Scheduled Online Courses

INTENTIONAL DESIGN ONLINE

Why take this course? 

Strong facilitators need strong learning designs, and strong learning designs need strong facilitators. This course focuses on the design part of that equation and focuses on how to do this online. You will learn how to develop a learning program that honors adult learning principles and seamlessly weaves content with process.

 

What will you learn?

This is an engaging and highly personalized course, with ongoing invitations to test, try and practice the new content being learned. Here is a sample of what you will have achieved by the end of the course:

  • distinguished between a learning-centered and teaching-centered approach, and what this means in an online context
  • used tools and models to ensure an intentional focus on learners and their needs
  • used the 4A model in develop learning tasks to maximize learning in a virtual context
  • designed a short learning session on a topic related to your work using the principles and practices of a learning-centered approach as well as the 8 Steps of Design
  • selected tools and technique to maximize learning online
  • determined elements to enhance the learning journey using a blended approach.

 

What else do you need to know?

  • Platform: Ruzuku
  • Length: This course runs for five weeks. One lesson (1-3 hours of work) is released each week.
  • Elements of the Learning Journey: This course includes learning modules and activities in Ruzuku; at least two Zoom synchronous group gatherings; and 1-1 mentoring.
  • Pre-requisite: None.

 

DISEÑO INTENCIONAL EN LÍNEA (NUEVO!)

¿Por qué hacer este curso?

Los instructores fuertes necesitan diseños de aprendizaje sólidos, y los diseños de aprendizaje sólidos necesitan instructores fuertes. Este curso se enfoca en la parte de diseño de esa ecuación. Aprenderás a desarrollar un evento de aprendizaje que respete los principios del aprendizaje de adultos e incorpora a la perfección el contenido con el proceso.

 

¿Qué aprenderás?

Este es un curso interactivo y altamente personalizado, con invitaciones continuas para probar y practicar el nuevo contenido que se está aprendiendo. Aquí hay una muestra de lo que habrás logrado al final del curso:

  • distinguir entre un enfoque centrado en el aprendizaje versus centrado en la docencia, y lo que significa en un contexto en línea 
  • uso de herramientas y modelos para asegurar un enfoque intencional en los estudiantes y sus necesidades. 
  • uso del modelo de 4A’s para diseñar tareas de aprendizaje efectivas para maximizar el aprendizaje en un ambiente virtual 
  • diseño de una breve sesión de aprendizaje sobre un tema relacionado con tu trabajo utilizando los principios y prácticas, con un enfoque centrado en el aprendizaje, así como los 8 pasos del diseño. 
  • Seleccionar herramientas y técnicas para maximizar aprendizaje en línea  
  • Determinar elementos para realzar la trayectoria de aprendizaje utilizando un enfoque mixto.  

 

¿Qué más necesitas saber?

  • Plataforma a usar: Ruzuku
  • Duración: este curso tiene una duración de seis semanas. Se lanza una lección (1-3 horas de trabajo) cada semana.
  • Elementos de la Trayectoria de Aprendizaje: este curso incluye módulos de aprendizaje y actividades en Ruzuku; al menos dos reuniones grupales sincrónicas de Zoom; y 1-1 tutoría.
  • Requisito previo: Ninguno.

 

LEARNING EVALUATION BY DESIGN (NEW!)

At GLP, we believe that a strong learning design “begins with the end in mind.” We make a clear distinction between feedback and evaluation. We think of evaluation in three stages: learning, transfer, and impact. This is a deceivingly simple model that, when unpacked, yields great insight into how to design learning opportunities for the greatest potential impact.

 

What will you learn?

This is an engaging and highly personalized course that balances group learning with solo learning. The course will sharpen your vision for change, and set you up to thoughtfully document that change. By the end of the course, you will have:

  • affirmed and fortified ways you already do learning-centered evaluation
  • generated creative possibilities to gather and use learners’ feedback
  • crafted learning objectives that are more measurable indicators of learning
  • designed a plan to evaluate learning and learning transfer for an upcoming learning design of your choice
  • used the principles of inclusion and accountability to strengthen an evaluation plan
  • maximized potential impact by focusing on the environment in which learners apply what they have learned

 

Course Components

  • Three live, virtual sessions:
    • Kick-off session: Focus on teaching a practical framework for learning evaluation
    • Workshop: Focus on supportive coaching on your emerging evaluation plan
    • Closing session: Focus on exchange of evaluation plans and feedback on your plan
  • A series of short, engaging online modules (to complete at your own pace, on your own schedule)
  • The course includes est. 15 total learning hours (12 virtual learning hours and 3+ hours on-your-own)

 

What else do you need to know?

  • There is no pre-requisite for this course (previous training with GLP is helpful but not necessary)

 

FROM DATA TO INFORMED ACTION

Why take this course? 

Many organizations collect data that could make their work more efficient and more effective. The challenge is that data is often either inaccessible to staff or perceived as irrelevant to staff. This course offers staff with varying roles and perspectives to dig into their data in ways that serve them and the vision of the organization. A learning-centered approach to data will help you engage others in understanding the story the data is telling, discerning the questions it is raising, and clarifying the implications for action.

 

What will you learn?

This is an engaging and highly personalized course, with ongoing invitations to test, try and practice the new content being learned. During the course, you will work alone both on and off the computer, as well as participate in a group session on-line. Here is a sample of what you will have achieved by the end of the course:

  • located data you or your organization is already collecting and determined how it is currently being used
  • reviewed a model from knowledge management theory and identified critical factors for ensuring that data is used to support informed action
  • analyzed the data you found to identify the story it tells and the questions it raises
  • created a tool to select and effectively share your data with a group
  • created a learning-centered design for bringing data to your group.

 

What else do you need to know?

  • Platform: Ruzuku
  • Length: Six weeks, including orientation. There is one group live session at the start of the course followed by six weekly modules on your own time with online communication among course participants and facilitator. The weekly modules are available each Monday morning.  The expectation is that learners work through their tasks according to the realities of their personal schedule and the Monday-to-Monday timeline. There is total estimated course time of 12-20 hours.
  • Pre-requisite: None.
  • Note: It is strongly recommended that you take this course with at least one colleague who is involved in planning the same event as you. Participating with your entire planning team is ideal.

 

CONFERENCES + CONVENINGS  RE-IMAGINED

Why take this course?

How many times have you gone to a conference (or organized one) where everyone actively learned new things and connected the topics of the conference with their day-to-day work back home? If you have, you are lucky. Most conferences aren’t like that – but they can be!

In these virtual times, it is even more difficult to imagine. Not only do we need to ensure learning happens but now we need to do this virtually!

Whether you plan to host your conference online or you are waiting it out to host an in-person event when COVID-19 no longer has us all shut-in, this course has much to offer.

 

What will you learn?

This is an engaging and highly personalized course, with ongoing invitations to test, try and practice the new content being learned. During the course, you will have solo work as well as participate in a group session on-line. Here is a sample of what you will have achieved by the end of the course:

  • articulated key attributes of a learning-centered conference and considered how to use them in your own planning
  • named persistent conference challenges you want to address and identified potential leverage points
  • considered the opportunities, technology and techniques for virtual sessions or moving your gathering online
  • selected tools from the Learning-Centered Conferences Toolbox and used them in the event you are planning
  • practiced refining conference designs by giving and receiving feedback on designs
  • drafted your conference design with a plan for integrating additional learning-centered aspects into your upcoming conference.

 

What else do you need to know?

  • Platform: Ruzuku
  • Length: Six weeks, including orientation to the learning platform. There is one (1) live group session at the start of the course followed by six weekly modules on your own time with online communication among the course participants and the facilitator. The weekly modules are available each Monday morning. The expectation is that learners work through their tasks according to the realities of their personal schedule during the Monday-to-Monday timeline. There is total estimated course time of 12-20 hours.
  • Pre-requisites:
    • You have a large gathering or event you need to plan
    • Ideally, you take this course with 1 or more colleagues who are also involved in planning the event you are working on.

MEETINGS RE-IMAGINED

Why take this course?

Build a healthy, productive meeting culture with practical skills applied to virtual or in-person meetings.

Meetings can consume a lot of our time or they can be satisfying opportunities to learn from colleagues and accomplish meaningful work together. Whether you are attending or running meetings in your workplace, we all have a choice to inherit the prevailing meeting culture or to strengthen it by being more effective and efficient.

 

What will you learn?

In this course, you will actively explore key concepts and develop practical skills that, together, will help you re-imagine the meeting culture in your workplace. Throughout the course you will apply what you are learning by workshopping a meeting plan for one of your own upcoming meetings.

Here’s just a sample of the specific objectives you’ll achieve during the course…

  • Distinguished among three critical phases of meetings and the value of each.
  • Practiced how to convey clear, unambiguous expectations for a meeting, and for each person in it.
  • Used a 4-part framework to intentionally plan a meeting, even when time is tight.
  • Clarified the roles of meeting attendees for effective and efficient decision-making.
  • Explored how to avoid unnecessary meetings.

 

Course Components

  • Session 0 to get comfortable navigating Miro and our KnowHowHub app
  • Three 2-hr engaging virtual events (once per week for 3 weeks)
  • Micro-learning “nuggets” via text + email (3 times per week for a month)
  • Follow-up Group Coaching session to help you apply learning from the course to your work and workplace

 

What else do you need to know?

  • This course is adapted from the GLP course previously known as SURE-Fire Meetings
  • Pre-requisites: None. However, this is a great next step for those who have taken Foundations of Dialogue Education.

 

CUSTOMIZABLE FOR YOUR NEEDS

If you are interested in a course that is not currently scheduled, you can express your interest here.  If your organization is interested in a particular course, you can also contact us to arrange for a private, customized course that is suited to the unique context of your organization. Class sizes are limited depending on the content and number of facilitators to ensure a participative, learning-centered approach.

If a one-on-one approach works best for you, consider mentoring.

 

FLEXIBLE PRICING

If you are a nonprofit, work in the education or faith-based field, or otherwise need financial support, we usually can provide some discount. We also recognize the value in partner learning (2+ people from an organization attending the same course) and are often able to offer a discounted rate in these situations. Please note that discounts may not be combined with any other promotions.