Course: Strengthening Resilience through Basic Skills Training: A Design Thinking Approach

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The aim of the course

Getting to know certain design steps and stages that can help in the planning of adult basic skills courses that enhance resilience of citizens.
Learning about some innovative practices from the field of adult basic skills provision.
Meeting fellow professionals in Adult Learning and basic skills provision to learn from joint dialogue.

How to complete the course

Engage with the course content (open, read, listen, watch resources).
Reflect on your professional practice with the help of a Design Thinking Activities week by week (you can find these activities at the end of each week’s content page!)
Design Thinking & basic skills provision Page

Read this page as an introduction to the approach of this course toward Design Thinking, basic skills provision for adults and strengthening resilience!

Welcome to the first chapter of this online course! Please find some details about the materials and learning activities here:
Read the learning content in the pages titled: Design Thinking & basic skills provision and Step 1: Understanding the Challenge! There are readings, short videos, and some visualised content here. You may take notes of the most important parts of the content that speak best to your context.
After covering these units, you will arrive at the Cases studies where you can see examples of practices that relate to the Design Thinking steps discussed in this chapter (Discovery & Interpretation).
At the end of this chapter, you can find the Design Thinking Activities. These are short reflective activities giving you the opportunity to think about your own professional context and practice with special regards to applying the Design Thinking approach. You can download the assignment sheet and fill it out with your written reflections.
Watch the opening webinar Page
Step 1: Understanding the Challenge Page

Find the weekly learning materials in this page! Go through the short readings and visual models and watch the videos. Make sure to stop for a moment at the question marks to reflect on the materials. Think about how you would answer these questions considering your practice!
Case studies Page
Design Thinking Activities: Define the Challenge & Making Sense of Inspirations File

Welcome to the third chapter of this online course! Please find some details about the completion of this chapter’s materials and learning activities here:

Read the learning content in the pages titled: Step 3: Evolve the Provision! There are readings, short videos, and some visualised content here. You may take notes of the most important parts of the content that speak best to your context.

In this chapter, we are not presenting specific case studies as we would like to encourage you to engage in the Design Thinking Activities of the course!
Step 3: Evolve the Provision Page
Evolve the Prototype File
Watch the closing webinar Page

Thank you for completing the course!

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