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APRIL 22, 2021

An eLearning consultant can help you answer this question and more. At Web Courseworks, we provide professional services to help associations like yours build their ideal learning business. To start off, an eLearning consultant is an individual who provides advice and guidance to help organizations create successful eLearning programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Our interactive session at the Fall 2013 Communications Network Conference in New Orleans was a blend of content delivery and peer learning – a conversation about the value, different approaches and models, and best practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding. Circles without tables, just chairs helps promote group discussion. This combination of advanced planning and evaluation helps one continuously improve their instructional design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

I tested out the five phases of falling in love with measurement. Given the topic was measurement, I couldn’t help but go a little meta and play with incorporating learning analytics into the instruction. This blog post shares some insights about those two somewhat disconnected ideas. Bonus: Spreadsheet Appreciation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2014

You can find the presentation here and accompanying blog post, How To Think Like A Nonprofit Instructional Designer. Over on the SalsaLabs blog, they are doing a series on designing nonprofit tech training and I discovered this excellent rewrite of my post. Your content needs to resonate with your audience’s needs.

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Evolutions in Content. When you work with an e-learning content development company to author a custom course, you can make it more relatable to your team’s experience. In this scenario, you’ll want to make creative and engaging design decisions to keep her attention. Here are a few tips to help: Experiment with your formatting.

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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. Apparently you can’t make crappy content go viral. . — Billboard (@billboard) April 4, 2014. The common tip? Craft good headlines.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

In 90 minutes, we did two exercises that helped participants identify their target audience and then build out a persona, a fictionalized character that described motivations, barriers and identifies the right content and channels to use. Breaking a large group into small groups for an exercise is also instructional design challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Each of us took on a different aspect of nonprofit technology design and incorporated some interactive exercises. One of my favorites was this terrific warm up from John Kenyon to help you when you are about to present. I’ve done this for many projects and it is a difficult design task when you are doing it as the sole trainer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. The first 90-minute webinar to introduced the content. For this exercise, it would have been helpful to have people in each group with some prior real life experience designing an ROI study. It was delivered in two sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of participating in a convening on “Data Informed Philanthropy” hosted by the Packard Foundation – not only was the content compelling (stay tuned for a post on that), but it was also a fantastic opportunity to observe one of the best facilitators I know, Allen Gunn from Aspiration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Design for Flexibility. 1. Facilitating Tri-Lingual Events: Not Lost in Translation. Showcase Panel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

I answered yes to all, but more importantly I think these two methods helped me the most: Carve out time for reflection after each training and do an after-action review with yourself. Evaluate your content, facilitation, and logistical skills against participant evaluations. Did you read books, take classes, or have a coach?

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OCTOBER 4, 2016

Microlearning in particular caters towards reinforcing ideas, motivating students due to the brevity of the content, as well as creating an environment where the user feels like they have accomplished something within that same very short time span. This is the exciting future state of content in general.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

This peer learning exchange is designed to help state-based groups to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children. We used to help us design the program, determine process outcomes, and help us evaluate participant’s progress. Social media content mirrors other channels.

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MAY 16, 2019

The guests in this episode of The sgENGAGE Podcast are going to help answer these questions. We have seen that video content is actually the most engaging across all platforms.”. “If What benchmarks should you be tracking your performance against? How can you improve if you’re not where you want to be? That’s where everyone is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I blogged about the content last week. I've been experimenting with integrating social media into instruction for the past five years, so the webinar was a great opportunity to reflect on practice. I covered these three topics: Why: Social media integrated into instruction - Pass or Fail? I think you can design around it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 20 minutes. The lab does research on the relationship between physical fitness and cognitive function. Which brain do you think is more open to learning, retaining, and applying the content during a training? Movement is better than sitting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

And then immediately create instructional materials and trainings for the community. Later, as I developed workshops and content for strategic technology planning , I became obsessed with learning about technology professional development for nonprofits and designing effective trainings. Audience Research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective. You have to ask, how is polling the audience and seeing the aggregate results helping people learn? Help participants unpack a lot of potential topics to address.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. We are working very closely with V.S. Chandrashekar, India Country Advisor and his talented team members, Ms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

For 2017, we be launching an online site that includes the content and facilitator guides so that any nonprofit or trainer can provide leadership development for emerging nonprofit leaders. Instructional Design and Facilitation: I love teaching and exploring different ways help nonprofit professionals learn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

” This helped shift the energy and energize. The energizer can be connected to the content or just a movement exercise or stretch. In India, I designed the first one to celebrate the local culture: It was called “Bollywood Moment.” Keeping nonprofit audiences engaged during training can improve your outcomes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

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. This means that you can’t be in the front of the room delivering content all the time!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

I was humbled to join the illustrious list of faculty members who have talents and wisdom in content areas that I only dance around of the edges of. Here are some thoughts about tweaking the instructional design: Game Length and Instructional Context. She created a wonderful closing ritual that helped the community form.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 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. Then we did several rounds of speed dating which allowed for a lot of peer to peer help on using tools.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

They are both incredibly talented, attempting to improve themselves, and they just need help realizing their full potential; in order to develop the necessary skills to climb up all the way to the next level. They possess similar mentalities, motivations, educational backgrounds, and drive for success. The comparisons do not just end there.

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

Keep in mind that your organization may be facing more than one of these challenges— but luckily, there are strong software solutions to help your association overcome them. It doesn’t empower you to create new content and keep up with the latest developments in your field. The content you share within the LMS is dull and unengaging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Next, of course, is diving into the design task of identifying goals and framing for the session and specific roles. Good instructional design to create an environment for peer dialogue begins with good on boarding and for people to connect with something they already know or believe. Concept Poster Session. ” Anne Lamott.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

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. Your content still needs to be valuable enough to justify the cost. The data is there, and the demand is there; it’s just a matter of doing the work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

” Chelsea took a photo with her Smartphone and posted it on the Reddit, a community aggregation site where content is ranked and rated. He described two types of online behaviors – content creators and curators. ” He went into details about how people consume or share content via mobile phones vs tablets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

We created The Emerging Leaders Playbook which served as the “text book” or content for the training. Like any other skill you want to improve, it helps to get a baseline assessment of your listening skills. It helps people process complex thoughts. What you say communicates only about half of what people hear.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The day was designed as a one-day interactive strategy session in the morning and intensive mini-workshops on tools and tactics in the afternoon lead by a cadre of local social media specialists and experts. Balancing Learning Through Content Delivery and Sharing Experience. It isn’t about content, although that is important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

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. If two minds are better than one, what about 100? The wiki and our hashtag helps bring in other people into our learning and enrich it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The content on the wiki has now organized into an instructional format as a two-day face-to-face workshop. We had a lot of content to cover in two days. We had a lot of content to cover in two days. Many of the participants lived blogged the sessions and the notes created are good content for the wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I also wanted to get a sense of what content to include, so I asked for burning questions I usually do that as an icebreaker in the room, so this will save some time. I have a chance to reflect now on the data I've collected and think about the instructional design. It's 90 minute workshop and there's a content to cover.

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