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

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

JUNE 29, 2016

Note from Beth: At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I was lucky to co-design and facilitate a session on technology training with colleagues John Kenyon, Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. Cindy and Jeanne wrote this great reflection of what we learned and how we facilitated this very interactive session.

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Training Train Design Tech 59

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

In your organization, this may look like negative attitudes toward evaluation, poor research designs and collecting data but not using the data. The evaluator takes on many roles: facilitator, technical expert, and sometimes a shoulder to cry. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity. Implement ECB strategies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Paul Schoemaker, founder and executive chairman of Decision Strategies international and research director of Wharton’s Mack Center for technological innovation, shares critical insights on the benefits of making well-chosen mistakes. There are countless books that tell you how to avoid mistakes. Now You See It by Cathy Davidson.

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Skills Network Technique Evaluation 105

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. Optimize your search results (they do their Internet research). She has trained thousands of nonprofits around the world. Gen Z by the Numbers.

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Social Nigeria Student Cancer 28

Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

Finally, museums as "facilitators" of visitors' own experiences and interests. Kris talked about brain research related to the potential cognitive and social impacts of participation. Basically, the idea is that most organizations learn in a single loop that connects programs to results.

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Slides Museum Los Angeles San Jose 22