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Webinar Series: Designing Feasible, Focused And Flexible Experiential Learning In Challenging Times!

A CERIC-EWO Partner Webinar Series

On-Demand (3 hours of learning)

(Original dates: Feb. 25, March 4 & 11, 2021)

Location: Online

Registration Required

Individual $119
Groups (5+) save 25%

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Overview

Getting experiential learning (EL) and work-integrated-learning (WIL) right is important, and getting each experience right feels complex. Multiple stakeholders, aims and needs pose challenges to navigating relationships and designing experiences, while ongoing shifts to remote learning and restricted workplaces remove the usual options.

Who Should Attend

This new webinar series comes in response to a popular standalone webinar delivered earlier this year by our presenters and aims to further your learning on how to design effective experiential learning. Participants don’t need to have seen the standalone webinar to attend the series.

This deeper series will teach you how to navigate among stakeholders (e.g., learners, partnering organizations, senior school or institution administrators, government and funders), identify the often-unstated intended outcomes of the experience, and design experiences within your context. Our two presenters will share the Outcome-Based Experiential Learning (OBEL) framework they developed as a concise and guided design process to enable you to successfully navigate EL planning and implementation. Furthermore, participants will also receive a complimentary copy of the new OBEL guide.

This webinar series is a good fit for:

Staff, educators and community partners working to co-design, recruit for, advise students, and offer experiences;
Community partners seeking to define why and how they will host experiences; and
Educational institutions and schools creating strategies.

Webinar #1: What Are We Seeking? Naming the Outcomes for EL with Stakeholders

Specify your stakeholders
Specify intended outcomes of experiential learning
Identify (or design a plan to co-identify) specific intended outcomes of each stakeholder group
Distinguish between opportunity types (WIL, practice spaces, projects and employment programs)

Webinar #2: What Will They Do? Identifying the EL Design Factors – Including in Emergent Contexts

Identify the five design factors influencing the possible experiences
Using the five design factors, define your current context including its possibilities and constraints
Identify how to adapt existing or planned experiences when the factor changes in your context

Webinar #3: Will It Be a Success? Aligning EL Outcomes, Activities, Assessment and Evaluation

Refine the design factors and intended outcomes including adaptation options
Select and design appropriate and feasible assessment options
Confirm alignment between intended outcomes, activities, assessment and evaluation utilizing the OBEL planning template

Learn more about the 3 webinars in the series at: https://ceric.ca/ceric-events/on-demand-webinars/designing-feasible-focused-and-flexible-experiential-learning-in-challenging-times/

Intro to Statistics for Better Decision-Making

2 Day (7 hours) Workshop

Monday May 3 and Tuesday May 4, 11:00 to 14:30

11:00 – 14:30 EDT

Registration Required

CES Full-day workshop rate:

Early Bird rate (until April 11): $175*
Regular rate (April 12 – May 3): $250*

This workshop is part of the 2021 Canadian Evaluation Society Conference Workshops

*Note: Workshop registration requires conference registration; workshop registration will be allowed without conference registration in the last 2 weeks before the conference if space allows.

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Beginner level; In English

With better statistical conversations and designs comes better-informed decision-making. Join for a practical professional workshop to brush up on what statistics is really about. This workshop focuses on a basic introduction to what statistics can be used for and can’t be used for, and how to discuss, raise and address concerns about the quality of statistical designs based on a four-part alignment framework that will help you to better describe and feel empowered to discuss statistics. Evaluators and partnering organizations often need to read and interpret reports and engage in dialogue, critique designs, and engage in decision-making discussions where statistics is held accurately or not as decisive evidence. This workshop will help you to better engage in these discussions and have an informed approach to addressing the quality of a statistical design for greater utilization of meaningful results.

Prerequisites: No prior knowledge of statistics is required. Some experience in evaluation contexts and discussions would be helpful as we will be discussing how to engage in conversations about statistics in those contexts.

Objectives

Describe the limits of statistics and appropriate uses
Evaluate an evaluation design for alignment to determine good quality statistical use
Feel empowered in their ability to discuss, explain and facilitate decision-making based on a statistical design

Webinars are designed to be professional, engaged learning spaces with interaction and questions. They are not recorded. Slides are provided to attendees.

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