Analyse & Identify

Know your target group

Have you investigated the profile of your participants?
Do you know your participants’ professional development needs?
Do you know your participants’ digital literacy level and ability to participate in a blended CPD trajectory?
Have you investigated participants’ beliefs and attitudes towards technology and remote learning?
Do you know what motivates your participants to take part in CPD?
Have you identified which data are critical for the initiative’s success, thereby balancing the collection of sensitive data with the interests of your target group?
Have you obtained informed consent from participants and other stakeholders to collect and use their data?

Have you made an inventory of the available technology and how it has been used?
Have you made an inventory of the needed technology investments in devices, programs, and infrastructure?
Have you considered how technology may remove, but also erect barriers to learning for some participants?
Have you assessed what technology support is needed?
Have you weighed up the differential benefit of technology use in CPD in comparison with other relevant factors, such as facilitators’ preparation?
Have you critically investigated the evidence base regarding the selected education technology, and considered low-tech alternatives?
Have you assessed the cost implications for participants to take part in blended CPD?
Are there any regulations regarding data protection & privacy that need to be adhered to?

Do you know what content and activities you need to develop or acquire?
Have you considered in what format(s) the content be developed?
Have you compared various pedagogical approaches and decided on the approach for your CPD trajectory?
Have you searched for Open Educational Resources (OERs) and considered their usability for your CPD?
Have you developed a plan including costing for the development or adaptation of learning content?
Are you aware of the attitudes of your participants towards your pedagogical approach?

Have you assessed your facilitators’ competences to facilitate a blended CPD trajectory?
Have you identified a set of competences to strengthen and an implementation strategy (timing, methods, content)?

Have you formulated learning outcomes starting from clearly identified performance gaps?
Have you considered whether learning outcomes differentiate for the diversity of participants, are inclusive and gender responsive?
Have you considered whether the learning outcomes can be achieved by participants by completing the CPD?

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