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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2013

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. I want to understand how to make this skill accessible to all of us. What are you focusing on for 2013?

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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. The project supports a cohort of children’s health care insurance advocates with monthly peer calls, a face-to-face annual workshop, and expert one-on-one coaching from SpitFire coaches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods. Instructional Design and Facilitation: I love teaching and exploring different ways help nonprofit professionals learn.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 4, 2016

One of the largest problems with learning content in our industry is ensuring its effectiveness, as well as appropriately catering it to the needs of individual organizations. That can be traceable and effective, giving appropriate tricks and tips on how to be more effective within certain roles within an organization.

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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. Designing effective training is a both a science and an art form, what was the most training you attended and why?

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Tableau

JANUARY 8, 2021

Tableau Academic Programs Instructional Designer. These two data literacy courses aim to provide foundational knowledge to students so they can understand, explore, and effectively visualize and communicate with data. Both courses are designed to cover a typical ten-week course (one quarter) at an accredited university.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness. I worked with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to design, development and facilitate training on how staff can leverage professional networks for learning and in service of strategy, including a special session training your attention online.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

An Expert’s Guide to Training Evaluation: Requirements, Models, Levels, and Challenges GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - Business organizations nowadays utilize a variety of training methods to ensure that they keep improving. Now, within an organization, employees improve their capabilities by learning new skills.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

An Expert’s Guide to Training Evaluation: Requirements, Models, Levels, and Challenges GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - Business organizations nowadays utilize a variety of training methods to ensure that they keep improving. Now, within an organization, employees improve their capabilities by learning new skills.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

An Expert’s Guide to Training Evaluation: Requirements, Models, Levels, and Challenges Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems Business organizations nowadays utilize a variety of training methods to ensure that they keep improving. Let us explore this process of evaluation in greater detail below.

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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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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

A Complete Guide on eLearning GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - There is no denying how effective and convenient eLearning is in this digital era, especially in these unprecedented difficult times. A successful eLearning roadmap includes certain effective strategies and a clear goal. What is eLearning?

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

A Complete Guide on eLearning GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - There is no denying how effective and convenient eLearning is in this digital era, especially in these unprecedented difficult times. A successful eLearning roadmap includes certain effective strategies and a clear goal. What is eLearning?

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

A Complete Guide on eLearning Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems There is no denying how effective and convenient eLearning is in this digital era, especially in these unprecedented difficult times. A successful eLearning roadmap includes certain effective strategies and a clear goal.

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Gyrus

JULY 14, 2016

However, my inability to participate aside, Pokémon Go is a very good application of Augmented Reality, and with the user base growing at such an alarming rate, it has caused many organizations to take pause and evaluate what seems to be endless opportunities in not only the game and its facets but in the delivery method itself.

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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. I'm still trying to refine a method on how to best help participants make the leap from the strategy brainstorm and learning about the different options for tools to honing in a focused experiment to implement in between sessions.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

A cloud-based Training Management System gives you a full platform to manage all eLearning, Instructor-Led Training (ILT) – in Classrooms and Webinars, Assessments and Certifications in a scalable and cost-effective solution A Learning Management system is no more a luxury but a necessity for a successful organization.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

A cloud-based Training Management System gives you a full platform to manage all eLearning, Instructor-Led Training (ILT) – in Classrooms and Webinars, Assessments and Certifications in a scalable and cost-effective solution A Learning Management system is no more a luxury but a necessity for a successful organization.

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Gyrus

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

This term represents a software platform designed to facilitate educational processes. Both educators and learners use it to manage and distribute knowledge effectively. It offers a framework that supports instructional design and delivers learning content to a broad audience. The LMS meaning in education is profound.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

A cloud-based Training Management System gives you a full platform to manage all eLearning, Instructor-Led Training (ILT) – in Classrooms and Webinars, Assessments and Certifications in a scalable and cost-effective solution A Learning Management system is no more a luxury but a necessity for a successful organization.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

From investing in upgraded LMS technology to creating a learning business plan to instructional design, each task involves a specific skill set that the average association professional may not have. You’re unable to pivot to new training methods, such as virtual events, and are behind the times.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

During January, I review my work routines, systems, and rituals to redesign or tweak them to improve productivity. Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness. Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

One thing I haven't been doing over the years is documenting the instructional design or lesson plan. (Reflections coming soon!) Last week, Gordon used a version of the game at a conference in NYC. His reflections below. It's been in my head. Some of the issues that Gordon describes below I've found creative ways to address those.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

Or, individuals in a business course could complete an open-ended case study-based assessment to test how well they can apply the information presented, effectively testing skills acquired. Of the various assessment methods in this list, group collaboration with feedback is easily the least quantitative method.

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

Creating a Sense of Community in Virtual Classrooms Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems About 70% of students prefer online learning over traditional classroom methods. It requires consistent effort, creative instructional design, and regular communication.

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

About 70% of students prefer online learning over traditional classroom methods. 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.

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Classrooms: Benefits and Beyond GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - About 70% of students prefer online learning over traditional classroom methods. It requires consistent effort, creative instructional design, and regular communication.

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

Maximizing ROI: The Benefits of Investing in a Learning Management System GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - Despite the initial cost implications, the benefits derived from an effectively utilized LMS always outweigh the investment. Compared to traditional methods, LMSs contribute to reducing the time and expense needed for compliance audits.

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

Maximizing ROI: The Benefits of Investing in a Learning Management System Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems Despite the initial cost implications, the benefits derived from an effectively utilized LMS always outweigh the investment. open-source, custom, SaaS) based on identified goals and outcomes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I’ve constantly stretching myself to learn new techniques that help nonprofits embrace and effectively put social media strategies and tools into practice as well as address the change management issues of becoming a Networked Nonprofit. Some Reflections. Balancing Learning Through Content Delivery and Sharing Experience.

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

Despite the initial cost implications, the benefits derived from an effectively utilized LMS always outweigh the investment. Enhanced Training Efficiency and Effectiveness Streamlined Content Delivery In order to successfully reach each individual learner, content must be streamlined and fragmented into different learning paths.

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