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. Do we need to the whole hour to accomplish the same amount of work? .”

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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. What is one change that you can make in your practice or one idea that you will put into practice as a result of this workshop?

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Evaluation Training Train Tips 128

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

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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Skills Network Technique Evaluation 105

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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

" I love seeing this through Loretta's lens of learning. 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?

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Knowledge Collaboration Social Media Tools 50

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

JUNE 2, 2010

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. 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