MODULE:
CAPACITY-BUILDING FOR CIVIL SOCIETY
ORGANIZATIONS
The Hauser Center's distance learning initiative is
designed to equip faculty and trainers with educational
resources to teach capacity-building concepts to leaders of
civil society organizations (CSOs). The initiative is led
by L. David Brown, Ph.D.,
Lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government,
and Associate Director for International Programs at
Harvard University's Hauser Center for Nonprofit
Organizations.
This website contains teaching materials that can help
CSOs--large and small, alike--and are arrayed by topic:
(1) Introduction to Strategy and Organizational Learning
for Civil Society Organizations; and
(2) Introduction to Identity, Legitimacy, and
Accountability for Civil Society Organizations.
These curricular "modules" are not online courses. They are
teaching materials that have been used in Harvard-led
workshops of CSO leaders. These materials comprise teaching
cases, teaching notes, lecture presentations, videos, and
other tools with which to teach concepts (and applications
of concepts) to nonprofit and civil society leaders.
How to Teach a Distance Learning Module:
What is a distance learning "module"? We refer to a module
here as a set of materials that, collectively, form an
intellectually coherent group of work on a given
topic.
This module includes two types of educational resources,
which can all be used to develop a teaching plan. The
teaching cases are designed to stimulate
classroom discussions about real-life organizational
situations. The teaching
notes complement the teaching cases by
providing information on how to teach these cases and
concepts. Other resources, such as
PowerPoint presentations, supplement the teaching notes and
teaching cases.
Link to module website:
http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k7405&pageid=icb.page27885