Delivering a Workforce Planning Culture: Cohort 1 Specific

Objective of the module

The content of this module and the assessment strategy is designed to equip you with the appropriate knowledge and skills to develop and sustain regional learning networks so that their technical expertise is effectively transferred to other staff within your organisation and/or region.

Learning outcomes:

The workshop days, materials provided and the assessment will help enable you to achieve the following outcomes;

1. Critically analyse conceptual frameworks related to learning and development in order to develop approaches to training practice which deliver effective workforce planning and reform
2. Critically examine and experiment with appropriate face to face training and development methodologies for developing sustainable learning and information dissemination
3. Explore complex issues of developing diverse learners, with a range of learning needs, and managing learning events targeted at multiple levels of engagement in terms of design, implementation and evaluation
4. Critically evaluate own ability to create learning or deliver information in a way that meets both your own development objectives and the needs of learners with diverse needs.

Skills outcomes

As a result of taking this module you will be able to:

1. Present to a diverse group of learners demonstrating both an understanding of their learning needs and utilising competently a range of communication, dissemination and engagement strategies
2. Design, deliver and evaluate a learning event, which is based upon a rigorous learning needs analysis and identification of learner needs.

Module content

The module will cover the following: leaning needs analysis (pre reading)

• Methods and techniques
• Sources of information and methods of information gathering
• Personal, organisational and role factors
• Prioritising needs and producing a learning specification.

• The principles of adult learning and learning styles
• Factors affecting design
• A framework for learning design
• Learning strategy, training methods
• Structuring training and development sessions
• Designing evaluation strategies
• Transferring and sustaining learning
• Event plans
• Managing training design to delivery allocation.

• Creating a positive and supportive learning climate
• Differentiating between trainer and learner centred methods of delivery
• Managing materials and the environment.

• Establishing the purpose of evaluation
• Issues of reliability and validity
• Developing and applying an evaluation framework
• Feedback strategies
• Documenting for improvement and sustainability.

Assessment

To secure credit for this module, you will be required to;

• Present to a group of diverse learners and to design, deliver and evaluate a learning event that takes the form of a workshop, seminar, or information dissemination event. The event must involve face to face contact with a group of learners and appropriate engagement strategies
• The presentation component of the assessment will be during the third workshop day when you will be required to carry out a short presentation/exercise to/with a small group of colleagues and facilitators. This is for feedback purposes and will not incur marks. However completion of this presentation is a requirement for module accreditation
• Analysis and critical evaluation of the event. This paper will be no more than 5000 words and will attract 75% of the mark
• A learning contract will be agreed with the workshop facilitator prior to the 3rd workshop. This contract will specify the nature of the learning event, objectives and timescales. The contract will attract 25% of the total module marks.