Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2013

The case studies and insights will be shared on this blog over the coming months. What are you focusing on for 2013?

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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. This information was used to create some cards that participants could pick up and review.

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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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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

According to a statement shared by the firm, the accelerator program will support and amplify the impact of edtech startups across Africa, as well as support founders offering tech solutions that will address learning innovation in an educational sector riddled with a plethora of issues.

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

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Stay tuned for more information in 2017, but I will be very busy writing facilitator process guides based on my decades of experience as a trainer and sharing that on this blog. 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

APRIL 4, 2010

Participants design and launch a social media experiment that helps them improve their practice and share learning with one another. The last face-to-face session, in fact, is participants sharing the results of their experiments. Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

It is about making it possible for participants to capture, share, and reflect on what they have learned. I wrote many posts on instructional design for nonprofit training , including this wrap up post from our NTEN NTC session on teaching and learning for nonprofits.

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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 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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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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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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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. This year I facilitated several labs, including one for the Brainerd Foundation to rethink 21 st Century Advocacy.

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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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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. Online learning is even said to enhance information retention by 25% to 60%.

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

About 70% of students prefer online learning over traditional classroom methods. When students feel connected to their peers and instructors, they are more likely to contribute to discussions, ask questions, and share their insights. Online learning is even said to enhance information retention by 25% to 60%.

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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. When students feel connected to their peers and instructors, they are more likely to contribute to discussions, ask questions, and share their insights.

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Gyrus

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

This term represents a software platform designed to facilitate educational processes. It offers a framework that supports instructional design and delivers learning content to a broad audience. It simplifies the organization of material and enhances the learning experience by incorporating various teaching methods.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

Of the various assessment methods in this list, group collaboration with feedback is easily the least quantitative method. Open-ended assessments are designed to have a learner share everything that they know about a specific topic. They can then use that feedback to continue expanding their knowledge.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

For example, as the level of complexity of your courses increases– whether due to the intricacy of the course topic, the various multimedia and engagement methods you want to include, or the elaborate nature of the authoring software you’ve chosen– the harder it will be for members of your team to complete the project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

Balancing Learning Through Content Delivery and Sharing Experience. 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.).

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

Automated Administration and Tracking Besides, a good LMS facilitates automated administration by allowing organizations to accurately track learner progress and identify the best training method for each learner. Compared to traditional methods, LMSs contribute to reducing the time and expense needed for compliance audits.

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

Automated Administration and Tracking Besides, a good LMS facilitates automated administration by allowing organizations to accurately track learner progress and identify the best training method for each learner. Compared to traditional methods, LMSs contribute to reducing the time and expense needed for compliance audits.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Why Follow the eLearning Experts Whether it is manufacturing, strategy, product development, or simple productivity hacks, LinkedIn houses top eLearning experts who share their years of experience and industry insight on the platform. Viren holds a patent for Systems and Methods for Distribution of Sales Leads.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Why Follow the eLearning Experts Whether it is manufacturing, strategy, product development, or simple productivity hacks, LinkedIn houses top eLearning experts who share their years of experience and industry insight on the platform. Viren holds a patent for Systems and Methods for Distribution of Sales Leads.

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eLearning Linkedin Instructional Design Industry 52

Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Why Follow the eLearning Experts Whether it is manufacturing, strategy, product development, or simple productivity hacks, LinkedIn houses top eLearning experts who share their years of experience and industry insight on the platform. Viren holds a patent for Systems and Methods for Distribution of Sales Leads.

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eLearning Linkedin Instructional Design Industry 52

Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

Automated Administration and Tracking Besides, a good LMS facilitates automated administration by allowing organizations to accurately track learner progress and identify the best training method for each learner. Compared to traditional methods, LMSs contribute to reducing the time and expense needed for compliance audits.

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