Program Development, Planning,
Management, and Operations
The material below should be of help to
individuals interested in planning and managing a variety of programs,
conferences, workshops, and other types of meetings. It contains material I have
created plus information from a wide variety of sources. If you have additional
items, references, and/or links to suggest I add, please send me an electronic message.
Glossary of terms
for conference and meeting planners.
Program
planning facts, principles, and steps from the Iowa Cooperative Extension
Service.
Program development and
evaluation – information from the University of Wisconsin Cooperative
Extension Service
Program planning and development – a logic model
from the University of Missouri Cooperative Extension Service
An extensive look at planning from a systems approach. Intriguing but
very complicated piece: A modeling approach
to program evaluation.
A chapter I wrote several years ago on program
planning and evaluation.
Roger’s short planning
model. His long model.
And more details on the long model.
Rosemary Caffarella’s interactive planning model with
items or actions to consider when development programs.
Another planning model.
Still another
one. One called a front
end analysis. And one more related to a front end analysis.
A variety of planning models.
Another model completed as a class project.
Additional model ideas.
Planning
elements from Cornell University. Conference planning ideas.
Program
planning and procedures from the National Adult Education Professional
Development Consortium
Program planning and management, by Carter McNamara.
A group of graduate students at Florida State University created a
wonderful page on programming
in adult education.
Conference
planning ideas and more on event
planning.
A webinar
planning checklist. Another webinar
checklist. Planning virtual/hybrid
conferences.
Here is a summary of the appropriate steps, processes, and decisions in designing an
instructional process.
More information on instructional
design.
Information on various needs assessment techniques
and an overview of some needs assessment research information.
An interesting article describing what is continuing
professional education.
Ideas as writing
objectives from different philosophical viewpoints, executive summaries,
criterion referenced testing, goals for a first team meeting, and stages of
team growth.
Here is an interesting site on goals
and objectives.
Several interesting ideas on prioritizing.
Another one on prioritizing.
And a third one on prioritizing.
Here is a piece on
Critical Path Analysis, a time management tool.
Information on budgeting
and finance considerations.
Conference expense categories.
Fifteen ways to
save money on your next meeting or conference.
Considerations pertaining to advertizing and marketing
your programs.
What you need to know about making conference brochures.
Information on computer software related to conferences. Meeting and conference-related software by ACEware Systems, Inc.
Thinking about catering?
Ideas for finding and working with presenters.
A worksheet for analyzing aspects of your target
audience.
A conference planning schedule.
A conference planning timeline. Another
way of looking at a program timeline.
Types of conference
activities.
Meeting room styles.
A guide to program
evaluation. Another excellent site on program evaluation. Finally, a
basic guide to program
evaluation.
Integrating qualitative
and quantitative approaches in program evaluation.
Free resources for methods
in program evaluation and social research.
Tips and tools for evaluating
learning.
A variety of evaluation
forms and Stephen Brookfield’s Critical Incident
Questionnaire for seeking evaluative information on a weekly class.
Quick tips for making your conference outstanding.
Giving program participants more than they
expected.
Working with convention and visitors bureaus, hotels, travel agencies,
conference committees, etc. – tips from a professional
meeting planner.
Techniques,
tools, and resources for the self-directed learner.
Finally,
here is a lengthy portrayal of the efforts going into a very successful conference.
____________________
Roger Hiemstra
Updated July 6, 2012
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