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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

The session will cover what to do before, during, and after leading an effective technology training and provide lots of practical tips that will help you design fun, interactive, and highly effective technology training workshops. Brilliance by Design: Creating Learning Experiences that Connect, Inspire, and Engage. Training Design'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. This includes documenting your session, reviewing your decks and exercises, analyzing your instructional design, and figuring out how to improve it.

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Evaluation Train Training Tips 131

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related. I am not always lucky to be teaching in a classroom that is designed as a flexible space to be molded into a learning environment by the instructor guided by the instructional design.

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Train Training Design Classroom 126

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Our interactive session at the Fall 2013 Communications Network Conference in New Orleans was a blend of content delivery and peer learning – a conversation about the value, different approaches and models, and best practices.

Design 95

Design Communication Program Build 95

Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Understanding the foundation of what makes instructional design so effective can go a long way in transitioning some of your organizational learnings over to a digital medium. When building eLearning it is necessary to consult people who teach and record their methodologies in making sure a message maintains its pertinence over time.

eLearning 52

eLearning Guide Classroom Virtual Classroom 52

Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Understanding the foundation of what makes instructional design so effective can go a long way in transitioning some of your organizational learnings over to a digital medium. When building eLearning it is necessary to consult people who teach and record their methodologies in making sure a message maintains its pertinence over time.

eLearning 52

eLearning Guide Classroom Virtual Classroom 52

Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Understanding the foundation of what makes instructional design so effective can go a long way in transitioning some of your organizational learnings over to a digital medium. When building eLearning it is necessary to consult people who teach and record their methodologies in making sure a message maintains its pertinence over time.

eLearning 52

eLearning Guide Classroom Virtual Classroom 52

Gyrus

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

If you don’t have or can’t afford an in-house instructional designer or a developer to design and develop the courses you need. That said, if your needs go beyond the ordinary, you probably need an e-learning authoring tool. Here is a simple checklist that can help you decide if you really need one.

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Authoring Tool eLearning Authoring Tools 52

Gyrus

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

If you don’t have or can’t afford an in-house instructional designer or a developer to design and develop the courses you need. That said, if your needs go beyond the ordinary, you probably need an e-learning authoring tool. Here is a simple checklist that can help you decide if you really need one.

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Authoring Tool eLearning Authoring Tools 52

Gyrus

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

If you don’t have or can’t afford an in-house instructional designer or a developer to design and develop the courses you need. That said, if your needs go beyond the ordinary, you probably need an e-learning authoring tool. Here is a simple checklist that can help you decide if you really need one.

Authoring Tool 52

Authoring Tool eLearning Authoring Tools 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

The next exercise was a small group exercise that modeled the first step a small nonprofit might do to build an audience persona. Breaking a large group into small groups for an exercise is also instructional design challenge. There was a lot of snapping. If you know me, sticky notes and marker were also involved.

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Learning Exercise San Francisco Instructional 88

Gyrus

MAY 5, 2016

LCMS- Learning Content Management System: A Software providing multi-user environment where authors, trainers, instructional designers, etc. SCORM – Sharable Content Reference Model: is a set of technical standards for e-learning software products. can create, edit, store, reuse, manage, and deliver e-learning content.

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LCMS API Instructional Design United States 45

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 !

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Facilitation Interaction Reflection Design 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Elearning space defines it as: “Use of intelligent data, learner-produced data, and analysis models to discover information and social connections, and to predict and advise on learning.” This gives me some more insight about how to make teaching this concept more accessible. Please leave a comment.

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Social Media Measure Analytics Learning 97

Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Artificial Intelligence and Predictive Modeling: As we’ve previously pointed out, it’s hard to define what AI is, and if you accept a wide definition of AI then it has been in use in eLearning for a while. We like that idea, and we agree that you need to provide many different pricing models. Peak of Inflated Expectations.

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Hype eLearning Model Badge 60

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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Leadership Develop Israel Exercise 50

Gyrus

OCTOBER 18, 2023

If you don’t have or can’t afford an in-house instructional designer or a developer to design and develop the courses you need. That said, if your needs go beyond the ordinary, you probably need an e-learning authoring tool. Here is a simple checklist that can help you decide if you really need one.

Authoring Tool 52

Authoring Tool eLearning Authoring Tools 52

Gyrus

OCTOBER 18, 2023

If you don’t have or can’t afford an in-house instructional designer or a developer to design and develop the courses you need. That said, if your needs go beyond the ordinary, you probably need an e-learning authoring tool. Here is a simple checklist that can help you decide if you really need one.

Authoring Tool 52

Authoring Tool eLearning Authoring Tools 52

Gyrus

OCTOBER 18, 2023

If you don’t have or can’t afford an in-house instructional designer or a developer to design and develop the courses you need. That said, if your needs go beyond the ordinary, you probably need an e-learning authoring tool. Here is a simple checklist that can help you decide if you really need one.

Authoring Tool 52

Authoring Tool eLearning Authoring Tools 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

It is humbling when you actually get feedback from the people you are designing something for. While I doubt that I will ever have to do design interfaces for a new car radio, the process was a stark reminder to me as an instructional designer to always get empathy from students in the course design process.

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Facilitation Method Technique Exercise 134

Gyrus

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Not too long ago, all the rage in our industry was shifting focus to the disruptive business model. Whenever there is a long-standing construct, it seems that someone comes out of nowhere and flips the model on its head. The Disruptive Approach to the Learning Industry. We see it all the time in this modern internet age.

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Industry Learning Environment Train 74

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. 2.) Exercise Task: Having the ability to break into small groups, provides an opportunity to use Peer Assist or After Action Review models. 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

MARCH 25, 2014

We framed the session as what to think about before, during, and after a training , using the “ADDIE” model as an organizing device. Each of us took on a different aspect of nonprofit technology design and incorporated some interactive exercises. How To Think Like An Instructional Designer.

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Train Training Reflection Resource 101

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. Since not every person in the cohort could travel to Washington, DC, we had virtual participants who joined us via phone and the webinar software.

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Reflection Action Learning Change 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

This includes leadership, social innovation, communications, branding, graphic facilitation, financial and funding models. Here are some thoughts about tweaking the instructional design: Game Length and Instructional Context. This gives an opportunity for the audience to share their story and their knowledge.

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Program Reflection Instructional Instruction 78

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Keeping nonprofit audiences engaged during training can improve your outcomes. Movement can also incorporate what you’re training on. The photo above is an interactive self-assessment exercise that I did at a recent training for United Ways of California CEOs at a retreat at Yosemite.

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Train Training Audience Active 104

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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Morocco Tunisia Reflection Conference 102

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. Iftikhar Soomro and Seema Zameer — all of whom understand capacity building programs.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 113

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

As with all the capacity building projects that I’ve designed, it is based on a framework and theory of change. The framework is a social media maturity of practice model called “Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly” Maturity of Social Media and is featured in my next book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.

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Network Build Learning Strategy 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

The second half used a communications style diagnostic called “ The Social Style Model ” which helps people learn how to improve their people skills by being able to understand their own communications style and those who are they are interacting with and then “flex.”

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Reflection Arts Exercise Facilitation 66

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. This post shares the content and I’ll share a post about the instructional design in a second post. It is no longer a linear journey up a ladder or pyramid.

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Fund Campaign Practice Giving 132

Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

Web Courseworks’ consulting services elevate this solution even further, as your team can access instructional design services, SME management, course pricing assistance, and more. In the meantime, explore the following additional resources to grow your learning business: eLearning Pricing Models: 5 Ways to Price Your Courses.

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eLearning Authoring Course Platform 36

Forj

JULY 8, 2021

This includes the creation of next-generation online learning courses and instructional design services. eLearning Pricing Models: 5 Ways to Price Your Courses. To learn more about how a consultant can elevate your eLearning assessments and more, explore Web Courseworks’ consulting services. The Complete Guide.

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eLearning Course Test Knowledge 69

Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Her blog has aided many individuals and organizations in the areas of action mapping, scenario-based learning models, and developing training that truly matters. Not only that, but he recently launched FindAnLMS, a fascinating comparison model that compares the various solutions on the market and also engages with these vendors.

eLearning 52

eLearning Linkedin Instructional Design Industry 52

Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Her blog has aided many individuals and organizations in the areas of action mapping, scenario-based learning models, and developing training that truly matters. Not only that, but he recently launched FindAnLMS, a fascinating comparison model that compares the various solutions on the market and also engages with these vendors.

eLearning 52

eLearning Linkedin Instructional Design Industry 52

Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Her blog has aided many individuals and organizations in the areas of action mapping, scenario-based learning models, and developing training that truly matters. Not only that, but he recently launched FindAnLMS, a fascinating comparison model that compares the various solutions on the market and also engages with these vendors.

eLearning 52

eLearning Linkedin Instructional Design Industry 52