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Six Tips for Evaluating Your Nonprofit Training Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” 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. Learner Culmination and Celebration.

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8 Reasons Why Bad Trainings Happen to Good Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You can find the presentation here and accompanying blog post, How To Think Like A Nonprofit Instructional Designer. Over on the SalsaLabs blog, they are doing a series on designing nonprofit tech training and I discovered this excellent rewrite of my post. Starved for attention: Show your trainees some love. Ask questions.

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Trainer’s Notebook: The Importance of Hands-On Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As part of the class , we look at different examples of networked strategies and digital platforms and tools and how they can be used to advance civil society goals. This combination of advanced planning and evaluation helps one continuously improve their instructional design.

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Free Webinar: Sharing Trainer's Social Media Bag of Tricks and Secrets

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For almost six years, she has been integrating social media tools and tricks into her instructional practice. She is going to share with you all her secrets, her tool bag, and other tips for using social media to create instructional materials, research your audience, deliver your workshop and follow up.

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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

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It’s still in the realm of custom content development – not something you can assign to your staff instructional designers – but it’s cheaper to do. That list of uses is apt: xAPI is the tool organizations should be using to study the efficacy, engagement, and value of online education.

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10+ Best eLearning Course Authoring Software Platforms

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Your overall learning business strategy and tech tools such as your learning management system (LMS) and eCommerce tools work together to deliver content to your learners. Your choice in course authoring software is just as crucial as the tools you choose to deliver the content to learners. What is course authoring software?

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Tips for Taking a Tech-Fueled Approach to Nonprofit Training

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Elevated Engagement and Interactivity: At Artisan, we worked with the American Red Cross to transform a less-than-engaging PowerPoint into a self-paced e-learning course. The success of your tech-fueled nonprofit training relies much less on the tools you use, but on how you use them. E-learning resources.