Candid

JUNE 5, 2024

In this article, I’ll explore how nonprofits can utilize Instructional Design principles to develop training that engages, empowers, and educates both colleagues and external stakeholders. What is Instructional Design?

Effective

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. This includes documenting your session, reviewing your decks and exercises, analyzing your instructional design, and figuring out how to improve it.

Evaluation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2013

All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related.

Teach

sgEngage

MAY 24, 2021

Listen in to today’s episode to hear Melissa Rancour, principal instructional designer for Blackbaud University, talk about what social good organizations can do to get others invested and talking about their cause, the effect this has on donor retention, and how it can reduce donor remorse.

Podcast

sgEngage

JULY 26, 2021

In today’s episode, you’ll hear from Melissa Rancour, Principal Instructional Designer at Blackbaud University about why it’s important to talk about change management, the importance of the questions that need to be asked about change and what order to ask them in, and what to do with the questions once you know them.

Change Management

Cadmium CD

JUNE 4, 2024

public health school.

University

ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 26, 2012

posted by Leslie Beecher , Instructional Designer. Over the past four years, I have worked as an instructional designer in the for-profit education world and am excited to have transitioned into the nonprofit sector. ASU Lodestar Center.

Professional

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

I was honored to be involved with the instructional design and delivery of two workshops specifically for nonprofits. I was honored to be involved with the instructional design and delivery of two workshops specifically for nonprofits. … Read More

Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2013

My job responsibilities: designing and delivering capacity building programs for artists, arts organizations, and arts educators to gain these new skills. I was lucky enough to have opportunities to co-teach with superb educators where I jokingly say that I acquired my degree in instructional design! In addition, I was lucky enough to be (..)

Communication

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

This gives me some more insight about how to make teaching this concept more accessible. Please leave a comment.

Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn. This post summarizes some learning research and offers some tips for delivering effective webinars.

Design

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I’m honored to be involved with the instructional design and delivery of two workshops specifically for nonprofits. This year SXSW is offering something new: workshops on a wide range of topics from some of the top people in their industry. The workshops are included in the price of an Interactive, Gold, or Platinum Badge.

Interaction

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

While I did a pretty thorough participant assessment survey before finalizing the content, the instructional design and creating materials, I always like to get a group understanding of the learning goals and get people ready to learn. Develop a first draft of a crowd funding strategy for their organization.

Active

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

Learning Objectives: Understand why it is important to incorporate social media tools in your instructional practice for trainings. How to think like a social instructional designer. I also try to identify a framework that will help me design the content. Audience Research.

Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2013

What are you focusing on for 2013?

Tunisia

Tableau

JANUARY 8, 2021

Tableau Academic Programs Instructional Designer. Sue Kraemer. Kristin Adderson. January 8, 2021 - 3:49pm. January 8, 2021. Bridge the data literacy gap for students in academia.

Literacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I've been experimenting with integrating social media into instruction for the past five years, so the webinar was a great opportunity to reflect on practice. I covered these three topics: Why: Social media integrated into instruction - Pass or Fail? What: The art of social instructional design. How: 6 Tools and Tips.

Channel

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Good participatory design and instructional design for that matter needs a closure exercise. In some instances, you might need a longer amount of time to do this exercise, but the way this was facilitated with 50 people was highly productive and efficient. There are usually two aspects of this.

Facilitation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

It is humbling when you actually get feedback from the people you are designing something for. While I doubt that I will ever have to do design interfaces for a new car radio, the process was a stark reminder to me as an instructional designer to always get empathy from students in the course design process.

Facilitation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective. It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud. You have to ask, how is polling the audience and seeing the aggregate results helping people learn?

Poll

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. Program Design. Iftikhar Soomro and Seema Zameer — all of whom understand capacity building programs.

Pakistan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2006

Reminds of something I read today about learning design and games. It came from Richard Van Eck's presentation "An Instructional Designer Looks at Digital Game-Based Learning." Learning Retention Rates Originally uploaded by Eric Rice.

Retention

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

As a trainer and now adjunct professor, I’m constantly working on and honing these skills sets: assessment, instructional design, curriculum/materials development, presenting, facilitation, and evaluation. There is a lot of learn and refine in each of these areas. And that’s why I love teaching and training because it is all about (..)

Facilitation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Here are some thoughts about tweaking the instructional design: Game Length and Instructional Context. I learned a lot about how to begin to adapt the game process for people with a program orientation. I look for examples that match the principles for effective use and incorporate them into the presentation.

Program

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Good instructional design to create an environment for peer dialogue begins with good on boarding and for people to connect with something they already know or believe. So, one of the things I highly value about instructional design is the time and space to reflect on what worked and what didn’t work.

Reflection

The Nerdy NonProfit

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Amy started with Artisan as a contract writer/instructional designer. Use these strategies to create e-learning content that’s not just interesting or checking a needed box, but actually useful for your team. Guest Contributor. Amy Morrisey is the President of Artisan E-Learning and serves as Sales & Marketing Manager.

Effective

Care2

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Before this, he was an Instructional Designer and Editor at Element K, a provider of learning solutions for businesses and nonprofits. He is responsible for day-to-day oversight and the development of new product enhancements. Prior to this, George served as an E-Learning Coordinator for the Foundation Center.

Advocacy

Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

AI-Powered Design and Development The impact of artificial intelligence in training has been profound in the design and development field. are now on their way to transforming how learning experiences and instructional designs are curated and created with AI.

Impact

Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

AI-Powered Design and Development The impact of artificial intelligence in training has been profound in the design and development field. are now on their way to transforming how learning experiences and instructional designs are curated and created with AI.

Impact

Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

AI-Powered Design and Development The impact of artificial intelligence in training has been profound in the design and development field. are now on their way to transforming how learning experiences and instructional designs are curated and created with AI.

Learning

Candid

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The two of us—combining our experience as a grantwriter, researcher, and grant instructor for 30-plus years and as an instructional designer who regularly uses generative AI, respectively—will discuss the basics: what generative AI is, how it can be useful in a grantwriting context, and how to use the content it generates with caution.    

Generation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2013

I’ve been working program and instructional design, facilitation of peer calls and workshops – in collaboration with the fantastic team at Spitfire.

Reflection

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

How To Think Like An Instructional Designer. It also gave me a good opportunity to take stock and pull together a selection of posts on how to do effective technology training: 6 Books for Nonprofit Trainers. 6 Tips for Evaluating Your Training Session. Why Movement Is the Killer App for Training. The Art of Good Openings and Closings.

Train

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Keeping nonprofit audiences engaged during training can improve your outcomes. People pay attention more, they learn something, they retain it better, and there is a better chance of them applying what they learned.

Audience

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2005

My colleague, Cheryl Hanback, is working on a project for her masters degree in instructional design. She needs as many people as possible to fill out this 1-minute survey about pain incurred from sitting at a computer.

Instructional Design

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

I’m preparing for a webinar and with any training I begin the instructional design with surveying participants to understand their level, learning goals, and attitudes about the subject matter. “I kissed a squirrel & I liked it” #ReplaceGirlWithSquirrelInASong. Billboard (@billboard) April 4, 2014.

Social Media

Association 4.0 TM podcast

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Robb wears many hats, overseeing education, program creation, instructional design, accreditation, and online learning, all in the pursuit of advancing healthcare and professional development.

Learning Environment