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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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 digital technology and social media related.

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Social Media Measurement and Learning Analytics: How Do I Love Thee, Let Me Count the Ways

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I Love Social Media Measurement. I tested out the five phases of falling in love with measurement. Given the topic was measurement, I couldn’t help but go a little meta and play with incorporating learning analytics into the instruction. This blog post shares some insights about those two somewhat disconnected ideas.

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Six Tips for Evaluating Your Nonprofit Training Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Our session will share lots of great advice about what to do before , during , and after leading an effective technology training. Using the ADDIE for designing your workshop, you arrive at the “E” or evaluation. Evaluation is one of my favorite parts of the instructional design or training process.

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10 Types of eLearning Assessments for Your Courses

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We’re going to cover types of eLearning assessments through the following questions: What is an eLearning assessment? An eLearning assessment is a tool used to assess your members’ understanding of a topic and document that information in a measurable way. What are the different types of online assessment?

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The Secret To Social Media Engagement: Kiss A Squirrel!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Even asking direct questions doesn’t result in replies. How can we get people to talk to us? 4. Make it Buzzworthy.

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Transitioning from SCORM to xAPI

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Although I don’t expect instructional designers to leap from their desk chairs and start dancing in glee, the Department of Defense’s statement is an important symbol of change in the industry. By “traditional”, I mean developed-in-the-year-2000-why-is-our-industry-still-using-17-year-old-technology traditional.

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The Networked NGO in Pakistan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Purposeful Measurement to Inform Replication. Grantee organizations will measure what matters.

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