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. 2. Design for Organizational Reluctance. organizational change, and technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

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. How do you inspire people to be open to learning during a session? Then we opened up for discussion. Learning Begins with Igniting Curiosity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Here are some thoughts about tweaking the instructional design: Game Length and Instructional Context. She is a lawyer, activist and blogger , and the co-founder and executive director of Ushahidi, a free, open source, Web mobile-based platform capable of crowd-sourcing, sharing and mapping information in near real time. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

How To Think Like An Instructional Designer. The Art of Good Openings and Closings. It also gave me a good opportunity to take stock and pull together a selection of posts on how to do effective technology training: 6 Books for Nonprofit Trainers. 6 Tips for Evaluating Your Training Session. The Feng Shui of Good Teaching.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

I’m preparing for a webinar and with any training I begin the instructional design with surveying participants to understand their level, learning goals, and attitudes about the subject matter. Or just keep your ears open. “I kissed a squirrel & I liked it” #ReplaceGirlWithSquirrelInASong.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

When you have worked in a field a long time (for me it has been over 3 decades), you have to keep an open mind about remembering and reflecting on what you have heard before — looking at as if it was new. Instructional Design and Facilitation: I love teaching and exploring different ways help nonprofit professionals learn.

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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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Gyrus

OCTOBER 4, 2016

It seems that Training personnel are always focused on new and innovative teachings, and designers are obsessed with developing an open platform that can accommodate all these visionary changes that we as learning professionals would wish to implement.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Many of us do this and take content notes, but it is also great to take notes about instructional design and facilitation techniques. If you are new to participatory facilitation techniques, use the Spectagram as an opener and use it to better understand skill levels in the room. Next, try provocative statements.

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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. 7: Say thank you in creative ways.

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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. Given the numbers, it seems like most of the people fall into group 2 and having people in group 1 in the room opens the door for a perspective from a peer. Comfort Levels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Claire Rice, from Theatre Bay Area, was live blogging the whole day and captured their opening remarks. Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. Both organizations have demonstrated leadership in embracing social media. Put Your Learners on the Stage and Hand Them the Mic!

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 30, 2020

In today’s interview with sgENGAGE Podcast veteran and Blackbaud University instructional designer Jocelyn Wright, you’ll learn more about why a welcome series is important, why they are valuable even in an email overload world, and what the best practices are for developing an email welcome series.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

My inspiration for the instructional design was learning that there was a game show in the 1980s called “ The Body Language Game.” Amiable Style people show their emotions openly and prefer to ask questions rather than give orders. Relationships, feelings and personal security are important to Amiable Style people.

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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. It makes learning more open and encourages employees to overcome their hesitations.

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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. It makes learning more open and encourages employees to overcome their hesitations.

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Trend Learning Develop 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. It makes learning more open and encourages employees to overcome their hesitations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

The sitting brain is really disengaged. Which brain do you think is more open to learning, retaining, and applying the content during a training? I’ve incorporated movement into openings and closers. It might include standing or walking.

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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. She had the 30 participants walk around the room while she urged us to open up and think about what we wanted to get out of the day. In other words, to what end?

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Gyrus

JULY 26, 2016

Walking the floor at an ATD conference is a real eye opener as to what the current market possibilities are. That being said, the platforms in which these games are being built are constantly evolving, giving designers better graphical capabilities, smoother operations, and in general more robust offerings. Gamification. Microlearning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

6: Ask clarifying, open-ended questions when the other person pauses. ” Drawing People Out : After you listen and paraphrase, you ask open-ended questions to draw people out. I’ve paraphrased and summarized these below: 1: Face the speaker and maintain eye contact. 2: Be present, practice mindful listening to the other person.

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

Creating a Positive and Inclusive Online Environment Instructors can create a positive and inclusive atmosphere by fostering respect, diversity, and open-mindedness. It requires consistent effort, creative instructional design, and regular communication.

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

Creating a Positive and Inclusive Online Environment Instructors can create a positive and inclusive atmosphere by fostering respect, diversity, and open-mindedness. It requires consistent effort, creative instructional design, and regular communication.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

Or, individuals in a business course could complete an open-ended case study-based assessment to test how well they can apply the information presented, effectively testing skills acquired. Open-Ended Questions. Open-ended assessments are designed to have a learner share everything that they know about a specific topic.

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

Creating a Positive and Inclusive Online Environment Instructors can create a positive and inclusive atmosphere by fostering respect, diversity, and open-mindedness. It requires consistent effort, creative instructional design, and regular communication.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

We tested five versions of the prompt sheets--some with instructions focused to the subject of the exhibition (artists' takes on nature), others with more open-ended instructions designed to encourage a broader range of responses.

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

When a learner opens the course and sees, right off the bat, that it was created intentionally for their viewing and benefit, they’ll be more likely to prioritize it in their busy schedule. Creative, engaging design decisions. Amy started with Artisan as a contract writer/instructional designer. It’s okay to show that.

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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. H5P Source H5P is an online e-learning authoring tool that is open-source and free to use. Here is a simple checklist that can help you decide if you really need one. out of 5 3.Pros

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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. H5P Source H5P is an online e-learning authoring tool that is open-source and free to use. Here is a simple checklist that can help you decide if you really need one. out of 5 3.Pros

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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. H5P Source H5P is an online e-learning authoring tool that is open-source and free to use. Here is a simple checklist that can help you decide if you really need one. out of 5 3.Pros

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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. Both educators and learners use it to manage and distribute knowledge effectively. The LMS meaning in education is profound.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

This could mean a fully open-source environment, a desktop environment where only one person can edit the course at a time, or a cloud-based environment for collaborative authoring. Will the course authoring software integrate directly with your LMS or will you need to figure out a different solution?

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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. The following are eight eye-opening tips; see if they sound familiar.

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

For each of the topics we cover in the class, students are assigned reading and I do a brief presentation of examples, frameworks and open it up for discussion. This combination of advanced planning and evaluation helps one continuously improve their instructional design. Here’s how they combined the videos.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

There are other projects underway to solve it, including the MedBiquitous Activity Report standard and (in a sense) the Mozilla Open Badges project. When we open that can of worms, we’ll know we’ve reached the trough of disillusionment. It’s a great attractor for learning experiences at conferences and multi-day live courses.

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