My Intro to Program Planning & Evaluation in Adult Education @ OISE

Where would the summer be headed without a glimpse into the happenings at OISE at the University of Toronto.  This time around, it's a bit of a new experience given the birth of our dear little Shugga Plum.  Now two months old, it's time I venture back out into the real world beyond spit-up, diaper changes and baby coos.


What did the real world hold in the first class of Program Planning and Evaluation in Adult Education?  An introduction, of course, to the others in class, the course materials, and what's ahead.  Given that my occupation as project manager has been to focus on building and managing projects, primarily e-learning over that last few years, I'm quite anxious to see how the transition from project to program plays out and of course how program planning differs from project planning.  There is evaluation built into the project management cycle but to evaluate an education program may prove to be a different experience perhaps.  


Given that by the end of this course, we will have the opportunity to develop a program plan and evaluation, some of the topics for such plan could be:

• A continuation of the Adult Computer Literacy "project" at SEHC (phase two)
• A new program plan for Chronic Disease Self-Management for corporate employees
• A "green" office education workshop for the home care office setting

Or perhaps something completely different, we'll see what ideas the second class brings.