Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

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.

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Learning Theory Learning Brain Exercise 138

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

In your organization, this may look like negative attitudes toward evaluation, poor research designs and collecting data but not using the data. Nonprofit leaders have heard the call but are struggling to meet expectations due to a lack of basic resources, expertise and support. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity.

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Evaluation Program Attitude Nonprofit 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

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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Instructional Design Instruction Instructional Training 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

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. Obtaining a sense of skill level prior to training helps the trainer make spontaneous decisions about content modification to suit the audience.

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Training Train Design Tech 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Paul Schoemaker, founder and executive chairman of Decision Strategies international and research director of Wharton’s Mack Center for technological innovation, shares critical insights on the benefits of making well-chosen mistakes. The model balances content, learning design, and participants. Now You See It by Cathy Davidson.

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Skills Network Technique Evaluation 105

NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Beth is an expert in facilitating online and offline peer learning, curriculum development based on traditional adult learning theory and other instructional approaches. Optimize your search results (they do their Internet research). She has trained thousands of nonprofits around the world. Gen Z by the Numbers.

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Social Nigeria Student Cancer 28

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

There were times when coordinating a fire art festival while researching social capital theory made me want to burn my computer. 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.

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Museum Program Participatory Community 49