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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. And, if you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology in March, join me, John Kenyon, Andrea Barry, and Cindy Leonard for a session on designing effective technology training.

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3 Strategies for Effective Nonprofit E-Learning

The Nerdy NonProfit

You design courses that specifically target what the learner needs. Design a course that targets that change. For the work-from-home example, this could be a simulation that walks through how to design the perfect home workspace. Your nonprofit’s staff and volunteers need to relate to any courses you design.

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To bot or not to bot: Using generative AI in grantwriting

Candid

For example, you will generate quite a different set of responses if you ask for information on “education” rather than “STEM education.” In fact, generative AI has been known to be trained on biased information. Perhaps the question we should be asking instead is: How can we use these tools to create efficiencies and enhance our work?

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Reflections on a Decade of Designing and Facilitating Interactive Webinars

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I thought I’d take this opportunity to reflect again on a decade of experience of designing and delivering interactive webinars. In order to do that, you have to think like an instructional designer ! Expert: This is content and information that is delivered by listening and questioning a subject matter expert.

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Nonprofit Technology Training: Book List

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The session will cover what to do before, during, and after leading an effective technology training and provide lots of practical tips that will help you design fun, interactive, and highly effective technology training workshops. The scientific information is presented in a format that non-scientists can understand and apply.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Reflections on Designing and Delivering Training To Get Results

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Design for Participants To Apply. It’s been great to discuss instructional design with other trainers that Deborah has brought together. Design for Different Levels of Capacity and Skills: Adapt in Real Time. So, you have to design for that. This takes a bit more effort than putting together a slide deck.

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8 Reasons Why Bad Trainings Happen to Good Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Training Design' Reign in your facts, figures and stories.

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