Forj

JANUARY 23, 2018

Introducing people to new instructional design concepts is very important, but providing people with the tools and skills necessary to bring those ideas to life is just as important. I’ve enjoyed prepping for this session because it has forced me to reflect on my own process and dig into the why s of what I’m doing.

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Forj

AUGUST 1, 2017

I recently wrote about my experiences presenting at FocusOn Learning 2017 (you can read about them here ). Learners are engaged with the media that surrounds them, and it wouldn’t hurt instructional designers to take a few tips on how to create engaging content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

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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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

As an association, your main product is the value that you provide to members— this likely includes networking experiences, events, and casual educational experiences such as webinars and presentations. A consultant can help you craft an engaging multi-track experience that rivals that of in-person events. Course authoring.

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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. Don’t leave them hanging. Don’t just talk at them, interact!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

As a trainer and subject matter expert, I fight a big battle when designing a workshop. Develop a first draft of a crowd funding strategy for their organization. Here I used a classic, simple technique of asking people to share burning questions in small groups and generated a list of the themes/questions with the full group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

The participants were at mixed levels of skills and experience and organizations ranged from community/grassroots organizations to larger institutions. Breaking a large group into small groups for an exercise is also instructional design challenge. This was much more fun than writing it down on a worksheet!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

I gave a lightening talk at the Gates Foundation convening of the Markets for Good community on “ Between the Keyboard and the Chair “ Facilitation and Train the Trainers: I was honored to co-facilitate a leadership track at the first ever Leading Change Summit hosted by NTEN which was an amazing learning experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

And while anything you do the first time will not be perfect and in many cases stressful, in the end it was a good experience. As someone who has been in the nonprofit field 35 years, I can sum up my experience as: ”Remember, it’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

A follow up question revealed that a big challenge is making goals measurable. This gives me some more insight about how to make teaching this concept more accessible. Please leave a comment.

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Custom-designed, relatable courses. While you can purchase a ready-made course on LinkedIn Learning or Udemy, we’re seeing a pivot away from pre-made courses and a move toward custom-created experiences instead. In this scenario, you’ll want to make creative and engaging design decisions to keep her attention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I've been experimenting with integrating social media into instruction for the past five years, so the webinar was a great opportunity to reflect on practice. I covered these three topics: Why: Social media integrated into instruction - Pass or Fail? What: The art of social instructional design. Know of any?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Our session room set up was more appropriate for a plenary sessions — a large room, theatre style chairs, and the instructors on risers above the audience. This room set up is best for “sage on the stage” type of lecturing, but our design was for an interactive experience. The Art of Good Openings and Closings.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

When evaluating the effectiveness of eLearnings it is vital that we keep in mind exactly what we are trying to accomplish; then craft exceedingly mindful learning experiences to ensure the highest possible return on our investment. Also, please try not to make them boring.

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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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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. The add-on to my previous workshops were three "experiment in a box" modules which included Listening , Twitter , and Facebook Fan Pages.

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Social Media Reflection Media Social 91

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Here are some thoughts about tweaking the instructional design: Game Length and Instructional Context. Lately, I've had the experience of running the game as a 3-hour workshop as part of a second day of peer learning workshops on Network Effectiveness. Otherwise, attitudes don't change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

Later, as I developed workshops and content for strategic technology planning , I became obsessed with learning about technology professional development for nonprofits and designing effective trainings. Learning Objectives: Understand why it is important to incorporate social media tools in your instructional practice for trainings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

His response: Looking: Observing human experience. Six month agos, I was introduced to Luma Institute’s work as a participant in a Foundation convening to get ideas for their digital strategy development. It is humbling when you actually get feedback from the people you are designing something for.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 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. For example, on Day 2 we covered strategy and social media integration. Design To Build A Community of Practice.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Instructional designers have been trying for years to come up with the perfect teachings for organizational entities, with learnings ranging from electronic, social, micro, mobile, instructor-led, and blended. Your great learning program could be even greater with just a little coaching.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Stay tuned for more information in 2017, but I will be very busy writing facilitator process guides based on my decades of experience as a trainer and sharing that on this blog. 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

OCTOBER 28, 2013

If you are designing and delivering training on any topic, here’s some things to think about to ensure that your participants have a transformative learning experience. Design for Participants To Apply. So, you have to design for that. This takes a bit more effort than putting together a slide deck.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

As always, we try to use this blog post to speak from our experience as a learning technology partner to organizations that provide continuing education and professional development. It’s still in the realm of custom content development – not something you can assign to your staff instructional designers – but it’s cheaper to do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective. Help the facilitator understand who is the room at the beginning (demographics, experience, attitudes, knowledge about the topic) – a quick and dirty participant assessment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I worked with the Foundation Center to develop an online course about how nonprofits can leverage professional networks for learning and in service of strategy. I continue to hone and improve my instructional practice and share tips with these many posts on instructional design for nonprofit training.

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Gyrus

JULY 14, 2016

As such, it is safe to say a well-executed mobile learning in augmented reality could captivate learners to levels we have yet to see, and it is up to instructional design developers to get us there. In conclusion, embrace this new era of technology and what we can experience in our daily lives.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Many of us do this and take content notes, but it is also great to take notes about instructional design and facilitation techniques. In the Digital Forum, the session organizations recruited people with both subject matter expertise and facilitation experience. The topics. Social Media (Facilitator: Beth Kanter).

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

Therefore, you rarely invest in add-on CE experiences beyond what’s required of you to maintain licensure, and as a result, contribute little non-dues revenue to your association. If that revenue is on the decline, the experiences you’ll be able to provide for members will be directly impacted. Accessible Content Delivery.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 4, 2016

The role of the disruptor in the learning space is currently to perfect these new processes and turn them into something that is entirely the vision of the learning client and helps positively shape experiences within the paradigm of learning. What is next for the learning industry?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2015

It has been a long time since I’ve attended a conference where great content and instructional design were so well integrated. I was a little intimidated going to the conference as I was afraid that all the content would be too much on the technical side of data for my tastes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

My inspiration for the instructional design was learning that there was a game show in the 1980s called “ The Body Language Game.” Create ownership of solutions : “Based on your experience, what do you suggest we do here?”. We did a little role play showing good listening techniques and bad listening techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

Balancing Learning Through Content Delivery and Sharing Experience. I’ve experimented both ways and have come to the conclusion that you cannot please everyone. What Powers Learning: Sharing Experiences and Stories With Peers. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Some Reflections. Hashtag Stats.

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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. We are working very closely with V.S. Chandrashekar, India Country Advisor and his talented team members, Ms.

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India NGO Network Exercise 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Participants design and launch a social media experiment that helps them improve their practice and share learning with one another. The last face-to-face session, in fact, is participants sharing the results of their experiments. Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1.

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Social Media Reflection Learning Social 94

Forj

JULY 8, 2021

At Web Courseworks, we specialize in both learning management systems (LMSs) equipped with assessment authoring tools and providing consulting services to help professional, medical, and trade associations create top-tier eLearning experiences for their members. Assess learners before, during, and after courses.

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