Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. Here’s some examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Use Learning Theory. I have written a lot about how it is important to understand how the brain works, how people learn by using learning theories to guide the design of your workshops. I also ask for feedback on what exercises or content in the workshop helped learning and what should be changed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

Obtaining a sense of skill level prior to training helps the trainer make spontaneous decisions about content modification to suit the audience. In the first portion of the training, Jeanne and Cindy modeled four great practices for designing training content, including: Spend a little time researching adult learning theory, or.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

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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Instructional Design Instruction Instructional Training 111

Tech Soup

DECEMBER 8, 2014

The participants learn the foundations of choir singing, such as posture and breathing, vocal technique, and tone. They also learn theory, ear training, foreign language skills, and the study of music within a social context. This post was written by Ginny Mies, senior content curator at TechSoup. Images: Kantorei.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

A lot of work I do around social media is training — good training requires good design – not just content. This book is filled with great tips on designing engaging learning experiences that help your participants connect, inspire, and engage. The model balances content, learning design, and participants.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Beth is an expert in facilitating online and offline peer learning, curriculum development based on traditional adult learning theory and other instructional approaches. They are not content to just sit and click. Communicate more frequently in shorter bursts of “snackable content”. Gen Z by the Numbers.

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