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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

Nonprofit leaders have heard the call but are struggling to meet expectations due to a lack of basic resources, expertise and support. Some things to consider include: What resources (technology, space, materials, time, finances, etc.) Has the organization embraced policies, resources and a culture that supports evaluation?

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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. I share these back with participants as part of the resources that I provide, often digitized and put on a wiki.

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NTEN Is Hiring an Educational Program Manager

NTEN

The new Educational Program Manager will work directly to serve the NTEN community by harnessing adult learning theory and educational curriculum development to provide the training and resources you need to use technology to further your organization's mission and good work. >

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Six Books About Skills You Need To Succeed in A Networked World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you’re doing social media and you’re trying to be perfect, get over it – you won’t learn how to improve what you’re doing. I’ve been curating resources on training techniques and capacity building over at scoop.it The model balances content, learning design, and participants.

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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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Twittering and Forgetting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The title of this post is a play on a book I read The Book of Learning and Forgetting by Frank Smith in 1998 when I was working with arts educators on integrating technology into their lesson plans. I would recommend technology resources and they would share books about learning. How can the two impulses be combined?

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More on Collaborative Knowledge Capture for Conferences Using Social Media Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That's simply because learning is a process that happens when the information shifts from short-term to long-term memory and results in changed beliefs and behaviors. Loretta, doe it depend on which learning theory you buy into? But, as such, it's just grist for the learning mill - it's not yet learning.