems. For example, instructional designers need to work with programmers, graphic artists, subject matter experts, and data scientists to develop effective eLearning curricula.

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eLearning Skills Instructional Design Instruction 31

Forj

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Now that we’ve created solutions for easily defined problems, it’s time to focus our attention toward complex problems. For example, instructional designers need to work with programmers, graphic artists, subject matter experts, and data scientists to develop effective eLearning curricula.

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eLearning Skills Instructional Design Instruction 28