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Volunteer Training: Exceeding Expectations

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Benjamin Franklin once said β€œAn investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” Here are a few additional benefits hands on training provides: Provides supporters with a safe learning environment. Offers supporters the opportunity to collaborate and learn from others. Leverage Existing Skill-sets.

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

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Learning analytics is not brand new and first identified in the education area in about 2008 according to this excellent primer on Learning Analytics that found by searching the Project Navigator on the topic. It is particularly relevant to those who are using online learning environments.

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The Olympics and Learning – A Fierce Combination

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Though in one realm people are representing their countries and battling in beloved sports, and the other, we’re just trying to learn better and convince people along the way that they can too. So how is the Learning and Development landscape like the Olympics? However, that is not the direction I plan on taking this blog post.

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Election Day – Using Social Media Campaign Methods to Enhance Learning Programs

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FOMO is a powerful tool for learning engagement as it allows program organizers the ability to project a needs based urgency to learners organization-wide. Imagine your learners displaying proud badges of time spent within their learning environment, and what effect that may have directly on their co-workers. Conclusion.

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How to Design an Effective Nonprofit Staff Retreat: A Lesson from Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The first step in the DLP is identifying projected outcomes: what do you want learners to achieve? Clarity of intent is key for any learning event. The Priming phase of the DLP sets the stage for learning before the event takes place through two processes: pre-assessment and pre-work. Step 1: Be Intentional About Intent.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This is where you identify the learning goals, audience needs, existing knowledge, and other background by doing audience research. Ideally, audience research should be done before you design your workshop or course. The physical space you are working in will also help inform your design.

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Learning and Development: The Presidential Debate Edition

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This projection is set to grow throughout at least the next two presidential terms, and I for one would like to help educate potential users on all of the great features of which they can be getting out of their learning environments. How secure is your LMS environment? Topic 5: Setting Proper Permissions within your LMS.

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