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Part 1: Designing Training for Real-World Impact

Training is not just content delivery. It is an intervention in a specific context, with specific people, intended to support meaningful change.

In Part 1, you design your training as a system:

  • grounded in your learners and their contexts
  • aligned with the change you want to support
  • structured through outcomes, activities, practice, feedback, and assessment
  • shaped by real-world constraints

This work helps you move from:

"What should I teach?"

to

"What change should this training support, and how will I design for it?"

By the end of this part, you will have a coherent, context-aware training design that you can run in practice.

To increase the reach and usefulness of your work, you can go a step further by:

  • creating resources you can return to, refine, and build on over time
  • shaping your materials so they can be understood and used by others
  • structuring them so they can be adapted to different contexts
  • documenting them in ways that support reuse and ongoing improvement

👉 Part 2 builds on this and focuses on developing your training into open educational resources (OER) that can be shared, adapted, and sustained.

Lessons in this part

  1. Training as a System Intervention
  2. Theory of Change, Positionality, and Your Role
  3. Understanding Your Learners
  4. How People Learn
  5. Learning Outcomes and Alignment
  6. Co-Design and Constraints
  7. Designing Learning Activities
  8. Practice, Feedback, and Iteration
  9. Assessment for Learning