Continuing Professional Development: Designing for Success

Summary 

  • Learning mode: Action Learning Workshop
  • Date: Feb 21 and 28
    April 23 and 30
    June 20 and 27
    August 20 and 27
    Nov 19 and 26
  • Location: Learning Innovation Building (17), The University of Queensland, St Lucia Campus
  • Course Duration:Two day workshop, day 1 and 2 are one week apart 
  • Cost: No cost to UQ Staff 
  • Provided by: CIPL
  • Course brochure

Overview

An Action Learning Program from the Centre for Innovation in Professional Learning.

Turn your Continuing Professional Development (CPD) idea into a successful education program using best-practice, professional development design and business tools. This action learning workshop will take your CPD from an idea into a reality.

This is an action learning process, so you will be bringing your own project to the workshops.

Working with peers and the experienced team from the Centre for Innovation in Professional Learning, you will go through the process of developing and testing your educational and business approaches, using methodologies developed and proven in the real world.

To get the best results from this workshop, you will participate as team of two, ideally with one person focusing on the business aspects of the opportunity and the other on the CPD program design.

Who should participate?

This workshop is available to UQ staff:

  • CPD advocates who wish to encourage CPD initiatives to engage with alumni or industry
  • Academics with a course idea to service professional learning and development needs
  • Business managers or sponsors supporting CPD initiatives.

Teaching faculty

Professor Robert Hendy, CIPL Director
Professor Lynn Robinson, Deputy Director
Ms Han Le, CPD Learning Designer
 
Additional members of the CIPL team are also available to assist participants during the workshop.
 

Authority

Centre for Innovation in Professional Learning, The University of Queensland.
Students who complete the CPD: Designing for Success workshop will receive a Certificate of Completion from CIPL.

 

Objectives

In Day 1 of the workshop, you will:
  • discuss the CPD challenge: what it is and why you are involved
  • relate your CPD opportunity to the strategic intent of the University
  • identify and analyse the requirements of the target audience for your CPD product
  • characterise the size of the CPD opportunity and the potential funding opportunities
  • identify the CPD mode you are operating in and the delivery model you will use
  • reflect on how to test market demand
  • understand how to tap into sectoral and enterprise workforce needs
  • develop a ‘go-to-market’ strategy.

In Day 2 of the workshop, you will:

  • describe the educational design parameters that contribute to the cost of your CPD opportunity
  • calculate the cost-effectiveness of your education product
  • identify the risks to the success of your CPD opportunity and develop a risk-management approach
  • develop and present a business pitch for your CPD opportunity
  • understand the role of a business plan in realising your CPD opportunity
  • decide on the feasibility of your CPD opportunity
  • plan the next steps in taking your CPD opportunity forward. 

Activities

This is an action learning process, so you will be bringing your own project to the workshops.

 

Working with peers and the experienced team from the Centre for Innovation in Professional Learning, you will go through the process of developing and testing your educational and business approaches, using methodologies developed and proven in the real world.

 

To get the best results from this workshop, you will participate as team of two, ideally with one person focusing on the business aspects of the opportunity and the other on the CPD program design.

Pathways

You may wish to explore other CIPL workshop and activities available to UQ staff, plus follow-on activities offered to graduates of the ‘CPD: Designing for Success’ workshop.

Find out more...

 

Register

To enrol, email your name/s organisational unit, contact information and a 1-2 paragraph description of your Continuing Professional Development (CPD) opportunity to CIPL.

Workshops are offered at no cost to UQ staff.

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