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. Internal: These theories take into account our minds and bodies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

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. Bear in mind that the model isn’t practical in all situations.

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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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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

Kris talked about brain research related to the potential cognitive and social impacts of participation. One of the resources she shared is a book called Brain Rules , which presents studies about the power of "cognitive force environment"--the idea that we need to be able to actually change an environment to learn from it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

The 2016 session took all of the trainers’ lessons learned from the previous session and improved upon the presentation and exercises. The basic premise remained the same: to give training tips, model them, and to provide “meta” data that gave a glimpse into the minds of the session designers.

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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): And one question I have in my mind is: Im already sold on compact proofs being a little bit cool. Theres this crosscoders paper.

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