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Course Development solutions from the Professional Development Center

The UT Professional Development Center uses marketing intelligence, customer feedback, and industry and instructor expertise to develop courses. Its curriculum design team identifies a lead developer who—in collaboration with the team—conducts research, examines assessment tools, chooses the appropriate adult learning model, identifies learning objectives and activities, and develops the course outline and activity sequence.

Research includes books, article reviews, white papers, author interviews, conference information, focus groups, best practices, customer feedback, experts in the field, PDC trainer input, historical and current research, real world experiential information from corporate and governmental agencies, and executive/managers who manage/lead in the topic area.

Activities include role playing, case studies, participant assessments, checks for understanding, application of activities to work experiences, and closing activities to include action plans or written exercises to implement when participants return to work.