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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. ” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation.

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How We Learn – Capitalize On Knowing

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This post is written based on my personal understanding and could reflect deficiencies experienced in my own personal learning process. To begin we should evaluate what a younger version of myself experienced in the learning process. Scientists have embarked on the challenge of truly determining how we learn.

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Mobile Learning – Is it Finally Viable?

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Evolution of the Content. We as learning professionals already know that eLearning being ported to mobile for the sake of technological availability is not in itself an efficient utilization. Instead, effective content is and must be designed specifically for use on our handheld devices and tablets.

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The 6 Hottest Training Technologies That You Can’t Overlook

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Virtual Environment and Avatars: Virtual learning environments bring the social interaction part of traditional classroom training into the e-learning world. These are human looking avatars in the form of a cartoon, a 3D character instructing and engaging with learners during the training process.

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Learning and Development: The Presidential Debate Edition

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This projection is set to grow throughout at least the next two presidential terms, and I for one would like to help educate potential users on all of the great features of which they can be getting out of their learning environments. Topic 2: Where is the LMS Industry Going? Topic 3: Implementation – An off the cuff walkthrough.

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The Concept of Microlearning

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Today, we will evaluate microlearning and the potential it carries in reference to bolstering a learning program. Microlearning is a brief (less than 5 minute) learning component with a focus on a very particular learning object (specifically a skill, behavior, or compliance piece). The Concept of Microlearning.

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The Future of the LMS

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As we embark hundreds of years down the road from some of these grand musings and green field possibilities, it is important to look back and evaluate what we as humans have actually accomplished. In the Learning and Development world training has migrated from solely instructional and self-taught. Mobile Content.