
Integrates adult learning theory, instructional design, and nonprofit program design to develop a client-focused educational program plan using project-based, Bloom's taxonomy, and Addae perspectives.
Describe adult learner characteristics and assess client needs and capabilities using four approaches: external needs, asset-based, subjective assessments, and tools like shape profile and ONET.
Design education to support nonprofit program outcomes by building a logic model and theory of change that connect learning outcomes to mission, inputs, activities, and outputs.
Learn how to assess external curriculum and outside learning resources versus in-house development, including build versus buy decisions, values alignment, and researching best practices from other nonprofit programs.
Design educational program learning outcomes using Bloom's taxonomy across cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains, aligned with the logic model and theory of change for nonprofit education.
Explore course design, syllabus creation, and teaching methods for nonprofit education programs. Apply multi-modal learning strategies, align outcomes with program goals, and develop curricula and syllabi suitable for credit evaluation.
In this course you will develop an educational program plan in a nonprofit organization to help bring transformational life change in clients. This course is focused on adult education in the social service sector, but principles could apply to other types of programs. In this course you will learn the principles of adult education. In the first part of the course, you will focus on analysis including: assessing client educational needs, designing education to support nonprofit outcomes and researching outside resources and program models. In the second part of the course, you will develop educational program learning outcomes, a course syllabus, a lesson plan (which you will teach) and an evaluation and retention plan.
Key elements of the course include:
Conducting Needs Analysis
Designing Educational Program Outcomes
Designing Program Curriculum Outline, Course Design & Syllabus
Lesson Plan Design
Evaluation and Retention Planning
Andrew Sears is the President of City Vision University where we are bringing radically affordable education to those serving the poor, the addicted and the underserved. I previously co-founded MIT's Internet Telephony Consortium with one of the fathers of the internet (David Clark) focused on disruption in the telecommunications industry. Before spending the past 20 years living with and serving the poor with disruptive educational technologies, Andrew worked as a consultant to Sprint, venture capitalist and internet startups.