Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding. I use this design checklist to identify interactive exercises. More importantly, after every class I facilitate, I do a debrief with students as part of evaluating the training.

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

Online learning is even said to enhance information retention by 25% to 60%. Virtual Reality and Immersive Experiences Instructors can create virtual environments for simulations, field trips, or even collaborative projects, where students can interact with course content and each other in a 3D space.

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

Online learning is even said to enhance information retention by 25% to 60%. Virtual Reality and Immersive Experiences Instructors can create virtual environments for simulations, field trips, or even collaborative projects, where students can interact with course content and each other in a 3D space.

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

Online learning is even said to enhance information retention by 25% to 60%. Virtual Reality and Immersive Experiences Instructors can create virtual environments for simulations, field trips, or even collaborative projects, where students can interact with course content and each other in a 3D space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

In 90 minutes, we did two exercises that helped participants identify their target audience and then build out a persona, a fictionalized character that described motivations, barriers and identifies the right content and channels to use. Breaking a large group into small groups for an exercise is also instructional design challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. His research shows that professional development learning experiences need to be as interactive as possible to boost retention. The first 90-minute webinar to introduced the content. It was delivered in two sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Designing and facilitating training (not matter the topic) is one of my passions and why I blog about it on a regular basis. As a facilitator, you have to watch the participants body language and look for the “slump,” and if you notice people getting tired, interject some movement. Photo: Americans for the Arts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I blogged about the content last week. I've been experimenting with integrating social media into instruction for the past five years, so the webinar was a great opportunity to reflect on practice. I covered these three topics: Why: Social media integrated into instruction - Pass or Fail? I think you can design around it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. Most importantly, I need a good facilitator for each table. It is important to vary your instructional delivery because the human brain -on average - can only concentrate for 12 minutes. Varying the delivery improves retention. Somethings to improve.

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