Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) 2
In 2014 the ELD Initiative successfully launched its first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) with more than 1500 registered participants. A subsequent and equally successful course was offered in 2015.
The MOOCs are web-based intensive courses with flexible participation, video lectures and offline reading material.
While all information and materials of the courses are still openly accessible and free of charge, it is not possible anymore to hand in assignments or receive certificates.
Prerequisites
- There are no participant prerequisites for this type of online course beyond interest in the topic
- MOOCs are entirely free of charge, and open to any interested party
- Participants can be located anywhere, work in any sector, and have any background
MOOC 2 - Options and pathways for action: Stakeholder Engagement
Introduction
In continuing to support the ELD Initiative capacity-building endeavours, a second ELD MOOC 'Options and pathways for action: Stakeholder Engagement' was offered by the Initiative in 2015. Building off the 2014 ELD MOOC, which focused on performing cost-benefit analyses to promote sustainable land management, the 2015 ELD MOOC addressed the importance of working with relevant stakeholders to implement sustainable land management choices effectively and sustainably. The course introduced approaches to identify options and pathways for action, methods to identify stakeholders, and how to establish a basis for initiating engagement and discussion.
Contents
Module 1: Stakeholder engagement and the Economics of Land Degradation (ELD) Initiative
Module 2: Options and pathways for action and stakeholder engagement
Module 3: Basics of stakeholder analysis
Module 4: Setting up effective communication
Module 5: Stakeholder engagement plan
Module 6: Conditions and skills required for ‘successful‘ stakeholder engagement
Module 7: Measures of stakeholder engagement success
Upon completion of this course, participants are able to:
- Describe examples of possible options and pathways for the adoption of sustainable land management;
- Clarify the objectives of stakeholder engagement;
- Identify the main stakeholders involved in land management;
- Undertake a stakeholder analysis;
- Identify most appropriate stakeholder engagement instruments in specific cases;
- Prepare material for engagement and discussion with stakeholders;
- Critically assess conditions and skills required for successful stakeholder engagement, and
- Develop a stakeholder engagement plan
The live recordings are still openly accessible to any interested party!