Course Description
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 adult education programs. In this course you will learn and apply the principles of adult education through project-based learning. 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. In this course, you will synthesize a major doctoral project combining theoretical and practical research related to Nonprofit Educational Program Design, specifically for your context.
Course Outcomes
- Create a philosophy of adult education for your context based on the principles of adult education and the characteristics of adult learners.
- Develop a detailed assessment of your client educational needs and a plan to assess client needs and capabilities in the future.
- Generate a detailed theory of change and logic model for your organization’s holistic program and explain how your educational program components will support the larger program or organizational outcomes.
- Research, evaluate and utilize outside learning resources as well as best practices and program elements from organizations to use in your program.
- Design educational program outcomes that follow best practices and support nonprofit program outcomes.
- Develop a syllabus for a course following best practices that supports at least one of your educational program outcomes.
- Create and deliver a one hour lesson plan utilizing instructional strategies that fit with your lesson plan outcomes and your audience.
- Develop a retention and evaluation plan to improve your education program.
DOLI Degree Program Outcomes
Degree outcomes are the overall skills and knowledge we expect you will have after successfully completing a degree program at City Vision University. This course supports the following program outcomes, marked with an (I) for Introduce, (D) for Develop and an (M) for Mastery. After completing the degree, you will be able to do the following in each of the listed domains:
- Research methods. Apply action research methods to practical research topics in the field.
- Diffusion of Innovation. Utilize technology and relational networking to help diffuse innovations within a community of practice.
- Values Alignment. To develop a theological vision and to align your organization’s strategy, culture and systems with that vision to avoid secularization and mission drift.
- Strategy. To develop a synthesis to integrate a wide range of business skills into a strategic plan for starting or growing an organization.
- Social Entrepreneurship. Develop strategies and plans to effectively use technology and innovation to achieve organizational goals.
- Action Research Project. Synthesize action research with theory and practice to solve a practical challenge facing your organization and/or the larger field.
Concentration Outcomes
- 7a. Executive Leadership & Fundraising. Develop and implement plans to grow an organization in its impact, financial health and relational health.
- 7b. Nonprofit Program Leadership & Social Entrepreneurship. Improve the effectiveness of nonprofit programs by implementing best practices. (M)
- 7c. Education Leadership and Innovation. Apply disruptive and continuous innovation principles to designing courses and programs to provide radically affordable and practical online education. (M)
- 7d. Organizational Culture and Change Management. Develop and implement plans to improve organizational health and adapt to change. (M)
- 7e. Trauma-Informed Counseling Management. Develop and implement plans to establish trauma-informed culture of health throughout an organization.
Broad Institutional Doctoral Outcomes
- I1. Knowledge (Head). Apply a wide range of tools to help solve society’s great problems by shifting from a single lens/tool/discipline to a multiple lens, multifaceted Biblical understanding of reality.
- I2. Skills (Hands). Develop the skills you need for the next position in your development as a leader by shifting from mastery & understanding of a division in an organization to a comprehensive systemic mastery/understanding needed to lead across the organization. (D)
- I3. Attitudes/Character (Heart). Develop the character and discipline needed to step into greater leadership roles by losing the bias of your old position to gain broader perspective and intellectual humility needed to accelerate your commitment to lifelong learning.
Syllabus
Course Materials & Tuition
| Cranton, P. (2012). Planning Instruction for Adult Learners, 3rd Edition. Wall & Emerson, Inc. ISBN: 978-1895131253 | $20.00 |
| Tuition | $ |
| Total Cost of Course: | $ |