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Six Tips for Evaluating Your Nonprofit Training Session

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But disciplining yourself to reflect afterwards always gives the reward of improvement. Use Learning Theory. To guide evaluation, there are several learning theories, including The Four Levels of Evaluation, also referred to as the Kirkpatrick Evaluation Model , was created by Donald Kirkpatrick, Ph.D.

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How to Be a Wizard at Tech Training Design and Delivery

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The 2016 session took all of the trainers’ lessons learned from the previous session and improved upon the presentation and exercises. The basic premise remained the same: to give training tips, model them, and to provide “meta” data that gave a glimpse into the minds of the session designers.

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Six Books About Skills You Need To Succeed in A Networked World

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This book is filled with great tips on designing engaging learning experiences that help your participants connect, inspire, and engage. 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.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

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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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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

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Implementing participatory activities and constructivist learning theories allow the learner to actively experiment cognitively and physically, individually and socially, and to collectively build meaning and knowledge. All of our events require some level of participation.

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AAM 2010 Recap: Slides, Surprises, and a Banjo

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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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