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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Reflections on a Decade of Designing and Facilitating Interactive Webinars

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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10 Types of eLearning Assessments for Your Courses

Forj

We’re going to cover types of eLearning assessments through the following questions: What is an eLearning assessment? Multiple-choice assessments are those that pose a question with three to five accompanying responses. Learners are asked to choose the one correct answer that aligns with the question asked.

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What Does an eLearning Consultant Do? The Complete Guide

Forj

An eLearning consultant can help you answer this question and more. Through that work, we’ve seen the common questions that associations face when it comes to hiring an eLearning consultant— and now, we’re here to answer them: What is an eLearning consultant? That’s great! But, where do you begin? What does a learning consultant do?

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NTEN Leading Change Summit #14lcs: Reflection

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The team’s first planning session should be one of learning about each’s other trade craft versus diving into the design of the session. That’s hard if deadlines are looming, but essential to have a session to explore questions such as: What is your facilitation style and philosophy? Do you have a preferred method?

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10+ Best eLearning Course Authoring Software Platforms

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The type of authoring environment that will benefit your team’s process. This could mean a fully open-source environment, a desktop environment where only one person can edit the course at a time, or a cloud-based environment for collaborative authoring. 10+ ready-to-use content modules and question types.

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The Concept of Microlearning

Gyrus

Users have to watch it, then they have to answer some questions, then they have to click a couple things. Are you yourself as an instructional designer capable of ripping out the fluff and unnecessary components in order to optimize the microlearning? Is it something that lacks the complexity to warrant an entire eLearning?