Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. Here’s some examples.

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Learning Theory Learning Brain Exercise 138

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Use Learning Theory. I have written a lot about how it is important to understand how the brain works, how people learn by using learning theories to guide the design of your workshops. Here are some examples of the questions you can ask adult learners to write down and then discuss in small groups.

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Evaluation Training Train Tips 128

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Designing and delivering a training to a nonprofit audience is not about extreme content delivery or putting together a PowerPoint and answering questions. If you want to get results, you need to think about instructional design and learning theory. And, there is no shortage of learning theories and research.

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Instructional Design Instruction Instructional Training 111

NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Beth is an expert in facilitating online and offline peer learning, curriculum development based on traditional adult learning theory and other instructional approaches. She has trained thousands of nonprofits around the world. Gen Z by the Numbers. Gen Z have (social) entrepreneurial spirit in their DNA.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2008

The title of this post is a play on a book I read The Book of Learning and Forgetting by Frank Smith in 1998 when I was working with arts educators on integrating technology into their lesson plans. I would recommend technology resources and they would share books about learning. But what about a community of practice approach?

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Twitter Bookmarking Learning Theory RSS 50

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The purpose of my thesis was two-fold: To research and analyze community and civic engagement practices, methods, theories and examples in other museum programs. Enjoy her thesis, share your own example, have a meaty conversation. I chose to focus my thesis on Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

She spent the majority of the time talking about what went wrong, and she introduced an organizational learning theory called "double-loop learning" that resonated with me. Basically, the idea is that most organizations learn in a single loop that connects programs to results.

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