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? .”

Learning Theory 138

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. Bear in mind that the model isn’t practical in all situations. to define the four levels of training evaluation.

Evaluation 128

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.

Skills 105

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.

Instructional Design 111

Instructional Design Instruction Instructional Training 111

Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

A few things I learned from the presentations and discussion: Dan shared a useful 4-step mental model for the progression of how institutions move towards participatory engagement. I asked them to think about how they could ask questions or share ideas in ways that would be as useful as possible to everyone in the room.

Slides 22

Slides Museum Los Angeles San Jose 22