Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2013

We asked participants to do a “think and write” and jot down one idea that resonated before facilitating a grand synthesis of what we learned about designing more impactful capacity building programs for grantees. You can read my guest post over the Communications Network Blog that summarizes these insights. Training Design'

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sgEngage

JULY 26, 2021

In today’s episode, you’ll hear from Melissa Rancour, Principal Instructional Designer at Blackbaud University about why it’s important to talk about change management, the importance of the questions that need to be asked about change and what order to ask them in, and what to do with the questions once you know them.

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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. For this exercise, it would have been helpful to have people in each group with some prior real life experience designing an ROI study. What are your tips and tricks for designing and delivering effective webinars?

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

For Learning and Development (L&D) professionals, instructional designers, and HR teams, AI tools are transforming the creation of videos, graphics, and voiceovers, making it easier than ever to deliver high-quality training materials at scale. Non-designers can create professional visuals easily.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

I thought I’d take this opportunity to reflect again on a decade of experience of designing and delivering interactive webinars. In order to do that, you have to think like an instructional designer ! This requires a lot of more thinking through the design and technical practice to run smoothly.).

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sgEngage

MAY 24, 2021

Listen in to today’s episode to hear Melissa Rancour, principal instructional designer for Blackbaud University, talk about what social good organizations can do to get others invested and talking about their cause, the effect this has on donor retention, and how it can reduce donor remorse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

The session will cover what to do before, during, and after leading an effective technology training and provide lots of practical tips that will help you design fun, interactive, and highly effective technology training workshops. Brilliance by Design: Creating Learning Experiences that Connect, Inspire, and Engage. Training Design'

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Design for Participants To Apply. It’s been great to discuss instructional design with other trainers that Deborah has brought together. Design for Different Levels of Capacity and Skills: Adapt in Real Time. So, you have to design for that. This takes a bit more effort than putting together a slide deck.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

MYTH: LMS makes it essential to hire third-party experts Hiring an instructional designer or a third-party expert is not essential for every training session. This will make it easy for anyone in your team to modify or design the training content. It is recommended to choose an LMS that offers easy-to-customize templates.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

MYTH: LMS makes it essential to hire third-party experts Hiring an instructional designer or a third-party expert is not essential for every training session. This will make it easy for anyone in your team to modify or design the training content. It is recommended to choose an LMS that offers easy-to-customize templates.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

MYTH: LMS makes it essential to hire third-party experts Hiring an instructional designer or a third-party expert is not essential for every training session. This will make it easy for anyone in your team to modify or design the training content. It is recommended to choose an LMS that offers easy-to-customize templates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2013

All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! Evaluation is one of my favorite parts of the instructional design or training process. Use Learning Theory.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

While choosing a new LMS, look for the following: Design: The LMS must have a responsive design, i.e., it should be accessible on all devices, such as laptops, smartphones, and tablets. How to Choose a New LMS? User interface: The user interface should be intuitive and easy to navigate.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

While choosing a new LMS, look for the following: Design: The LMS must have a responsive design, i.e., it should be accessible on all devices, such as laptops, smartphones, and tablets. How to Choose a New LMS? User interface: The user interface should be intuitive and easy to navigate.

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The Nerdy NonProfit

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

You design courses that specifically target what the learner needs. Design a course that targets that change. For the work-from-home example, this could be a simulation that walks through how to design the perfect home workspace. Your nonprofit’s staff and volunteers need to relate to any courses you design.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The two of us—combining our experience as a grantwriter, researcher, and grant instructor for 30-plus years and as an instructional designer who regularly uses generative AI, respectively—will discuss the basics: what generative AI is, how it can be useful in a grantwriting context, and how to use the content it generates with caution.    

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

While choosing a new LMS, look for the following: Design: The LMS must have a responsive design, i.e., it should be accessible on all devices, such as laptops, smartphones, and tablets. How to Choose a New LMS? User interface: The user interface should be intuitive and easy to navigate.

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

But to do this effectively, businesses need to leverage the power of Learning Management Systems (LMS) that have the capacity to manage content and instructional design – and help in carving out personalized learning paths for the learners. Learn how to leverage virtual reality to engage millennia’s.

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

But to do this effectively, businesses need to leverage the power of Learning Management Systems (LMS) that have the capacity to manage content and instructional design – and help in carving out personalized learning paths for the learners. Learn how to leverage virtual reality to engage millennia’s.

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Trend Develop Learning Mobile Learning 52

Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

But to do this effectively, businesses need to leverage the power of Learning Management Systems (LMS) that have the capacity to manage content and instructional design – and help in carving out personalized learning paths for the learners. Learn how to leverage virtual reality to engage millennia’s.

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sgEngage

APRIL 25, 2022

Design and develop course prototypes. The partner creates a prototype of the course to illustrate key design elements and the overall direction of the course. . Or, you could assign review duties by expertise—such as having your graphic designer review imagery and branding, SMEs review relevant educational content, and so on. .

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

Designing an evaluation plan The evaluation plan is a document that describes the: Goals Objectives Procedures for evaluating the training. ADDIE Model The ADDIE model is a systematic approach to instructional design and development that can be used in training programs.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

Designing an evaluation plan The evaluation plan is a document that describes the: Goals Objectives Procedures for evaluating the training. ADDIE Model The ADDIE model is a systematic approach to instructional design and development that can be used in training programs.

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Evaluation Model Training Train 40

Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

Designing an evaluation plan The evaluation plan is a document that describes the: Goals Objectives Procedures for evaluating the training. ADDIE Model The ADDIE model is a systematic approach to instructional design and development that can be used in training programs.

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Evaluation Model Training Train 40

Gyrus

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

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. If you don’t have or can’t afford an in-house instructional designer or a developer to design and develop the courses you need. The answer to this is subjective.

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Gyrus

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

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. If you don’t have or can’t afford an in-house instructional designer or a developer to design and develop the courses you need. The answer to this is subjective.

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Authoring Tool eLearning Authoring Tools 52

Gyrus

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

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. If you don’t have or can’t afford an in-house instructional designer or a developer to design and develop the courses you need. The answer to this is subjective.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Mel Rancour, principal instructional designer for Blackbaud University’s Organizational Best Practices curriculum, joins today’s episode to talk about why you want to begin audit prep now, how this year is going to differ from previous years, and resources to help you get started with your preparations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

As a trainer and subject matter expert, I fight a big battle when designing a workshop. Balancing the amount of content delivery with exercises and right sizing given the available time for the workshop. This where design thinking methods and innovation lab facilitation techniques can be helpful. Training Design'

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Gyrus

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Instructional designers can now develop and deploy e-learning courses that are not just easily accessible, but also very cost-efficient. The instructional designers can directly upload the e-learning courses through their internet browsers. But, do you know the major benefits of a cloud based LMS?

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Gyrus

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Instructional designers can now develop and deploy e-learning courses that are not just easily accessible, but also very cost-efficient. The instructional designers can directly upload the e-learning courses through their internet browsers. But, do you know the major benefits of a cloud based LMS?

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Gyrus

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Instructional designers can now develop and deploy e-learning courses that are not just easily accessible, but also very cost-efficient. The instructional designers can directly upload the e-learning courses through their internet browsers. But, do you know the major benefits of a cloud based LMS?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

The program is specially design to leverage the power of technology in supporting women’s rights and social justice leaders and organizations to advance their work and impact. Breaking a large group into small groups for an exercise is also instructional design challenge. ” at Twitter Headquarters this week.

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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. Training Design'

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 26, 2012

posted by Leslie Beecher , Instructional Designer. Over the past four years, I have worked as an instructional designer in the for-profit education world and am excited to have transitioned into the nonprofit sector. ASU Lodestar Center.

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