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Enhancing Your Emergency Management Program: Insights for Effective Course Delivery

Discover strategies for building and maintaining an effective emergency management program at the College of Lake County, Illinois. This guide emphasizes the importance of understanding your area demographics, including potential student profiles and their motivations for taking courses. Learn about various course delivery methods—traditional, online, and hybrid—and how to adapt offerings to meet different learning styles and schedules. Incorporate feedback from students to continuously improve your program and ensure it aligns with community needs and local hazards.

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Enhancing Your Emergency Management Program: Insights for Effective Course Delivery

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  1. Building and Maintaining Your Emergency Management Program(Lessons Learned) Associate’s Degree and Certificate Levels

  2. Know Your Area Demographics • How many potential students are there? • Who are they? • Traditional • Older returning • Business/industry? • Why are they taking courses? • Academic program • Work related • Resume enhancement

  3. Lake County, Illinois

  4. Main Campus, College of Lake County Illinois

  5. Know and Understand Your Area • What is the composition of your area? • White or blue collar • Foreign language speakers • Elderly • Education level • What are the hazards you might encounter? • Natural • Technological • Terrorism/Homeland Security

  6. How To Offer Courses? • Traditional • Online • Hybrid The method of delivery will depend largely on your students and their schedules. Course offerings can be made in a way that accommodates different schedules, needs, and learning styles.

  7. Course Offerings and Formats Courses can be modified or adapted so the information can fit specific needs. For example, students in an emergency planning course should be able to adapt the material to fit their situations such as businesses, schools, community, etc. Courses may be offered in 8 or 16 week formats. Online courses are the most flexible for students’ time Hybrid courses require a minimal amount of time in class Traditional courses may fit some (more traditional) students’ schedules

  8. Expect some difficulties getting started until you find out what delivery system works best for your students. Feedback from the students will help you to adjust the content to fit their needs. Whatever you decide to do, it is always well to….. Ask the students!

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