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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

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Designing and delivering a training to a nonprofit audience is not about extreme content delivery or putting together a PowerPoint and answering questions. If you want to get results, you need to think about instructional design and learning theory. And, there is no shortage of learning theories and research.

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Twittering and Forgetting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Smith's book explains the history of learning theories and practice. He establishes two ways of thinking about educational practice--the official view of learning and the classical view. The official view of learning is the belief that it only occurs when a person is taught. and tag it. Many times I forget.

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

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The purpose of my thesis was two-fold: To research and analyze community and civic engagement practices, methods, theories and examples in other museum programs. This can be accomplished through a variety of feedback methods conducted both inside and outside the museum. Cardboard tube orchestra at Radical Craft Night.

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