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. Internal: These theories take into account our minds and bodies.

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Learning Theory Learning Brain Exercise 138

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

The session not only included training tips, but modeled them during the session so that the audience interacted and practiced skills directly. The 2016 session took all of the trainers’ lessons learned from the previous session and improved upon the presentation and exercises.

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Training Train Design Tech 59

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Drawing from adult learning theories, ECB utilizes a variety of strategies such as: Vehicle of instruction: face-to-face meetings, teleconferences, classroom style learning, web-based mechanisms, manuals, etc. The evaluator takes on many roles: facilitator, technical expert, and sometimes a shoulder to cry.

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Evaluation Program Attitude Nonprofit 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

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. Another topic that I’ve been tracking for a few years is information overload, with an emphasis on information coping skills.

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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

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. It's not enough to just receive information. 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