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NTEN Is Hiring an Educational Program Manager

NTEN

Flickr photo by leighblackall By the end of 2011, NTEN will have produced over 100 educational webinars and 3 in-person local events, with many more in 2012. The NTC is just 146 days away. NTEN Programs are growing and so is the Program Team to support it. So, I'm thrilled to announce a job opening for NTEN’s Educational Program Manager.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Designing and delivering a training to a nonprofit audience is not about extreme content delivery or putting together a PowerPoint and answering questions. If you want to get results, you need to think about instructional design and learning theory. And, there is no shortage of learning theories and research.

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QuickBooks Keeps Kantorei Singing

Tech Soup

Located in northern Illinois, this nonsectarian organization welcomes participants from all walks of life regardless of background, creed, socioeconomic status, or prior skill. The participants learn the foundations of choir singing, such as posture and breathing, vocal technique, and tone.

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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

ECB involves a series of steps taken by an evaluator (internal or external) to build evaluative knowledge and skills, create a culture of continuous learning and accountability, and make resources readily available. Answer questions like: Did participants’ attitudes, knowledge and skills change? Implement ECB strategies.

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

Museum 2.0

Sometimes we purposefully bridge distinct groups as well such as middle-aged women from local knitting groups with young college students interested in street art to yarn bomb our stairwell for Radical Craft Night. We are constantly looking for new meaningful opportunities to bridge groups and individuals in our programs.

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Research directions Open Phil wants to fund in technical AI safety

The AI Alignment Forum

Example projects: Evaluate existing unlearning and skill-pruning methods that were not evaluated in Deeb and Roger nor in ucki et al. e.g. work that studies the mechanisms behind LLMs ability to learn new skills, comprehend language, or parse images. and could be useful for testing this theorys predictions. and Guo et al.