Training
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Introduction
Training Courses / on-the-job Training
During preparation and planning phase, assessing
- Suitability for media environment
- Clarity of goals and objectives
- Budgeting
- Adequacy for specific participants
- Selection, recruiting and preparation of trainers
- Quality of formative and summative evaluations
- Capacities of implementers
During and at the end of a course or set of courses, assessing:
- Conducive learning environment
- Factors negatively interfering with learning atmosphere
- Improvement in skills of participants
- Improvements in knowledge
- Changes in ethical/professional orientation
- Quality of trainers
Follow-up phase
Training Centres
Assessing institutional capacity
- Effectiveness of organisational structures and procedures
- Organisational sustainability
- Selection and performance of trainers
- Stakeholder participation
- Managerial performance
- M&E responsibilities and procedures
- Adequacy of trainee resources and equipment
- Conducive learning environment
- Engagement with media community
Evaluation of curricula, assessing
- Procedures for evolution and adaptation of curricula, to
- align to changing media environments
- meet demands of job market
- needs of different participants
Follow-up activities
- Practical application of skills, knowledge and professional orientation of individual participants
- Improvement of participating media outlets
- Effectiveness of alumni networks
Journalism Faculties
Assessing institutional capacity
- Adequacy of training resources and equipment
- Adequacy of student assessment procedures
- Programme/Project/Course monitoring and evaluation responsibilities and procedures
- Management and leadership capacities and performance
- Methodologies and pedagogical approaches
- Selection and performance of faculty instructors
- Sustainability
- Conducive learning environment
- Engagement with media community
Evaluation of the curricula
- Balance between theory, practical application and reflection
- Relevance/Coverage of special subjects
- Procedures for evolution and adaptation of curricula to changing environments, to
- align to changing media environments
- meet demands of job markets
- meet needs of different participants
Follow-up activities
- Effectiveness of alumni networks
- Tracer Studies
