ACPE Course Series – Developing and Ensuring Quality in Experiential Education – For Organizations

About This Course Series

This virtual professional development series will address the key elements and processes foundational to the development of a quality experiential education program. Throughout the course, participants will complete a series of asynchronous webinars at their own flexible schedule. The asynchronous webinars will be supplemented with synchronous online discussions with experts in experiential education.  Dates will be provided at least 30 days in advance for each of the synchronous online discussions.

At the end of the course series, participants will have acquired the knowledge, skills and confidence to successfully oversee a quality experiential program.

This course series provides 10 units of continuing professional development. Learners will engage in a continuing professional development process as a component of the series and will receive a Certificate of Completion at the end of the series.

Objectives:

At the end of the course series, participants will be able to:

• Describe how the experiential curriculum is linked to the program’s learning outcomes, national standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Design an integrated experiential curriculum that is structured and sequenced to support achievement of the program learning outcomes.
• Develop specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) learning objectives aligned with the overall curricular and program learning outcomes for each experiential rotation.
• Describe the administrative support structure and responsibilities needed to support development, delivery and assessment of the experiential curriculum.
• Develop a comprehensive plan for the identification of preceptors and practice sites.
• Develop a systematic assessment plan to evaluate achievement of the student learning outcomes and effectiveness of practice sites and preceptors.
• Describe key components in preceptor education.

Who Should Attend:

The course series is open to all faculty, academic staff, administrators, and staff to attend. ACPE notes that the course would be particularly impactful for faculty and staff involved in experiential education.