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Reflections on a Decade of Designing and Facilitating Interactive Webinars

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Because webinars were a new medium to trainers back then, I used Richard Mayer’s research on multi-media learning based on understanding how the brain works and the ability to pay attention to guide the instructional design. In order to do that, you have to think like an instructional designer !

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10 Types of eLearning Assessments for Your Courses

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These exercises can measure knowledge gained, skills learned, or even attitudes or mindsets changed. This tests knowledge acquisition. Further, they can understand their own knowledge and areas of improvement that they should seek to alleviate. What is the importance of eLearning assessments?

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Basic Facilitation Techniques for Nonprofits

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The facilitator indicates that they will summarize the discussion and names the themes in play and then invites moving the conversation onward with “any more comments? Writing people’s ideas on a flip chart or white board helps with the group memory and knowledge capture. A simple “who else has an idea?”

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Trainer’s Notebook: Group Polling Techniques and Tools and Incorporating Movement

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When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective. Here how collecting data and displaying aggregate might enhance learning: (Add in the comments if you think I missed anything). In other words, to what end? Support a fun icebreake r.

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Reflections on the Social Media Lab Workshop

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The curriculum and instructional design included " Principles of Effective Social Media for Nonprofits " and a version of the social media game created with David Wilcox. I learned about the four keys of fun in game design as well as the role emotion plays in engaging people. Growing My Instructional Chops.

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WeAreMedia Live Workshop: Reflections

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In addition, we had expert knowledge in the room from JD Lasica, Paul Lamb. This was workshop was based on the knowledge shared on the WeAreMedia wiki over the past year using Dave Cormier's Community as the Curriculum approach. The content on the wiki has now organized into an instructional format as a two-day face-to-face workshop.

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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

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We use our knowledge of practical use cases to put the media and marketing hype in perspective. It’s still in the realm of custom content development – not something you can assign to your staff instructional designers – but it’s cheaper to do. You’ll notice that right away below the fold. Innovation Trigger.

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