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

JANUARY 8, 2013

Creativity: How do you keep creative and generate new ideas, both individually and working within an organization. It is so easy to just do the same old thing all the time, but there is some discomfort in creating something new. I want to explore the methods and techniques for optimizing creativity and applying it your work.

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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. Use reflective listening skills and clear communication to adjust. Pay close attention to interactions with other people. Ask Good Questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

The curriculum was based on their “ Innovating for People ” design methods recipe book and “ taxonomy for innovation.” ” What is Human Centered Design? Is it only used by people with artistic talents and graphic design skills? Anyone can be a designer!

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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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you enjoy and are great at doing? Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you want to improve or work on? Good instructional design to create an environment for peer dialogue begins with good on boarding and for people to connect with something they already know or believe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

This peer learning exchange is designed to help state-based groups to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children. Over the past year, participants have been getting comfortable with social media skills, being strategic, making them a habit, and first steps with measurements.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Perhaps the question we should be asking instead is: How can we use these tools to create efficiencies and enhance our work? Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence that creates new content, such as text, images, or other media by learning from and combining pieces of existing data. Will I be replaced by ChatGPT?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

I tested out the five phases of falling in love with measurement. Given the topic was measurement, I couldn’t help but go a little meta and play with incorporating learning analytics into the instruction. This blog post shares some insights about those two somewhat disconnected ideas. Please leave a comment.

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Forj

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Instead, there is demand for what have been called 21 st century skills. Now that we’ve created solutions for easily defined problems, it’s time to focus our attention toward complex problems. Our eLearning curricula should promote these 21 st century skills. You can remember these by The Four C’s : Critical thinking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2013

This peer learning exchange is designed to help state-based groups to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children. I’ve been working program and instructional design, facilitation of peer calls and workshops – in collaboration with the fantastic team at Spitfire.

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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'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? Social Instructional Design.

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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. That is hard to do but a good professional skill in many other contexts than training.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

From optimizing logistics to detecting fraud and conducting research to creating art, AI applications are expanding phenomenally. Driving Strong and Impactful Digital-First Learning Strategies Creating digital-first learning strategies is now an L&D imperative as the workplace changes completely.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

From optimizing logistics to detecting fraud and conducting research to creating art, AI applications are expanding phenomenally. Driving Strong and Impactful Digital-First Learning Strategies Creating digital-first learning strategies is now an L&D imperative as the workplace changes completely.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

From optimizing logistics to detecting fraud and conducting research to creating art, AI applications are expanding phenomenally. Driving Strong and Impactful Digital-First Learning Strategies Creating digital-first learning strategies is now an L&D imperative as the workplace changes completely.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

I create a few pages in the beginning to write about my themes, what makes me happy, and what to improve. I facilitated a workshop to train emerging leaders on coaching skills at the YNPN Annual Summit and facilitated Happy Healthy Nonprofit Workshops, including one for the Americans for the Arts National Conference and Changemaker Camp.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 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. Participants create a poster of their networks, view other the network maps of others, and then do a debrief.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

I am particularly grateful to Cindy Leonard who compiled and consolidated our slides based on the design. Her photoshop skills were used in service of the star wars theme, including adding a red hat to Yoda. This took an extensive amount of planning and design on our part, an estimated 30 hours. The Feng Shui of Good Teaching.

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Forj

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Instead, there is demand for what have been called 21 st century skills. Now that we’ve created solutions for easily defined problems, it’s time to focus our attention toward complex problems. Our eLearning curricula should promote these 21 st century skills. You can remember these by The Four C’s : Critical thinking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Here are some thoughts about tweaking the instructional design: Game Length and Instructional Context. With more time, would have done a set of three looking experience/skill, comfort, and communications/program. She created a wonderful closing ritual that helped the community form.

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

For instance, Tencent-backed uLesson , YC-backed Kidato and LocalGlobe-backed Foondamate offer learning programs, via different methods, to K-12 students while the likes of Andela and GOMYCODE , among others, match skilled tech professionals and students with local and foreign employers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

I designed a 90-minute workshop focused on “Human-Centered Social Media Strategy” which teaches how to apply a simple design-thinking technique, creating personas, as the basis of your digital strategy. 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

OCTOBER 28, 2013

After the workshop in Ohio, one of the participants thanked me, saying that creating a strategy for integrated social media had been on their to do list after taking a workshop last Spring, but had never gotten around to doing it. It’s been great to discuss instructional design with other trainers that Deborah has brought together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

The first session focused on self-awareness skills. 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. Create ownership of solutions : “Based on your experience, what do you suggest we do here?”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. This post shares the content and I’ll share a post about the instructional design in a second post. What metrics will you use to measure success? And everyday until….

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

One annual ritual is to create “To Do/Not To Do/Reflection” notebook where I use modified bullet journaling to track my progress. In the US, I gave workshops at nonprofit conferences in Iowa, San Antonio, Iowa, Tahoe, Palm Beach, Miami, and San Francisco on networked leadership skills.

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DNL OmniMedia

JULY 14, 2021

Let’s walk through the benefits of using technology in your training strategy and how you can create e-learning courses that make an impact. So, let’s focus on how to create effective e-learning courses to train your team. . How can you create effective e-learning courses for your nonprofit? If it’s not broken, don’t fix it.”.

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Gyrus

JULY 19, 2016

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). Are you yourself as an instructional designer capable of ripping out the fluff and unnecessary components in order to optimize the microlearning?

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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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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

To start off, an eLearning consultant is an individual who provides advice and guidance to help organizations create successful eLearning programs. Some of these services include: Creating a strategy for your learning business. Creating a content development strategy. Let’s get started. What is an eLearning consultant?

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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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Gyrus

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

An e-learning authoring tool is software that allows you to create multimedia-rich digital training content. Instead, they come built with pre-designed templates and drag-and-drop features that allow you to create immersive courses in a fraction of the time. out of 5 Elearning Industry : 4.7 mo Reviews G2 User Rating : 3.9

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Gyrus

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

An e-learning authoring tool is software that allows you to create multimedia-rich digital training content. Instead, they come built with pre-designed templates and drag-and-drop features that allow you to create immersive courses in a fraction of the time. out of 5 Elearning Industry : 4.7 mo Reviews G2 User Rating : 3.9

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Gyrus

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

An e-learning authoring tool is software that allows you to create multimedia-rich digital training content. Instead, they come built with pre-designed templates and drag-and-drop features that allow you to create immersive courses in a fraction of the time. out of 5 Elearning Industry : 4.7 mo Reviews G2 User Rating : 3.9

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2016

Bersin by Deloitte’s infographic “ Meet the Modern Learner ” is an excellent summary of the challenges facing trainers who need to design and deliver professional development for nonprofit professionals. Instructional design is knowing how to organize your content and shape exercises based on brain and learning research.

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