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Module 2: Program Vision, Feasibility, and Planning

Planning Out The Program

Greg Yantz

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In Unit 1 of this module, “Creating and Aligning Program Vision,”  you began creating a blueprint with your collaborators for an online program by identifying the program’s “why” and end goal (program vision). In Unit 2, you analyzed whether it was feasible to begin the journey to program development. Now it’s time to develop the blueprint further as well as plan your journey to the final program destination. You can now create your Program Outcomes. create your plan for the structure of the program, and estimate how long it will take to finish development and launch. As noted throughout this Pressbook, you need to collaborate to be successful with program development, and this is especially true with respect to program planning. As you begin the early stages, include and communicate with stakeholders in your online program ecosystem regularly—it will support your ability to meet timelines and successfully launch the new program.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this unit, you will be able to:

  • Identify considerations for creating program learning outcomes (PLOs)
  • Demonstrate knowledge of institutional quality assurance (QA) frameworks and supports by mapping a QA process
  • Develop a timeline for program development, including milestones

You will take away:

  • Tools, processes and a framework to write your Program learning outcomes
  • Tools to create the Development Plan for your new online program

This unit focuses on the Policies and Procedures, Program Outcomes, Feedback, Continuous Improvement, and Sustainability elements of the Online Program Ecosystem. Read more about the ecosystem in Module 1, Unit 1: Collaborating to Create the Online Learner Life Cycle and its Ecosystem

 

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