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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. As someone who has been designing and delivering training for nonprofits over the past twenty years, the most exciting part is apply theory to your practice.

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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

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 technology related. I was able to pull this off because my course took place in the Digital Learning Commons “ D-Space ” – a state of the art flexible classroom space. I most often have to hack the space.

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BIPOC Leadership Challenges: 26 Tips To Increase Accessibility Across The Nonprofit Sector

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This isn’t a way of thinking routinely instructed in underserved schools. Inner-city schools also often have high rates of teacher turnover, which can be disruptive for students and can make it difficult to maintain a high-quality learning environment. So what can the nonprofit sector do to help increase accessibility?

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How We Learn – Capitalize On Knowing

Gyrus

Our learning instruction we receive from youth into early adulthood is fairly regimented; teachers are taught how to convey information to students, and for the most part, they engage in the same methodology across their efforts. Do not be afraid to survey your department: People know how they like to learn.

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Creating a Culture of Continuous Learning

Gyrus

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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Learning Analytics: Big Data Applied to Training, Teaching, and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

To create the report, an international body of experts in education, technology, and other fields convene on a wiki to review research, practice, and significant trends. It is particularly relevant to those who are using online learning environments. The State of Learning Analytics in 2012: A Review and Future Challenges.

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Mobile Learning – Is it Finally Viable?

Gyrus

We as learning professionals already know that eLearning being ported to mobile for the sake of technological availability is not in itself an efficient utilization. Learning and Development must first address what they wish their personnel get out of their mobile learning programs.