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What Does an eLearning Consultant Do? The Complete Guide

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An eLearning consultant can help you answer this question and more. Through that work, we’ve seen the common questions that associations face when it comes to hiring an eLearning consultant— and now, we’re here to answer them: What is an eLearning consultant? Converting in-person educational events into virtual and hybrid events.

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Reflections on a Decade of Designing and Facilitating Interactive Webinars

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Because webinars were a new medium to trainers back then, I used Richard Mayer’s research on multi-media learning based on understanding how the brain works and the ability to pay attention to guide the instructional design. In order to do that, you have to think like an instructional designer !

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Webinars: Designing Effective Learning Experiences

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. Facilitating Virtual Small Groups: The webinar software has the ability for participants to ask the instructor to come to their group if they have question.

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5 Essential CME LMS Features for Your Healthcare Association

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This includes social distancing and masks for safety, building capacity limits for instructor-led training, and of course, the mass pivot of all in-person events to the virtual sphere. Fewer questions from frustrated users, members who are readily and eagerly engaging with your LMS, and increases in non-dues revenue as a result.

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How To Make A Back Channel Light Up Like Clark Griswald's House

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I got an email from hosts Chris Uschan and Tony Veroeven who shared some numbers, "We had 190 attend and ask 140 questions in a back channel that looked like Clark Griswald 's House at Christmas!". I covered these three topics: Why: Social media integrated into instruction - Pass or Fail? What: The art of social instructional design.

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How To Incorporate More Movement Into Your Nonprofit Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They help “air out the brain” and can help a tired group regain focus. I incorporate energizers into webinars (see slide 22) and virtual meetings. Most recently, when I facilitated design lab to gather research about nonprofits and self-care for my forthcoming book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit.

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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

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Separately, MedBiquitous’s Learning Experience Working Group has completed a draft of its first profile, Virtual Patients, and has started work on its second profile, titled Human Patient Simulators, Mannequins and Task Trainers. If implemented, that will make a big difference.

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