Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

The sessions focused on how to combine various techniques together to achieve a specific goal and while there was a lot of “ facilitating with sticky notes ,” the overall process was larger than that. Here’s a some of what I learned about facilitating innovation and train the trainers design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I’m honored to be involved with the instructional design and delivery of two workshops specifically for nonprofits. ” The thesis: For nonprofit organizations there are two key processes that lead to social change: To become networked, and to use measurement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

It is always important to look at the challenges of adoption of improving organizational processes or individual skills, especially if they are new. It should always accompany the tips and how tos. This blog post shares some insights about those two somewhat disconnected ideas. The Five Stages of Social Media Measurement Love.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

What makes for a good team experience is a good on-boarding process. Documenter: Using a digital camera, the documenter should capture photos of the process – the set up, the activity, and the products from the activity. I think about the KWL process. Pivots can make the difference between a successful session and disaster.

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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. If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn. This post summarizes some learning research and offers some tips for delivering effective webinars. It was delivered in two sessions.

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The Nerdy NonProfit

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

You design courses that specifically target what the learner needs. Here is a process to help you do so: Define what the learner needs to change. That said, while the course should be relevant and contextualized—this doesn’t mean that you should abandon your nonprofit’s brand identity in the process. It’s a balancing act!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

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. Peter Durand did the graphic recording (read his blog for more information about the process - AlphaChimp Studio).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Good participatory design and instructional design for that matter needs a closure exercise. There are usually two aspects of this. The first is on a practice level – what should happen next? What commitment are we saying to everyone that we will make, should make, or the host should know.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

It helps people process complex thoughts. A simple “who else has an idea?” ” - Intentional Silence: Leaving space for quiet, an essential facilitation skill. It is basically a pause. Writing people’s ideas on a flip chart or white board helps with the group memory and knowledge capture.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Find out how some nonprofits are making the case to foundations that funding online outreach is a great investment, and are growing their base of online donors in the process. Before this, he was an Instructional Designer and Editor at Element K, a provider of learning solutions for businesses and nonprofits.

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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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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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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

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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Candid

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

You can also learn about how Candid plans to leverage AI to enhance data organization, streamline search processes, and facilitate intelligent funding connections. Perhaps the question we should be asking instead is: How can we use these tools to create efficiencies and enhance our work? Read more about AI on Candid insights here.

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sgEngage

APRIL 25, 2022

Understanding the E-Learning Content Development Process . From your key stakeholders, to your internal review teams, to the e-learning content development partner itself—multiple hands are handling this project and providing input at every single step in this process. . Course development generally involves the following steps: .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

We used to help us design the program, determine process outcomes, and help us evaluate participant’s progress. ” This generated useful tips and suggestions on how to manage an editorial calendar and content strategy process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

” That is you step aside from the content delivery and shine a light into the process, including what the trainer is thinking as they are facilitating. How To Think Like An Instructional Designer. Think of “House of Cards” when Francis turns to the camera and shares the dialogue inside his mind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Designing training that is interactive, that goes beyond presenting takes upfront planning. I always create a lesson plan, a more detailed agenda, that includes topics, bullet points, timings, processes, and materials, even if I am the only one facilitating the class. I use this design checklist to identify interactive exercises.

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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. 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

MARCH 8, 2019

Breaking a large group into small groups for an exercise is also instructional design challenge. As, incorporating secondary research is part of the process. The next facilitation challenge was to break them into small groups to work on the personas using a poster-sized version of the persona worksheet.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

Understanding the foundation of what makes the instructional design so effective, can go a long way in transitioning some of your organizational learnings over to a digital medium. When creating eLearnings it is best to keep into consideration the engagement of the users throughout the whole process. Adaptability.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Companies like Uber, Airbnb, and Google (via a variety of enterprises) continue to break down the walls and establish new and innovative processes for consumers to integrate into their daily lives. There is definitely more to come in the learning industry; the current focus is to make the end to end process feel more accessible.

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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. I’ve enjoyed prepping for this session because it has forced me to reflect on my own process and dig into the why s of what I’m doing.

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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

MAY 5, 2016

HRMS- Human Resource Management System : A combination of systems and processes that connects human resource management and information technology through HR software. LCMS- Learning Content Management System: A Software providing multi-user environment where authors, trainers, instructional designers, etc.

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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. Turn this into a weekly tradition.

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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. Exercise #1: Herding Sheep.

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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.

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Gyrus

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

However, the process of selecting, implementing, and integrating an LMS is not without its challenges. In both educational and corporate settings, LMS integration helps streamline learning processes, enhance collaboration, and make tracking progress easier. API utilization enables seamless communication and data exchange.

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Gyrus

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

However, the process of selecting, implementing, and integrating an LMS is not without its challenges. In both educational and corporate settings, LMS integration helps streamline learning processes, enhance collaboration, and make tracking progress easier. API utilization enables seamless communication and data exchange.

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Integration Challenge Issue Learning Management 52

Gyrus

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

However, the process of selecting, implementing, and integrating an LMS is not without its challenges. In both educational and corporate settings, LMS integration helps streamline learning processes, enhance collaboration, and make tracking progress easier. API utilization enables seamless communication and data exchange.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

This step helps us understand what level of support your team will need along the process. 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. Environmental Scan.

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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.

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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.

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Gyrus

JULY 19, 2016

Are you yourself as an instructional designer capable of ripping out the fluff and unnecessary components in order to optimize the microlearning? In order to address the need for a microlearning, refer to the following: As referenced throughout this post, one must evaluate the learning needs they wish to address with the microlearning.

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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. I typically draw a vertical line down my notebook page, and label each column “Content” and “Instructional Process” to capture both types of notes.

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