Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The event also included plenary speakers, including a provocative talk about data methods from Alexandra Samuels and cross-track sessions from traditional panels to unconference. The culmination of these two and half very intense days was an Idea Accelerator Lab. Do you have a preferred method?

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Reflection NTEN Change Exercise 127

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2013

Creativity: How do you keep creative and generate new ideas, both individually and working within an organization. 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.

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Tunisia Instructional Design Technique Literacy 98

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. Last week, I was an instructor for NTEN’s Technology Leadership Academy for a session on Nonprofit Technology ROI Methods. If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn.

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Design Effective Experiment Learning 109

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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Activities Active Activism Integration 107

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

For training where you are focusing on a skill, it allows for folks express their opinions (negative or positive) and not have get in the way of the instructional flow later on. Good participatory design and instructional design for that matter needs a closure exercise. There are usually two aspects of this.

Facilitation 102

Facilitation Technique Ideas Exercise 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2013

I’ve been working program and instructional design, facilitation of peer calls and workshops – in collaboration with the fantastic team at Spitfire.

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Reflection Action Learning Change 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Did it incorporate movement or other alternative methods? If you are a trainer or capacity builder, what are some creative ways you have infused movement into your training sessions? Keeping nonprofit audiences engaged during training can improve your outcomes. What was some of the best training you’ve ever experienced?

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Audience Training Train Activities 104

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

I answered yes to all, but more importantly I think these two methods helped me the most: Carve out time for reflection after each training and do an after-action review with yourself. Many of us do this and take content notes, but it is also great to take notes about instructional design and facilitation techniques.

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Participatory Facilitation Technique Asia 79

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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Reflection Training Train Design 98

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.

Professional 105

Professional Facilitation San Jose Journal 105

Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Instructional designers have been trying for years to come up with the perfect teachings for organizational entities, with learnings ranging from electronic, social, micro, mobile, instructor-led, and blended. Your great learning program could be even greater with just a little coaching. How can my organization utilize coaching?

Develop 63

Develop Program Learning Comparison 63

Gyrus

OCTOBER 4, 2016

We are not all instructional designers, and even when we are, there is a chance that on our own, we are unable to truly capture the requirements of the learners within our organization. Imagine a comprehensive approach to facilitating once a day training within a short time window.

Industry 74

Industry Learning Environment Training 74

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. We are working very closely with V.S. Chandrashekar, India Country Advisor and his talented team members, Ms.

India 103

India NGO Network Exercise 103

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.

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.

Learning Management 52

Learning Management System Learning Management 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

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. I plan to do that with facilitation techniques for design and innovation labs.

Instructional Design 50

Instructional Design San Antonio Facilitation North Carolina 50

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. Its acronym stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation.

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Evaluation Model Training Train 40

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. Its acronym stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation.

Evaluation 40

Evaluation Model Training Train 40

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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Evaluation Model Training Train 40

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.

Industry 65

Industry Learning Game Application 65

Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

These stakeholders could include subject matter experts, Learning and Development head from the HR team, instructional designers, LMS administrators, and the IT team. The pre-migration planning session’s aim is to collect information from all stakeholders on what they want and use it to choose the proper LMS.

Learning Environment 52

Learning Environment Test Instructional Design eLearning 52

Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

These stakeholders could include subject matter experts, Learning and Development head from the HR team, instructional designers, LMS administrators, and the IT team. The pre-migration planning session’s aim is to collect information from all stakeholders on what they want and use it to choose the proper LMS.

Learning Environment 52

Learning Environment Test Instructional Design eLearning 52

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.

Social Media 95

Social Media Reflection Learning Social 95

Forj

JUNE 28, 2017

In conferences, there’s definitely a sense of comradery: you’re an instructional designer? It seems that the attendees are open to the idea of experiential, rather than didactic, methods of eLearning. Let’s talk shop. Talk shop we did. I presented my session twice.

Education 31

Education San Diego Learning eLearning 31

Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

These stakeholders could include subject matter experts, Learning and Development head from the HR team, instructional designers, LMS administrators, and the IT team. The pre-migration planning session’s aim is to collect information from all stakeholders on what they want and use it to choose the proper LMS.

Test 52

Test Learning Environment Instructional Design eLearning 52

Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Employers find eLearning to be highly efficient from a time and money aspects in training their employees, whereas, for employees, it’s a convenient method to boost their knowledge and skill set. Since eLearning is an effective alternative to classroom training, it is becoming a more popular and preferred method among organizations.

eLearning 52

eLearning Guide Classroom Virtual Classroom 52

Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Employers find eLearning to be highly efficient from a time and money aspects in training their employees, whereas, for employees, it’s a convenient method to boost their knowledge and skill set. Since eLearning is an effective alternative to classroom training, it is becoming a more popular and preferred method among organizations.

eLearning 52

eLearning Guide Classroom Virtual Classroom 52

Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Employers find eLearning to be highly efficient from a time and money aspects in training their employees, whereas, for employees, it’s a convenient method to boost their knowledge and skill set. Since eLearning is an effective alternative to classroom training, it is becoming a more popular and preferred method among organizations.

eLearning 52

eLearning Guide Classroom Virtual Classroom 52

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.

eLearning 69

eLearning Consultant Guide Associations 69

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.

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Interaction Instructional Design Media Instruction 28

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods. I also taught networked leadership workshops as part of a larger team working with different social change networks.

Iowa 50

Iowa Facilitation Teach San Antonio 50

Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Below mentioned are a few signs indicating the need to invest in an LMS: You are unable to analyze the effectiveness of training : If your current training method is not helping you evaluate training effectiveness, an LMS can help. But traditional training methods consume much time and costs in the process.

Learning Management 52

Learning Management System Learning Management 52

Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Below mentioned are a few signs indicating the need to invest in an LMS: You are unable to analyze the effectiveness of training : If your current training method is not helping you evaluate training effectiveness, an LMS can help. But traditional training methods consume much time and costs in the process.

Learning Management 52

Learning Management System Learning Management 52

Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Below mentioned are a few signs indicating the need to invest in an LMS: You are unable to analyze the effectiveness of training : If your current training method is not helping you evaluate training effectiveness, an LMS can help. But traditional training methods consume much time and costs in the process.

Learning Management 52

Learning Management System Learning Management 52

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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Social Media Game Media Los Angeles 50

Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

First, as with Bitcoin, the distributed ledger method is an ideal way of tying credits to individual learners’ accounts, reducing the potential for counterfeiting credits. It’s still in the realm of custom content development – not something you can assign to your staff instructional designers – but it’s cheaper to do.

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Hype eLearning Model Badge 60