Coaching Programme Announcement

Example of the CPeO business

Complete CPeO programme structure including eLearning readiness assessment (see procedure in detail), 3 face to face workshops (F2F) and final examination

Booking and customer service	Please send us your inquiry by e-mail or call us. You reach us at +49-(221) 8809 621, or write to Mr. S. Hoffmann at shof@hoffmann-reif.com.
Coaching duration	dependent on target group and customer objectives; there are available 3 months to 8 months packages
Language	English; localization to other language (e.g. Spanish, Arabic) is at planning stage
Fee	depending on duration and number of participants (groups of 500 receive 50% discount)
Who is this course for ?	This course is for teaching professionals, educational management staff and consultants who are planning to launch organisational development projects for establishing ICT based educational services (e.g. Classroom, Blended Learning, eLearning).
Objectives	You will cooperate with the CPeO coaches to achieve the following objectives for developing your organisation:
	to set up an e-learning competence centre at your site to set up a service network of authors and tutors who produce, deliver and moderate courses as part of their established training programme to follow a two-path strategy which combines skill building with organisational building to ensure that all training products and organisational strategies can be re-used for further training projects
	You will cooperate with the CPeO coaches to achieve the following objectives for developing your own instructional services:
	to transform face-to-face training into blended learning endeavours to practice online teaching by applying your own material to analyse and design an organisational environment for your teaching services to define financial requirements, calculate project budgets, define sources of income (if required), internal and external alliances and partnerships for securing the development of your service environment to apply consulting models to the development of instructional products and services to set up your own training portal by applying a state-of-the-art Learning Content Management System and Learning Management System (LCMS and LMS)
	and, most important,
	you will do all this by experiencing blended learning instruction.
Bonus	dependent on the implementing consortium
Prerequisites	see page Prerequisites for participation
Available	CPeO packages can be offered one month after booking
Class size	Groups can be clustered to 20, 40, 100 and 500 (special arrangements can be offered)
How you will learn	The CPeO offers much more than training programmes - it is action learning and intense cooperation over distance while staying at your workplace. You will cooperate with experts working in the field with a long and successful track record. They will provide for project support along the line of your job responsibility and will facilitate that you advance in your carreer. You will get lots of opportunities to discuss topics of practical relevance. You'll get expert feedback on your deliverables. You will discuss your project and expected outcome, receive personal advice online and during face to face events. You will get support through mailing lists, chats and e-mail in order to make your deliverables more successful.
What this course requires from you	If you are new to self-directed learning, you may find this style of learning innovative and a bit frightening. But no one will nag you or criticize you for not participating. The whole programme requires your active and timely participation since you learn by participating actively and by working on your project together with your peers. You alone are responsible for your own learning. That means you must have the drive and discipline to learn throughout the coaching programme within a rather demanding schedule. Please check the Job Evaluation Scheme (access code required). The advancement of the group and individuals is made visible continuously each time after your deliverables were assessed.
Time required	The coaching programme has a modular structure and can be tailored to your organisation´s needs. The complete programme looks like this: 130 working hours during the online phase; 70 face-to-face working hours; 150 hours on project implementation (change management and course production); approx. 350 hours during 8 months (approx. 45 days, 12 hours/week). It is recommended to reply to your fellow learners as soon as possible and to work at the pace of the group. If you study the material please do it at once and do not divide up your study time frequently. There are three mandatory face to face events (in the beginning, in the middle of the programme and at the end). Each event lasts at least 3 days.
Technical requirements	The technical prerequisites have been adapted to high and very low bandwidth conditions. You can participate e.g. from Uganda with a 2 Kilobit connection or from Berlin with a 4 Megabit DSL connection from your home office or workplace. The coaches worked under the variety of connectivity settings and can offer the same high quality services independent of your bandwidth. You can access the coaching programme by using all operating systems. Your computer can be a recent model or a five year old Pentium PC. Our staff provides for technical support so that you can participate efficiently and focus on your job responsibility.
	For best institution´s infrastructure to run face to face workshops please check page Action Learning Workshops For best participant´s infrastructure please check page Online Participation
To get most out of this course	Do all the proposed activities since you become assessed according to the quality of the deliverables. The activities let you apply what you have learned immediately. Review the readings after you complete the activities. The activities will make clear how you can apply the readings to your project. Participate in the discussion groups. Ask questions, debate issues, and especially help your peers.
Authors and facilitators	The coaching programme was developed and is facilitated by a network of international consultants, managed by the Hoffmann&Reif partner network. Please check the list of contributors. The authors and coaches are working as project managers, change management consultants and instructional designers. They already have set up educational institutions in developed and emerging markets. They offer you much more than training services since they have the experience and capability to assist you at your workplace so that you can develop your own tailor made solution.
Credits	The CPeO can be taken over by a customer and become embedded in their curriculum. By default two types of certificates from the project consortium and participating universities are issued upon successful completion. If more than 80% of the score has been achieved a Business Certificate is issued with the permission to take over the CPeO. If continuous participation and partly successful deliverables have been achieved a Certificate of Participation is issued.
Before you start	There is a pre-assessment center at your place before the coaching programme starts. There are some pre-class readings and activities. Please review the prerequisites in this announcement and the list of technical requirements to make sure that you meet all of them. If you would like to get in-depth information please check the pre-assessment procedure (access code required).
Course phases	Phase 1: Face-to-face session at partner site a) Orientation and project definition b) Establishing the local service development core group c) Practice of media production d) Initiating and setting up a local service infrastructure Additional introductory readings: a) Basics of eLearning instruction b) Basics of Instructional Design c) Basics of service development Phase 2: Online instruction a) Service development and institution building b) Standard Operating Procedures for setting up training services c) Concepts and technical production of instructional media d) Feasibility, sustainability analysis e) Project planning and budgeting f) Instructional Design of learning material and assessments g) Production of the participants courses on the platform Phase 3: Face-to-face session at partner site a) Examination for the participants b) Concepts of the participants' course production projects c) Project planning and establishing of quality assurance mechanisms Phase 4: Online project coaching a) Planning and implementation of the participants' projects b) Coaching by the expert facilitators c) Monitoring of the participants' projects Phase 5: Face-to-face session at partner site a) Examination for the participants b) Presentation of the project results c) Certification of courses and participants Follow-up coaching: Phase 6: Online coaching, 6 months a) Coaching of courseware development and teaching service delivery b) Coaching on technical service infrastructure maintenance c) Quality assurance of educational service products d) Development of "good practice" examples Phase 7: Online coaching, 12 months a) Exchange of interoperable courseware b) Promotion of network service products
Schedule of material delivery	You receive Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) on a weekly basis. The timeline for deliverables depends on the amount of work which is required to pass the SOP.
	We wish you all a successful collaboration with experts from Africa, America, Asia, Australia and Europe - all joining this event at the same time ! The Coaching Team