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Why Movement Is the Killer Learning App for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path.

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Six Tips for Evaluating Your Nonprofit Training Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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! Use Learning Theory. Has the workshop been effective in advancing the participant’s learning?

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Designing and delivering a training to a nonprofit audience is not about extreme content delivery or putting together a PowerPoint and answering questions. If you want to get results, you need to think about instructional design and learning theory. And, there is no shortage of learning theories and research.

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Six Books About Skills You Need To Succeed in A Networked World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The ideas, tips, and tricks are grounded in adult learning theory, but the book is very practical. I love David Sibbet, Rachel Smith, and everything Grove Consulting does. I had the pleasure of taking the visual facilitation workshop last fall (my write up is here ).

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More on Collaborative Knowledge Capture for Conferences Using Social Media Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" Loretta argues: The first supposition is that as various means are used to capture the proceedings of an event, (Nancy mentions: Chat/IRC, Videocasts, VOIPcasts, Podcasts, and Visual Facilitation), the performance of encapsulating and depicting is in itself learning. Loretta, doe it depend on which learning theory you buy into?

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Learning and Development Trends We Will Keep an Eye on in 2024

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Social and collaborative learning Collaborative learning brings most employees together in the form of learning cycles, group chat sessions, and content-sharing sessions. It makes learning more open and encourages employees to overcome their hesitations. Modern-day LMS excel in facilitating this process.

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Learning and Development Trends We Will Keep an Eye on in 2024

Gyrus

Social and collaborative learning Collaborative learning brings most employees together in the form of learning cycles, group chat sessions, and content-sharing sessions. It makes learning more open and encourages employees to overcome their hesitations. Modern-day LMS excel in facilitating this process.

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