Event Date: 2025-01-13 EnCompass Learning Center Deadline: 2025-01-12
Organizations are increasingly being asked to use artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance their evaluation practices. To guide employees in leveraging these new technologies, organizations must develop AI policies to clarify what is and is not allowable and what ethical considerations must be taken into account to ensure its responsible use. In this course, participants will learn about the principles of AI-enabled evaluation and how to develop an AI Policy to guide their work. They will review sample policies, consider what should and should not be included in a policy, and learn about best practices in launching an AI Policy and overseeing compliance.By the end of the course, participants will be well-equipped to develop or enhance their organizations’ AI policies, helping ensure that the strategies are ethical, effective, aligned with their organizational goals, and will ultimately drive significant improvements in program outcomes and operational efficiency.
Event Date: 2025-01-22 AND implementation Consulting Inc. Deadline: 2025-01-14
Arts-based methods facilitate enriching, meaningfully messy, and – dare we say fun – ways to collaborate, collect data, and practice reflexivity. Just like a good survey or impactful interview, arts-based methods require a strong theoretical foundation, practice, and more practice. Anchored in practice, this 6-week online beginner course offers practicing evaluators 12 hours of original content, opportunities to learn 4 methods (photography, poetry, collage & drawing), hands-on skill-building, and a small/supportive learning community. Learners will gain the confidence and understanding to navigate ethical decision-making, choose between different techniques, and pitch arts-based methods. This course will help evaluators spice up their practice, strengthen their qualitative skills with “imaginative interviewing,” and flex their creative muscles. No artistic skills or experience required.
Event Date: 2025-02-04 EnCompass Learning Center Deadline: 2025-02-03
Organizations deliver the interventions (e.g. programs, strategy, policy) that we evaluate. Therefore, the ability to assess, understand, and advise organizational capacity development in relation to these interventions is an important skill set in the evaluator’s toolbox. This workshop will bridge theoretical concepts with practical, hands-on guidance for organizational capacity assessment (OCA), stressing a heuristic, systemic approach that can be adapted to different organizational contexts. It is appropriate for evaluation specialists or those who commission, manage, or use OCA. By the end of the course, learners will understand OCA, when it is useful, its key principles, different OCA frameworks, and practical considerations during the inception, implementation, and follow-up phases of OCA. Hands-on tools and resources will be introduced that can be adapted to a variety of organizational contexts to approach and support OCA.
Event Date: 2025-02-12 EnCompass Learning Center Deadline: 2025-02-11
Are you new to the field of evaluation? Are you wondering what it’s all about? Will you be commissioning an evaluation? This course will demystify the evaluation journey and explore the choices, roles and challenges that evaluators must navigate in the real world. Join us for a two module course designed to help explore the world of evaluation practice. Case studies, exercises and small group conversations will help participants learn how to clarify interventions, identify beneficiaries, gather data, discuss results, and develop recommendations, all the while fostering a reflective, ethical and culturally sensitive evaluation practice. The Being an Evaluator course is delivered in two virtual, instructor-led modules. Classes will take place online via Zoom. Certificates of completion will be provided at the end of the course to all participants who have successfully completed the modules. Read more about each of the modules below.
Event Date: 2025-02-20 EnCompass Learning Center Deadline: 2025-02-19
Surveys are everywhere, especially in the social, behavioral, and evaluation sciences. They are really easy to use. They are also really easy to mess up, making results useless. In this course, participants will learn the importance of good survey design, including when to use them, how to design them, and how to avoid common mistakes. This course is delivered in two interactive modules. Classes will take place online via Zoom. Certificates of completion will be provided at the end of the course to all participants who successfully complete both modules.