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.

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Learning Theory Learning Brain Exercise 138

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! Use Learning Theory. What part of the workshop should be changed to improve learning?

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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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

The model balances content, learning design, and participants. The ideas, tips, and tricks are grounded in adult learning theory, but the book is very practical. Visual Teams: Graphic Tools for Commitment, Innovation, and High Performance by David Sibbet. Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Harford.

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Skills Network Technique Evaluation 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Specificallly, she challenges the idea put forth by Nancy White " The act of production is an act of meaning making." Using tools and a process, the words, ideas, experience, sounds, etc., Loretta, doe it depend on which learning theory you buy into? can be offered up to an interested and engaged public.

Knowledge 50

Knowledge Collaboration Social Media Tools 50

Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

Finally, museums as "facilitators" of visitors' own experiences and interests. One of the resources she shared is a book called Brain Rules , which presents studies about the power of "cognitive force environment"--the idea that we need to be able to actually change an environment to learn from it.

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Slides Museum Los Angeles San Jose 22