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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

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” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. You also need to consider the learning environment, any constraints, the delivery options, and the timeline for the project. It is also important to target the right level of authority.

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Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

GlassLab ( [link] ) explores the potential for existing, commercially successful digital games to serve both as potent learning environments and real-time assessments of student learning. Learn more about amazing projects like these & more at the 11th Annual Games For Change Festival ( [link] ). Around Gender.

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Can Networks Have Social Impact?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week, as part of my work at the Packard Foundation as visiting scholar I had the opportunity to participate in a face-to-face convening of the "Network of Network Funders," a community of practice facilitated by the Monitor Institute. A peer learning environment requires creating a safe space for conversation.

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Guideline For Finding Your Organization’s Ideal LMS

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Choosing a Learning Management System is no easy task. If you are the one doing the evaluation of those needs, we recommend creating a team and discussing individual needs on a per department basis to ensure the best possible fit. How about, will it work within your pre-existent learning environment? Any guesses?

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Your Ideal LMS. Have Your Cake And Eat It Too.

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Choosing a Learning Management System is no easy task. If you are the one doing the evaluation of those needs, we recommend creating a team and discussing individual needs on a per department basis to ensure the best possible fit. How about, will it work within your pre-existent learning environment? Any guesses?

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Games for Change 2007: Funders Perspective Panel

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The key takeaway for me is the whole point about the need for new metrics to measure learning from games. If you use web site metrics to evaluate the success of your blog, they don't work for a lot of reasons. New learning environment puts games at the center. It is a new form of teaching, not just skill-based learning.

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Why we need Learning Management Systems

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As to not shroud this document with bias, I have taken the liberty of pulling the dictionary.com definition of a Learning Management System, which appears below: noun. An LMS allows you to calculate return on investment, evaluate how the system is working and adjust learning measures to match organizational needs. Get Organized.