MODL offers a very flexible delivery paradigm:
- Time: a 40-Hour Course in 5 days, 5 weeks, or anywhere in between
- Place: in the classroom or over the Internet or both
From a time perspective, you can teach a 40 hour MODL course in 5 days, which is the traditional method, or 5 weeks with the students participating a few hours a day. In fact, you can teach MODL courses in any timeframe you - and your customers - want.
From a place perspective, there is flexibility there as well… MODL CPLS partners can deliver courses in the classroom, or over the Internet, or both in a hybrid format. Below are two sample delivery options - operating at extreme ends of the 40-hour spectrum: 5-Days or 5-Weeks. Let’s review the 5-Day option. This is the shortest duration you can teach a 40-hour course. In this example, each module kicks off with a 2-hour (G)ATHER session: 1 in the morning (at 8:00AM) and 1 in the afternoon (at 1:00PM). These sessions are delivered collaboratively and facilitated by a MODL-authorized MCT. Then, from 10:00AM to Noon, the students go off and complete their 2-hours worth of self-study - i.e. E*A*R.
When the students return from lunch, they kick off another (G)ATHER session and end the day with 2-hours worth of E*A*R. In a 5-Day MODL course, your students experience two (2) modules in a single day, versus two modules per week in the 5-week version.
In addition to the scheduling flexible just discussed, you have three “place” options for delivering MODL. You can either do it all Distance, all in the Classroom, or a Hybrid. In the hybrid example, you can combine some students in the classroom and some students at a distance. Or, you can deliver the (G)ATHER sessions in the classroom and send the students home for two hours to do their homework. In this mode, you could teach a 40 hour course in two weeks by having your students come to a classroom for only two hours a day. I’m sure you can appreciate that there are a variety of MODL Delivery Best Practices to optimize MODL instructor utilization. Here are a few to consider:
- Instructor runs daytime and evening classes
- Class 1: 9:00AM to 5:00PM daily
- Class 2: 6:00PM to 8:00PM twice a week for 5 weeks
- Instructor runs 2 interwoven 5-day classes
- Class 1: 8:00AM to 4:00PM daily
- Class 2: 10:00AM to 6:00PM daily
- Instructor runs multiple 5-week classes simultaneously
- Class 1: Every Monday
- Class 2: Every Tuesday, etc
- Instructor interleaves teach and preparation time for 2 weeks
- Class 1: 8:00AM to 12:00PM daily
- Prep Time: 1:00PM to 5:00PM daily
- Other Utilization Best Practices
- Capture multiple time zones in the same delivery day
- Combine onsite and online students in the same MODL class
