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

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Given the topic was measurement, I couldn’t help but go a little meta and play with incorporating learning analytics into the instruction. This blog post shares some insights about those two somewhat disconnected ideas. The Five Stages of Social Media Measurement Love. Please leave a comment.

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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. This would require clear instructions on the outcome of the peer coaching and to provide some instructions on the right balance between listening and telling. It was delivered in two sessions.

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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. Pivots can make the difference between a successful session and disaster.

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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

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. All of the instruction is aligned to a network frame. . Social Media Strategy As Design Process.

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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

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

AUGUST 20, 2014

Here’s just a few: Instructional. It helps people process complex thoughts. I like to avoid being stuck in the same techniques and am always interested in expanding my toolkit. That’s why I love looking and testing different methods. Peer Learning / Coaching. Reflective Practice. Innovation / Generating New Ideas.

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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

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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Train Training Reflection Resource 101

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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Learning Impact Develop Instructional Design 52

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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Learning Impact Develop Instructional Design 52

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. My Three Themes: .

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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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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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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

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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Participatory Facilitation Technique Exercise 79

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. My teaching style has been influenced by constructivism in short - less "sage on the stage" and "more guide on the side" and that learners should be actively involved in their learning process. Put Your Learners on the Stage and Hand Them the Mic!

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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

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. Be sure not to stop there, coaching involves so much more than instruction towards a positive outcome. Reinforcement.

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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

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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Facilitation Instructional Design Teach Technique 50

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.

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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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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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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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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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Forj

JUNE 28, 2017

In conferences, there’s definitely a sense of comradery: you’re an instructional designer? This was my first time attending the conference, but I still got that familiar feeling of excitement from being around colleagues in my field. 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

JANUARY 4, 2016

In addition to getting the satisfaction of checking off items completed, I also reflect on how I could improve or streamline my process. I write down stuff I won’t do, a “no thanks” list. Year in Review. I strapped on a Fitbit and started walking 15,000 steps a day. I walked away 40 pounds, but something else happened.

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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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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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