Instruction, Instructional Design, Report and Technique

Designing engaging and effective learning experiences

Candid

JUNE 5, 2024

Whether you’re trying to equip your team with the latest fundraising techniques or preparing volunteers to tackle new challenges, the quality of your training materials will impact your organization’s effectiveness. What is Instructional Design? Use digital storytelling techniques.

Design

Design Experiment Effective Learning

How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. ” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. I do this all the time.

Instructional Design

Instructional Design Instruction Instructional Train

Trainer’s Notebook: Just A Few Participatory Facilitation Techniques

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Conferences are a great opportunity to take workshops and observe the facilitator’s techniques. Many of us do this and take content notes, but it is also great to take notes about instructional design and facilitation techniques. Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it.

Participatory

Participatory Facilitation Technique Asia

Webinars

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Trainer’s Notebook: Finding Inspiration and New Ideas for Facilitation Techniques

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

I always learn something from his participatory style, humor, and techniques. Here’s a few things I learned. My colleague, Dirk Slater , has written about how he applies Gunner’s techniques in his own technology/activist trainings. Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it.

Facilitation

Facilitation Technique Ideas Exercise

Trainer’s Notebook: Group Polling Techniques and Tools and Incorporating Movement

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective. Help the participants narrow down topics to discuss or work in small group exercises (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique). In other words, to what end?

Poll

Poll Technique Group Tools

Trainer’s Notebook: Using Posters To Spark Learning

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.

Learning

Learning Exercise San Francisco Instructional

Trainer’s Notebook: Integrating Thinking and Feedback Activities

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. This where design thinking methods and innovation lab facilitation techniques can be helpful.

Activities

Activities Activism Active Integration

LMS Integration Challenges and Solutions

Gyrus

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

According to a Statista report, educational organizations were subjected to 2314 weekly cyber attacks on average in 2022. Data Security Concerns Implementing robust encryption techniques is necessary to safeguard sensitive data. This alarming number highlights the gravity of this challenge.

Integration

Integration Challenge API Issue

LMS Integration Challenges and Solutions

Gyrus

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

According to a Statista report, educational organizations were subjected to 2314 weekly cyber attacks on average in 2022. Data Security Concerns Implementing robust encryption techniques is necessary to safeguard sensitive data. This alarming number highlights the gravity of this challenge.

Integration

Integration Challenge API Issue

LMS Integration Challenges and Solutions

Gyrus

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

According to a Statista report, educational organizations were subjected to 2314 weekly cyber attacks on average in 2022. Data Security Concerns Implementing robust encryption techniques is necessary to safeguard sensitive data. This alarming number highlights the gravity of this challenge.

Integration

Integration Challenge API System

Webinars: Designing Effective Learning Experiences

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. I also used composite scenarios based on real-life nonprofits needing to apply ROI techniques to technology purchase decisions. If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn.

Design

Design Effective Experiment Learning

Reflections on a Decade of Designing and Facilitating Interactive Webinars

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Because webinars were a new medium to trainers back then, I used Richard Mayer’s research on multi-media learning based on understanding how the brain works and the ability to pay attention to guide the instructional design. In order to do that, you have to think like an instructional designer !

Facilitation

Facilitation Interaction Reflection Design

NTEN Leading Change Summit #14lcs: Reflection

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.

Reflection

Reflection NTEN Change Exercise

Trainer’s Notebook: Reflections on Designing and Delivering Training To Get Results

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

It’s been great to discuss instructional design with other trainers that Deborah has brought together. Recently, Jennifer Ahern Lammer who is the program director for the Alliance of Nonprofit Management , shared several good design points developed by Peter York from TCG and how she applies it.

Reflection

Reflection Train Training Design

Using Peer Learning Strategies To Build A Network

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

Advocates have more partners or better partners, more or better relationships with reporters, and more or better policymaker relationships. intense days of meetings. The design incorporate many interactive learning techniques to ensure that participants were actively learning and sharing, and not falling asleep!

Network

Network Build Strategy Learning

The Networked NGO in Pakistan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. Program Design. organizational change, and technology.

Pakistan

Pakistan NGO Network Exercise

Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for 300 People

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I’ve using the technique to deliver conversational keynotes at conferences. I’m not sure if this was just the way it is, stage fright to report out to a large group that included funders, or perhaps it needed another method than mic runners (fixed mics stationed around the room?). (The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.).

Reflection

Reflection People Network Colorado

ArtsLabSF: Reflections About Social Learning With Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. I have been using human spectra gram , a technique I learned from colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. It is important to vary your instructional delivery because the human brain -on average - can only concentrate for 12 minutes. Photo by James Leventhal.

Social Media

Social Media Reflection Learning Social

Nonprofit Technology

Designing engaging and effective learning experiences

How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Webinars

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Trainer’s Notebook: Just A Few Participatory Facilitation Techniques

Webinars

Trainer’s Notebook: Finding Inspiration and New Ideas for Facilitation Techniques

Trainer’s Notebook: Group Polling Techniques and Tools and Incorporating Movement

Trainer’s Notebook: Using Posters To Spark Learning

Trainer’s Notebook: Integrating Thinking and Feedback Activities

LMS Integration Challenges and Solutions

LMS Integration Challenges and Solutions

LMS Integration Challenges and Solutions

Webinars: Designing Effective Learning Experiences

Reflections on a Decade of Designing and Facilitating Interactive Webinars

NTEN Leading Change Summit #14lcs: Reflection

Trainer’s Notebook: Reflections on Designing and Delivering Training To Get Results

Using Peer Learning Strategies To Build A Network

The Networked NGO in Pakistan

Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for 300 People

ArtsLabSF: Reflections About Social Learning With Social Media

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