The Nerdy NonProfit

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

So, how can you create effective content for nonprofit e-learning? Who are you creating e-learning content for? Let’s say you’re creating courses for Valerie (or any other volunteer you can visualize). Well, in the excitement of creating new e-learning courses, it’s easy to get hung up on all of the shiny details.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

I love all aspects instructional design and facilitation , but being a good trainer also means being a good content curator and resource librarian. You will find answers to questions like, “Why are some learning tasks easier in the morning or afternoon?” ” Plus many more provocative questions.

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

That begs the question – what’s in store for the L&D space in 2024? Personalized learning strives to understand the requirements of learners and creates the training curriculum based on their specific needs. Short videos (aka micro-learning) are all the more suitable for creating job aids.

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

That begs the question – what’s in store for the L&D space in 2024? Personalized learning strives to understand the requirements of learners and creates the training curriculum based on their specific needs. Short videos (aka micro-learning) are all the more suitable for creating job aids.

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

That begs the question – what’s in store for the L&D space in 2024? Personalized learning strives to understand the requirements of learners and creates the training curriculum based on their specific needs. Short videos (aka micro-learning) are all the more suitable for creating job aids.

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

An effective strategy to utilize the potential of virtual learning is to create a strong sense of community within online classrooms — using the virtual environment as a means to reinforce community practices. Online learning is even said to enhance information retention by 25% to 60%. What Is Virtual Learning?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Our session will share lots of great advice about what to do before , during , and after leading an effective technology training. Using the ADDIE for designing your workshop, you arrive at the “E” or evaluation. Evaluation is one of my favorite parts of the instructional design or training process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

It has been a pleasure to co-design this session with knowledgeable and smart colleagues who are as obsessed with instructional design and interactive exercises as I am. Instructional Design. 8 Tips for Designing Powerful Nonprofit Training Workshops. Flexible Space: Designing for Interaction.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

ADDIE Model The ADDIE model is a systematic approach to instructional design and development that can be used in training programs. Its acronym stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. This model is often used as a framework for developing a training program.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

ADDIE Model The ADDIE model is a systematic approach to instructional design and development that can be used in training programs. Its acronym stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. This model is often used as a framework for developing a training program.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

ADDIE Model The ADDIE model is a systematic approach to instructional design and development that can be used in training programs. Its acronym stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. This model is often used as a framework for developing a training program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

WEF encouraged people to create a selfie video for 20 seconds asking a question that a world leader would answer. As part of our class, students composed a question and recorded a video related to their area of study and sent it off to Davos. So far, two of my students have had their questions answered.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

An eLearning consultant can help you answer this question and more. Through that work, we’ve seen the common questions that associations face when it comes to hiring an eLearning consultant— and now, we’re here to answer them: What is an eLearning consultant? Creating a content development strategy. That’s great! Final Report.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

While I did a pretty thorough participant assessment survey before finalizing the content, the instructional design and creating materials, I always like to get a group understanding of the learning goals and get people ready to learn. paper into quarters, number the spaces, and answer the questions or draw pictures.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

I was honored to be involved with the instructional design and delivery of two workshops specifically for nonprofits. The presentations ended with a reflective practice question that participants could discuss with someone in the room, think about quietly, or tweet using the hashtag #npsmpeer. I created a storify of the tweets.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

An LMS that is easy-to-log-in from potentially any remote location creates a central point from which to provide training no matter where your employees are. These are all questions that can be answered, concisely, and immediately within an LMS platform. Who needs additional learning? What skill-sets are required?

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

An LMS that is easy-to-log-in from potentially any remote location creates a central point from which to provide training no matter where your employees are. These are all questions that can be answered, concisely, and immediately within an LMS platform. Who needs additional learning? What skill-sets are required?

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

An LMS that is easy-to-log-in from potentially any remote location creates a central point from which to provide training no matter where your employees are. These are all questions that can be answered, concisely, and immediately within an LMS platform. Who needs additional learning? What skill-sets are required?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2014

You can find the presentation here and accompanying blog post, How To Think Like A Nonprofit Instructional Designer. Over on the SalsaLabs blog, they are doing a series on designing nonprofit tech training and I discovered this excellent rewrite of my post. Ask questions. Reign in your facts, figures and stories.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

At Web Courseworks, we specialize in both learning management systems (LMSs) equipped with assessment authoring tools and providing consulting services to help professional, medical, and trade associations create top-tier eLearning experiences for their members. For example, you could ask learners to: Create a timeline. Sequencing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The team’s first planning session should be one of learning about each’s other trade craft versus diving into the design of the session. That’s hard if deadlines are looming, but essential to have a session to explore questions such as: What is your facilitation style and philosophy? Do you have a preferred method?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

We received copies of his Luma’s book and cards, “Innovation for People,” which is a synthesis of landscape analysis of design-thinking and human centered design methods. A frequent question Peter is asked about how an organization can become more innovative. “What are the skills that we need to practice for 10,000 hours?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

A follow up question revealed that a big challenge is making goals measurable. This gives me some more insight about how to make teaching this concept more accessible. Bonus: Spreadsheet Appreciation. Please leave a comment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

I’m preparing for a webinar and with any training I begin the instructional design with surveying participants to understand their level, learning goals, and attitudes about the subject matter. Even asking direct questions doesn’t result in replies. How can we get people to talk to us? 4. Make it Buzzworthy.

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Forj

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Although I don’t expect instructional designers to leap from their desk chairs and start dancing in glee, the Department of Defense’s statement is an important symbol of change in the industry. SCORM authoring tools are intended to create standardized curricula content that can easily be moved from one LMS to another.

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

When it comes to training, your staff has new questions. Let’s explore a few big changes and how you can create custom-developed courses to incorporate them. Adjustments to Course Design and Development. Custom-designed, relatable courses. Creative, engaging design decisions. Evolutions in Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Participants took the “Columbia Leadership Styles” diagnostic created by Paul Ingram and Bruce Craven in 2013 that session leader Jeffrey Golde had customized for arts leaders. Analytical Style people control their emotions but tend to ask questions rather than give orders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I had sooo much fun creating and delivering it. I got an email from hosts Chris Uschan and Tony Veroeven who shared some numbers, "We had 190 attend and ask 140 questions in a back channel that looked like Clark Griswald 's House at Christmas!". I covered these three topics: Why: Social media integrated into instruction - Pass or Fail?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

This took an extensive amount of planning and design on our part, an estimated 30 hours. The room setup fought with our design, but we managed to make it work. There were some excellent “burning questions” that folks shared about nonprofit training. How To Think Like An Instructional Designer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I had to learn how to create web pages, manage email, modem escape codes, navigate the Internet, and whatever came along. And then immediately create instructional materials and trainings for the community. For almost six years, she has been integrating social media tools and tricks into her instructional practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

We created The Emerging Leaders Playbook which served as the “text book” or content for the training. The specific practice skills include these three: Ask empowering questions. Ask Good Questions. Often, these types of questions focus on failure or betray that the questioner has an agenda.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Jennifer made use of an app called “ Answer Qwik ” that allows participants to answer polling questions on their mobile phones and have the aggregate results shown on the screen. see above) It is designed to be used in face-to-face workshops and conferences. In other words, to what end?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. Program Design. 3. Create A World Fusion Curriculum. organizational change, and technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

The curriculum and instructional design included " Principles of Effective Social Media for Nonprofits " and a version of the social media game created with David Wilcox. As a culture, we value answers over questions because answers allow us to take action faster, while asking questions makes us think.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2015

But none of this would not have been possible if not for the dedication, vision, and leadership from Andrew Means, who has passionately been working on creating a learning community of nonprofit professionals interested in data for social change called Data Analysts for Social Good. Markets for Good (@MarketsForGood) May 1, 2015.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

For example, after you divide participants into small groups to work on a project, you can have them create wall posters and then do a walking-around debrief. Keeping nonprofit audiences engaged during training can improve your outcomes. Movement can also be integrated with the topics. Or speed-geek, which is similar to speed dating.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

The conference in Morocco was a “tri-lingual event” and was translated into French, English, and Arabic, although the content and instructional design were identical to the event in Jordan. This blog post is a summary of reflections about the instructional design and how NGOs in these countries are becoming Networked NGOs.

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