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. There are also physical theories like brain-based learning and neuroscience.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

We used a Harry Potter theme to give the session a fun feel. Adults tend to interpret information received in a training based on existing knowledge in their brains and then integrate it with previous experiences. Incorporate the three learning styles: visual, audio, and somatic.

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 28, 2025

Daniel Filan (00:28:50): If people remember my singular learning theory episodes , theyll get mad at you for saying that quadratics are all there is, but its a decent approximation. (00:28:56): Its a fun thing. Maybe all we want to know is: the neural net is doing this amazing thing, or the brain is doing this amazing thing.

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