Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

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. That is hard to do but a good professional skill in many other contexts than training.

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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. Good participatory design and instructional design for that matter needs a closure exercise. There are usually two aspects of this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I got an email from hosts Chris Uschan and Tony Veroeven who shared some numbers, "We had 190 attend and ask 140 questions in a back channel that looked like Clark Griswald 's House at Christmas!". I covered these three topics: Why: Social media integrated into instruction - Pass or Fail? What: The art of social instructional design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

That’s hard if deadlines are looming, but essential to have a session to explore questions such as: What is your facilitation style and philosophy? 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?

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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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The Nerdy NonProfit

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

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? For example, rather than showcasing a North American hospital, it would be more valuable to share images of field hospitals in the designated location.

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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

Perhaps the question we should be asking instead is: How can we use these tools to create efficiencies and enhance our work? Participation in the arts also develops essential life skills such as communication, teamwork, and discipline. Will I be replaced by ChatGPT? 2013; Upitis et al.,

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Forj

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Instead, there is demand for what have been called 21 st century skills. For example, instructional designers need to work with programmers, graphic artists, subject matter experts, and data scientists to develop effective eLearning curricula. Our eLearning curricula should promote these 21 st century skills. Creativity.

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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. The room setup fought with our design, but we managed to make it work. How To Think Like An Instructional Designer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Recently, a colleague asked me a wonderful question: How did you learn to become a good facilitator and trainer? Evaluate your content, facilitation, and logistical skills against participant evaluations. Evaluate your content, facilitation, and logistical skills against participant evaluations.

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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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Forj

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Instead, there is demand for what have been called 21 st century skills. For example, instructional designers need to work with programmers, graphic artists, subject matter experts, and data scientists to develop effective eLearning curricula. Our eLearning curricula should promote these 21 st century skills. Creativity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

I suspect the same sorts of things happen when you are doing a powerpoint monologue or long lecture without any movement, interaction, or holding all questions until the end. This is not learning – and I dare say that it isn’t healthy for folks either to be sitting so long.

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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

MARCH 18, 2024

AI-powered LMS and LXPs (Learning Experience Platforms) deliver intuitive user experiences with intelligent content recommendations, facilitate content discovery, benchmark skills, and provide clear insights on how to improve learning outcomes. Instructional designers can obtain draft ideas or visuals that can be easily edited using AI tools.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

AI-powered LMS and LXPs (Learning Experience Platforms) deliver intuitive user experiences with intelligent content recommendations, facilitate content discovery, benchmark skills, and provide clear insights on how to improve learning outcomes. Instructional designers can obtain draft ideas or visuals that can be easily edited using AI tools.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

AI-powered LMS and LXPs (Learning Experience Platforms) deliver intuitive user experiences with intelligent content recommendations, facilitate content discovery, benchmark skills, and provide clear insights on how to improve learning outcomes. Instructional designers can obtain draft ideas or visuals that can be easily edited using AI tools.

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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

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. How do you define failure for our organization or program?

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

We’re going to cover types of eLearning assessments through the following questions: What is an eLearning assessment? These exercises can measure knowledge gained, skills learned, or even attitudes or mindsets changed. Multiple-choice assessments are those that pose a question with three to five accompanying responses.

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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). Users have to watch it, then they have to answer some questions, then they have to click a couple things. Can a student master the content in a single sitting?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Jennifer made use of an app called “ Answer Qwik ” that allows participants to answer polling questions on their mobile phones and have the aggregate results shown on the screen. see above) It is designed to be used in face-to-face workshops and conferences. In other words, to what end?

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

An eLearning consultant can help you answer this question and more. Through that work, we’ve seen the common questions that associations face when it comes to hiring an eLearning consultant— and now, we’re here to answer them: What is an eLearning consultant? That’s great! But, where do you begin? What does a learning consultant do?

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

Now, within an organization, employees improve their capabilities by learning new skills. ADDIE Model The ADDIE model is a systematic approach to instructional design and development that can be used in training programs. 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. ADDIE Model The ADDIE model is a systematic approach to instructional design and development that can be used in training programs. 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. ADDIE Model The ADDIE model is a systematic approach to instructional design and development that can be used in training programs. Its acronym stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation.

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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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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?

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

These are all questions that can be answered, concisely, and immediately within an LMS platform. Determine your objectives in advance Ask yourself this set of questions before choosing an LMS: What are your development objectives? What skill-sets are required? Who needs additional learning?

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

These are all questions that can be answered, concisely, and immediately within an LMS platform. Determine your objectives in advance Ask yourself this set of questions before choosing an LMS: What are your development objectives? What skill-sets are required? Who needs additional learning?

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

These are all questions that can be answered, concisely, and immediately within an LMS platform. Determine your objectives in advance Ask yourself this set of questions before choosing an LMS: What are your development objectives? What skill-sets are required? Who needs additional learning?

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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. There are many more factors and questions to consider while buying an eLearning Content. Want to discover more about eLearning?

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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. There are many more factors and questions to consider while buying an eLearning Content. Want to discover more about eLearning?

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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. There are many more factors and questions to consider while buying an eLearning Content. Want to discover more about eLearning?

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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. Learn how the right LMS can drive engagement, skill development, and long-term success for your business.

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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. Some of the stand-out features of Adobe Captivate include the ability to: Use ready-to-go slides for common compliance and soft skill topics.

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