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. His research shows that professional development learning experiences need to be as interactive as possible to boost retention. If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn. It was delivered in two sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

I was honored to be involved with the instructional design and delivery of two workshops specifically for nonprofits. Given that this was two and half hour workshop at the end of a long day at SXSW, I put to use all the interactive training techniques that I have been teaching nonprofit trainers around the world.

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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. Don’t just talk at them, interact! Don’t leave them hanging.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. Next, of course, is diving into the design task of identifying goals and framing for the session and specific roles. The scribe should only interact with the lead facilitator, not the group.

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The Nerdy NonProfit

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

From the interactive elements you can include, the scenarios you can walk-through…e-learning has evolved. Valerie isn’t going to appreciate interactive games if they don’t give her actionable, valuable tips. Amy started with Artisan as a contract writer/instructional designer. We can’t blame her there!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Each of us took on a different aspect of nonprofit technology design and incorporated some interactive exercises. It is really hard to maintain a balance of interaction and content delivery when you have 90 minutes and four people with subject-matter expertise. How To Think Like An Instructional Designer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

I came across the term “Learning Analytics” in an NPR story about the effectiveness of college lectures and ways to make learning more interactive. There are different definitions. Learning Analytics. This gives me some more insight about how to make teaching this concept more accessible. Please leave a comment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

The conference in Morocco was a “tri-lingual event” and was translated into French, English, and Arabic, although the content and instructional design were identical to the event in Jordan. This blog post is a summary of reflections about the instructional design and how NGOs in these countries are becoming Networked NGOs.

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

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2013

What are you focusing on for 2013?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As a long-time trainer, professor, and teacher, I feel strongly that interactive learning activities – going beyond the death by Powerpoint Lecture – is the key to retention and application for participants. Your room set up can support your instructional activities that engage participants or get in the way.

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Forj

AUGUST 1, 2017

Learners are engaged with the media that surrounds them, and it wouldn’t hurt instructional designers to take a few tips on how to create engaging content. Luckily for instructional designers, the field seems to be in step with the implementation of branching scenarios in other sorts of media. You’re partially right.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

Learning Objectives: Understand why it is important to incorporate social media tools in your instructional practice for trainings. How to think like a social instructional designer. I also try to identify a framework that will help me design the content. Audience Research. Materials and Lesson Plan Development.

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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. 4. Design To Build A Community of Practice. organizational change, and technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

Before I get to the topic of using posters to make your workshops or meeting more interactive (and fun), I want to wish you a Happy International Women’s Day! To make the workshop interactive, I spent a brief amount of time presenting the what, why, how, and examples of target audiences. Photo by Equal Rights Advocates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

I suspect the same sorts of things happen when you are doing a powerpoint monologue or long lecture without any movement, interaction, or holding all questions until the end. This is not learning – and I dare say that it isn’t healthy for folks either to be sitting so long.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

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? What: The art of social instructional design. How: 6 Tools and Tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Instructional Design Notes. I facilitated a session in the afternoon which was designed for peer interaction given the topic. ” I love these interactive sessions because the questions always give me great ideas for blog posts – so stay tuned. Being Data Informed.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

AI-Powered Design and Development The impact of artificial intelligence in training has been profound in the design and development field. are now on their way to transforming how learning experiences and instructional designs are curated and created with AI.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

AI-Powered Design and Development The impact of artificial intelligence in training has been profound in the design and development field. are now on their way to transforming how learning experiences and instructional designs are curated and created with AI.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

AI-Powered Design and Development The impact of artificial intelligence in training has been profound in the design and development field. are now on their way to transforming how learning experiences and instructional designs are curated and created with AI.

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Develop Impact Instructional Design Learning 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

intense days of meetings. The design incorporate many interactive learning techniques to ensure that participants were actively learning and sharing, and not falling asleep!

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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.

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sgEngage

APRIL 25, 2022

The partner creates a prototype of the course to illustrate key design elements and the overall direction of the course. . Details such as interactive elements, assessments, and visual elements are included. . Build interactive and engaging learning elements, such as video, games, simulations and scenarios, and assessments. .

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Gyrus

JULY 14, 2016

It can dual in purpose as a means to view landmarks that have been long forgotten, as well as force social interaction that hadn’t previously existed. I myself have been charmed by the application and find myself turning it on at night time just to see what’s around me as I’m sitting on the couch.

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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.

Learning Management 52

Learning Management System Learning Management 52

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 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.

Trend 52

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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Trend Develop Learning Mobile Learning 52

Gyrus

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Providing situations where the complete picture of a role is thought out from the first interaction to some of the most difficult interactions an employee may face. Instead of something that has been almost entirely compliance driven, more and more efforts are being placed on rounding out the entire offering.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I have a chance to reflect now on the data I've collected and think about the instructional design. This is a short workshop and will be mostly delivered as an interactive lecture/demo style - with audience interaction. " This reminded of the Thiagi's Interactive Lecture techniques. Comfort Levels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2016

So, this trip was a gift in terms of getting new ideas for instructional design. When you are a trainer, you are a designer and facilitator of learning experiences. As a participant, you can also learn a lot by observing and reverse engineering the instructional design.

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DNL OmniMedia

JULY 14, 2021

Elevated Engagement and Interactivity: At Artisan, we worked with the American Red Cross to transform a less-than-engaging PowerPoint into a self-paced e-learning course. Include interactive elements to make courses engaging. Amy started with Artisan as a contract writer/instructional designer. And last, but not least?

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

Enhanced Student Engagement and Participation Interaction is at the core of building a sense of community. The level of interaction can be increased by fostering social connections among students, encouraging them to take an active part in class discussions, and viewing them as part of a group instead of individuals.

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