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Why Movement Is the Killer Learning App for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. Internal: These theories take into account our minds and bodies.

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Six Tips for Evaluating Your Nonprofit Training Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Use Learning Theory. I have written a lot about how it is important to understand how the brain works, how people learn by using learning theories to guide the design of your workshops. What part of the workshop should be changed to improve learning? You can ask people to share it anonymously.

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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

Identify champions and people to work with. These are the people who will get the ECB ball rolling and actively manage the ECB process. People who understand or intuitively value evaluation. Staff who know the program, the people, and the culture well. What does the decision making and organizational structure look like?

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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How to Be a Wizard at Tech Training Design and Delivery

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In the first portion of the training, Jeanne and Cindy modeled four great practices for designing training content, including: Spend a little time researching adult learning theory, or. Incorporate the three learning styles: visual, audio, and somatic.

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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. I use TweetScan for tracking people???s

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The Future of Social: Gen Z

NonProfit Hub

Beth is an expert in facilitating online and offline peer learning, curriculum development based on traditional adult learning theory and other instructional approaches. Dosomething.Org , an organization focused on activating young people in social good campaigns, is an expert at engaging and activating Gen Z donors.

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