Sprout e-course – Pearson Fellowship for Social Innovation

Sprout E-course

The Sprout E-course is designed to give young leaders worldwide access to training in essential skills, including team building, project management, communications and leveraging technology as they imagine, plan and develop social innovation projects.

Since 2008, over 400 emerging social innovators from 71 countries have participated in the Sprout e-course. We offer this e-course to any young person with internet access and a brilliant world-changing idea.

The Sprout E-course is a 9-week e-course including 1 orientation week, 6 weeks of lessons and quizzes, and 2 weeks of independent work. The curriculum is structured into four modules as follows: design, plan, connect and assess. Each module requires participants to complete one lesson and at the end of each module, participants will complete a quiz and self-assessment to progress to the next module. Module lessons cover everything from articulating the issues your project aims to address to developing your project mandate, action plan, team structure and funding ecosystem.

Want to know more? Download a copy of The Sprout Story & Curriculum which identifies the key skills participants develop during the e-course and offers an overview of each module and lesson on the Sprout journey.

Eligibility

Basic eligibility for Sprout means that you are: 

• Between the ages of 16 and 30 as of January 1, 2012
• Interested in creating positive change in your community
• Fluent in spoken and written English with good online communication skills
• A member of the TakingITGlobal community
• Able to access regular and reliable broadband internet

Participation Requirements

Participating in Sprout requires that you:

• Attend an orientation
• Complete all 6 lessons and 4 module quizzes
• Prepare a Final Project portfolio
• Dedicate a minimum of 3 hours per week over the period of the 9 week course

Offerings

As a Sprout participant you will receive:

• Access to a practical and engaging online learning community of inspiring and motivated changemakers
• Friendly and effective technical support
• Online training prior to the start of the e-course
• Six weeks of collaborative online learning
• Two weeks of indepependent project development
• One professional development webinar
• An amazing and innovative educational experience
• A Certificate of Completion for successful completion of the course

Updates

We are looking forward to evolving our social innovation programming in 2013. Only customized versions of Sprout will be delivered in 2012.

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