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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

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So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. ” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation.

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Six Tips for Evaluating Your Nonprofit Training Session

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Using the ADDIE for designing your workshop, you arrive at the “E” or evaluation. There are two different methods to evaluate your training. Evaluation is one of my favorite parts of the instructional design or training process. to define the four levels of training evaluation.

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Trainer’s Notebook: The Importance of Hands-On Learning

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Your room set up can support your instructional activities that engage participants or get in the way. Circles without tables, just chairs helps promote group discussion. For each of the topics we cover in the class, students are assigned reading and I do a brief presentation of examples, frameworks and open it up for discussion.

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What Does an eLearning Consultant Do? The Complete Guide

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What should you consider when evaluating eLearning consultants? If you’ve outgrown your current learning management system, a consultant can help you research solutions, evaluate them against your needs, and make a plan for implementing the new tech into your strategy. What does a learning consultant do? Organizational Readiness.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Integrating Thinking and Feedback Activities

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While I did a pretty thorough participant assessment survey before finalizing the content, the instructional design and creating materials, I always like to get a group understanding of the learning goals and get people ready to learn. While evaluation surveys are great, they are only one form of feedback.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Just A Few Participatory Facilitation Techniques

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Evaluate your content, facilitation, and logistical skills against participant evaluations. If time is available, also do a plus/delta exercise with participants as a close out to the session. Measure, evaluate, reflect, and improve. This was followed by group discussion and Q/A. We were given ten minutes.

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Basic Facilitation Techniques for Nonprofits

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It is used in brainstorming because it speeds up the discussion. 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? Small Group Design. Stacking: This is often called directing traffic.