Step 2: Progress- and Success-focused Program Design
After conducting the preliminary needs analysis, the next step is the Design of the program. There are many ways to define design. In this report, we use the term to describe the process of determining how your learning initiative will be structured and delivered to the learners in order to maximize their success both academically and on-the-job. The design phase is where program staff decides what support services are needed, what content to offer, when to offer it, how to offer it, and how newly-gained competencies will be recognized and rewarded.
Key components include:
- Use delivery systems and formats that make the learning accessible to the target population
- Innovation: Accelerated learning programs
- Innovation: Online programs
- Make the learning sequential, progressive and competency-based
- Innovation: Bridge programs
- Innovation: Progressive career ladder programs
- Innovation: Apprenticeship programs
- Broaden the Experience Base
- Innovation: Provide internships
- Innovation: Provide transitional jobs
- Tools and Resources For Program Design