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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. Here’s some examples.

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Six Tips for Evaluating Your Nonprofit Training Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But, if you use reflection, documentation,pilot tests, and iteration, it is like tasting your soup while there’s still time to make adjustments. I use both. Use Learning Theory. If you think of your training as making a soup, your participant survey is like the food critic’s review of the soup.

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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. > > Learn more and apply to join the NTEN Team!

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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

Some things to consider include: What resources (technology, space, materials, time, finances, etc.) What level of interest and incentives to learn and implement evaluation are present? After “talking the talk,” it’s time for evaluators to also “walk the walk” by evaluating the ECB process itself. are available?

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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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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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QuickBooks Keeps Kantorei Singing

Tech Soup

The participants learn the foundations of choir singing, such as posture and breathing, vocal technique, and tone. They also learn theory, ear training, foreign language skills, and the study of music within a social context. It was founded in 1964 and has served hundreds of members over the years.