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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Learning Theory Learning Brain Exercise 139

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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Instructional Design Instructional Instruction Train 113

Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

A few things I learned from the presentations and discussion: Dan shared a useful 4-step mental model for the progression of how institutions move towards participatory engagement. Kris talked about brain research related to the potential cognitive and social impacts of participation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

The session not only included training tips, but modeled them during the session so that the audience interacted and practiced skills directly. The 2016 session took all of the trainers’ lessons learned from the previous session and improved upon the presentation and exercises.

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