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Six Tips for Evaluating Your Nonprofit Training Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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More on Collaborative Knowledge Capture for Conferences Using Social Media Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" 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?