Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! Evaluation is one of my favorite parts of the instructional design or training process. Use Learning Theory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

The program is specially design to leverage the power of technology in supporting women’s rights and social justice leaders and organizations to advance their work and impact. Breaking a large group into small groups for an exercise is also instructional design challenge. ” at Twitter Headquarters this week.

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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. Training Design'

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 26, 2012

posted by Leslie Beecher , Instructional Designer. Over the past four years, I have worked as an instructional designer in the for-profit education world and am excited to have transitioned into the nonprofit sector. ASU Lodestar Center.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

To start off, an eLearning consultant is an individual who provides advice and guidance to help organizations create successful eLearning programs. This is true whether you’re building your learning business from the ground up or expanding your programming to reach new heights. Measuring the efficacy of your eLearning programming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute , and a Jedi Master. ” What is Human Centered Design?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Iftikhar Soomro and Seema Zameer — all of whom understand capacity building programs. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Said one participant, ”We are in the fear stage because our senior leaders fear social media and we’re not sure we get results with social media.” Please leave a comment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

Facilitator for Learning Network: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world and here in the US. In addition, I presented a webinar on training design and facilitated a session on nonprofit technology training design at NTC. Year in Review.

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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. See the above video, created by team in Tunisia, which summarizes the program.) Design for Flexibility.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat. I also facilitated several design labs with nonprofits as part of the research for the Happy Healthy Nonprofit at the Alliance for Nonprofit Management and the National Arts Marketing Project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods. 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

JULY 24, 2012

As with all the capacity building projects that I’ve designed, it is based on a framework and theory of change. We used to help us design the program, determine process outcomes, and help us evaluate participant’s progress. Training Design. Assessment Framework and Theory of Change. Solicit and share stories.

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Network Build Learning Strategy 97

Gyrus

JULY 28, 2016

Instead, effective content is and must be designed specifically for use on our handheld devices and tablets. More and more instructional designers and content providers are specializing in this medium and as the technology around them gets better Mobile Learning itself will continue to improve. Established Context.

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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. With facilitator’s guidance, grantees will design and implement a small action learning project.

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India NGO Network Exercise 102

Connection Cafe

MAY 16, 2019

Today Jocelyn Wright, Instructional Designer and Jenny Toledo, Instructor at Blackbaud University, join your host Roz Lemieux, Director of Blackbaud Labs, to talk about some of the highlights from the M+R Benchmarks Report and what they mean for your organization. Insights into online monthly membership programs.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

But how do you get started building a program, especially if most of your funding comes from foundation grants? Before this, he was an Instructional Designer and Editor at Element K, a provider of learning solutions for businesses and nonprofits. George holds an MA and BA from Binghamton University.

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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

OCTOBER 4, 2016

It seems that Training personnel are always focused on new and innovative teachings, and designers are obsessed with developing an open platform that can accommodate all these visionary changes that we as learning professionals would wish to implement. This is the exciting future state of content in general.

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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. There is one problem with this design: Many of us find experimenting difficult. Growing My Instructional Chops. Stay tuned for that!

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Social Media Reflection Media Social 91

Forj

MAY 25, 2021

Manually generating reports, exporting them from your LMS, and submitting them to the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education’s Program and Activity Reporting System (PARS) is a complicated, precise administrative burden for your team to tackle. Responsive design. Offline use with automatic sync.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

Open-ended assessments are designed to have a learner share everything that they know about a specific topic. Before courses, consider providing an assessment designed to understand the learner’s base-level knowledge of the topic. Open-Ended Questions. Aim to assess learners before and during the course as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

One thing led to another and I designed a social media lab for arts organizations. The inspiration was part The Lab Theater a place where you try out contemporary or experimental works before you bring them to the main stage and part peer learning program. Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1.

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Social Media Reflection Learning Social 94

Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 3, 2021

Cloud for Good is seeking a director of Last Mile Training (LMT) to develop and deliver Salesforce training programs for several different roles. . Fluency in current Salesforce training programs (e.g., Instructional design, curriculum development, and teaching experience is a plus . Trailhead, Partner University) .

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sgEngage

APRIL 25, 2022

Design and develop course prototypes. The partner creates a prototype of the course to illustrate key design elements and the overall direction of the course. . Or, you could assign review duties by expertise—such as having your graphic designer review imagery and branding, SMEs review relevant educational content, and so on. .

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Project Team Learning Course 82

DNL OmniMedia

JULY 14, 2021

An LMS is the hub of your learning program. It hosts your courses and discussion forums, empowers learners to track their progress, and tracks all of the data about your programming. Just because you haven’t run into major challenges with your nonprofit training program yet, that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for improvement.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2016

I’ve just returned from week-long leadership development program in Israel called “ Reality Storytellers ” hosted by the Schusterman Foundation. So, this trip was a gift in terms of getting new ideas for instructional design. When you are a trainer, you are a designer and facilitator of learning experiences.

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Leadership Develop Exercise 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2013

This peer learning exchange is designed to help state-based groups to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children. The project supports a cohort of children’s health care insurance advocates with monthly peer calls, a face-to-face annual workshop, and expert one-on-one coaching from SpitFire coaches.

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Gyrus

JULY 19, 2016

Today, we will evaluate microlearning and the potential it carries in reference to bolstering a learning program. Microlearning is not designed to be the end all be all form of learning that people may wish for it to be. At Gyrus, we believe it is our duty to identify, discuss, and communicate our thoughts on upcoming industry trends.

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eLearning Instructional Design Alternative Mobile Learning 60

Gyrus

MAY 5, 2016

LCMS- Learning Content Management System: A Software providing multi-user environment where authors, trainers, instructional designers, etc. LMS – Learning Management System: is a software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting and delivery of e-learning courses or training programs.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

Course authoring software platforms empower learning professionals, often alongside content development experts, to author, design, and assemble eLearning courses for learners. Essentially, these platforms are used by those with the need for and resources to invest in comprehensive training programs to train a large audience of learners.

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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. Content is king, good content can be the make or break foundation of a great Learning and Development program. Microlearning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2013

I’m writing this post from Tunisia. What are you focusing on for 2013?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. How do you define failure for our organization or program?

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