Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

The curriculum was based on their “ Innovating for People ” design methods recipe book and “ taxonomy for innovation.” ” What is Human Centered Design? Is it only used by people with artistic talents and graphic design skills? Anyone can be a designer!

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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 16, 2015

The fun part of the instructional design is selecting good assessments, creating applied “homework” assignments where emerging leaders get to practice their skills at work, and providing guides for their mentors to support the emerging leaders. Service: the ability to understand and meet the needs of people you work with.

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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. Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you enjoy and are great at doing? Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you want to improve or work on? Learning Begins with Igniting Curiosity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

As a trainer and subject matter expert, I fight a big battle when designing a workshop. 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.

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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. I’ve used these techniques myself and been in many other sessions where facilitators used design-thinking techniques.

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

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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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Channel Social Media Wiki Instruction 87

The Nerdy NonProfit

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

It can reach a larger number of people in a shorter amount of time than in-person training. You design courses that specifically target what the learner needs. Do staff members need to develop a skill, such as the ability to recognize and avoid common grammar mistakes? By Guest Contributor, Amy Morrisey , Artisan E-Learning.

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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. Learning Networks Are Built With People and Reciprocity. We are working very closely with V.S.

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Forj

DECEMBER 6, 2017

The answer may seem obvious, but that’s not readily apparent in the eLearning we design. In the past, companies needed people who could crunch the numbers with a calculator to get the right answer or who had memorized how to assemble parts. Instead, there is demand for what have been called 21 st century skills. Communication.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

This peer learning exchange is designed to help state-based groups to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children. Over the past year, participants have been getting comfortable with social media skills, being strategic, making them a habit, and first steps with measurements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

PopTech is an amazing blend of people, ideas, and projects. I learned a lot about how to begin to adapt the game process for people with a program orientation. Here are some thoughts about tweaking the instructional design: Game Length and Instructional Context. Social Media Skepticism is Healthy.

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Program Reflection Social Media Instruction 78

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Having trained nonprofits on every continent of the world (except Antarctica), I had a great laboratory to develop my instructional design and delivery skills. One of the biggest challenges is keeping nonprofits engaged. It totally changed the atmosphere of the room, and people were ready to learn.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The sub-Saharan region has the most children and youth out of school, with about 98 million children and young people excluded from education, per this report. The people backing us are not just saying, ‘this is money, go and invest.’ This is also what’s unique about this program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Evaluate your content, facilitation, and logistical skills against participant evaluations. Many of us do this and take content notes, but it is also great to take notes about instructional design and facilitation techniques. As the facilitator, you have give clear instructions to people and keep time.

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Participatory Facilitation Technique Exercise 79

Forj

DECEMBER 11, 2017

The answer may seem obvious, but that’s not readily apparent in the eLearning we design. In the past, companies needed people who could crunch the numbers with a calculator to get the right answer or who had memorized how to assemble parts. Instead, there is demand for what have been called 21 st century skills. Communication.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

I am particularly grateful to Cindy Leonard who compiled and consolidated our slides based on the design. Her photoshop skills were used in service of the star wars theme, including adding a red hat to Yoda. How To Think Like An Instructional Designer. . — Rachel Hassinger (@solidarity4just) March 15, 2014.

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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. Who are the people you want to reach? Social Strategies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

The first session focused on self-awareness skills. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

However, participants had to do this with people shaped sticky notes and a speech bubble. The participants were at mixed levels of skills and experience and organizations ranged from community/grassroots organizations to larger institutions. Then it was time for a simple exercise. Write a target audience definition.

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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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Gyrus

JULY 19, 2016

Microlearning is a brief (less than 5 minute) learning component with a focus on a very particular learning object (specifically a skill, behavior, or compliance piece). Microlearning is not designed to be the end all be all form of learning that people may wish for it to be. Why aren’t we doing this already?

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eLearning Learning Instructional Design Mobile Learning 60

Forj

JANUARY 23, 2018

Introducing people to new instructional design concepts is very important, but providing people with the tools and skills necessary to bring those ideas to life is just as important.

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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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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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Learning Management System Learning Management 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

In the US, I gave workshops at nonprofit conferences in Iowa, San Antonio, Iowa, Tahoe, Palm Beach, Miami, and San Francisco on networked leadership skills. I was honored to lead a featured season at the United Way Leadership Conference on Networked Leadership and teach many workshops networked leadership skills.

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Gyrus

JULY 28, 2016

But now, everything that is required for proper learning and accreditation is right there at your fingertips, just a few screen clicks away from impacting organizational wisdom, verifying departmentalized compliance, and actually engaging these hard to reach people. Evolution of the Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2015

It has been a long time since I’ve attended a conference where great content and instructional design were so well integrated. Andrew asked them about their work and what are the most important skills data scientists who work with nonprofits should have? Thanks @kanter #DoGoodData2015 #data pic.twitter.com/PNh7kk5igU.

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DNL OmniMedia

JULY 14, 2021

Focus on the activities they will complete and the skills they need to complete them. Use microlearning courses to highlight key skills. An e-learning content development expert will bring knowledge of both instructional design and e-learning best practices to the table, creating courses that help your learners do their jobs better.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

Now, within an organization, employees improve their capabilities by learning new skills. Designing an evaluation plan The evaluation plan is a document that describes the: Goals Objectives Procedures for evaluating the training. Its acronym stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

Now, within an organization, employees improve their capabilities by learning new skills. Designing an evaluation plan The evaluation plan is a document that describes the: Goals Objectives Procedures for evaluating the training. Its acronym stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

Now, within an organization, employees improve their capabilities by learning new skills. Designing an evaluation plan The evaluation plan is a document that describes the: Goals Objectives Procedures for evaluating the training. Its acronym stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation.

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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. You have to ask, how is polling the audience and seeing the aggregate results helping people learn? It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2016

Bersin by Deloitte’s infographic “ Meet the Modern Learner ” is an excellent summary of the challenges facing trainers who need to design and deliver professional development for nonprofit professionals. Instructional design is knowing how to organize your content and shape exercises based on brain and learning research.

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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. Want to discover more about eLearning?

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