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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. ” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation.

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The 6 Hottest Training Technologies That You Can’t Overlook

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Newer technologies, tools, increased network bandwidth, and widespread access to the internet is enabling organizations to create an affordable and advanced video- based training programs, which can be used not just in online courses but in traditional and blended settings as well.

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Creating a Culture of Continuous Learning

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Establishing a formal policy of Continuous Learning. This is the most important step in promoting a continuous learning environment. This can be as rigid as convincing employees to go to collegiate courses to as lean as instructing an employee to schedule 30 minutes a quarter of self-guided learning via YouTube videos.

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PowerMyLearning: Free Online Education Games and Videos for Nonprofits and Libraries

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CFY was founded by Elisabeth Stock in 1999 with the mission of helping low-income students do better in school by improving their learning environments at home. Since then, the organization has partnered with hundreds of schools and provided digital learning resources to 50,000 families in five cities.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Party Metaphors, Conversations, and A Few Good Links

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Digital Natives Wiki illustrates the beginning stages of a larger research project on digital natives from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and other partners. I do this all the time with annotated screen shots to provide "just in time" answers versus typing out instructions. Not sure what a Game for Change is?

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The Future of the LMS

Gyrus

If you shop around the internet, you can have a hover board in your possession by no later than two days from now, in some locations, it can be in your hands in under 30 minutes and it could have even been delivered by a drone. In the Learning and Development world training has migrated from solely instructional and self-taught.