ASIP Ideation and Planning Skills for Employment Success

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This course was developed thanks to funding by the Government of Ontario and through eCampusOntario's support of the Virtual Learning Strategy. The course was created under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike (CC-BY-NC-SA) license, specific license details below, which means you're welcome to reuse and remix this course for other educational purposes! Although we developed each module as building blocks for the entire course, many of the skill development modules could easily be taken as standalone pieces with some minor editing.

We hope you enjoy exploring the course content and find something useful for your own curriculum needs. We would love to speak to you about adapting this project. For all inquiries about the project, please email us at asip@utoronto.ca

The ASIP Team

Course Overview

This course was developed by the Arts & Science Internship Program (ASIP) in the Faculty of Arts & Science at the University of Toronto. ASIP combines 12 to 20 months of paid work experience with specialized professional development training. Students complete this year-long course in their third year prior to completing their second work term (8-16 months).

Our priority was to provide an opportunity for ASIP students to further develop in-demand transferrable skills, which resulted in developing this industry-partnered course, "ASIP Ideation and Planning Skills for Employment Success", which includes 12 skill-development modules. Please refer to the instructor guide below for further details about the project and a summary of each module. You may also want to visit the PD3 and PD4 Course Introduction page of the course. (We informally refer to the course as PD3 and PD4 as they are the 3rd and 4th ASIP professional development courses).

During their second work term, which they complete after this course, students will also complete a course about workplace innovation. "Workplace Innovation Skills for Employment Success" teaches students about the importance of employee-led workplace innovation and job crafting, and how they can best leverage it to support their career growth. That course was also developed under a CC-BY-NC-SA license.

Modules List

This course contains 12 modules (plus two optional bonus modules as noted below):

  • Course Introduction
  • Intercultural Communication and Collaboration
  • Automation and Sustainable Development
  • Design Thinking
  • Universal Design
  • Workplace Project Management
    • Introduction to Workplace Project Management
    • Teamwork and Leadership
    • Goal-setting and Planning
    • Flexibility, Problem-solving, and Critical Thinking
    • Conclusion to Project Management
    • Bonus A: How to Become a Certified Project Manager
    • Bonus B: Agile Project Management
  • Workplace Communication
    • Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication
    • Effective Presentations

Instructor Guide

This Instructor Guide PDF Download Instructor Guide PDF contains full details about the project, including the project background, how to download and edit content, accessibility features, attribution licenses for all multimedia content, etc.

Image Attribution

Images used in our courses were retrieved from stock image libraries such as Adobe Stock (Standard License) and Shutterstock (Standard Image License); designed using the Bitmoji platform; provided by our industry partner; or created by our multimedia development and instructional design team. For details about the source of each image, refer to the ASIP Image Attribution Table PDF Download ASIP Image Attribution Table PDF document. Course imagery that has not been created by ASIP represents exclusions to the Creative Commons license applied to this project. The terms and conditions of the original license applies to these images.

Industry Insights

To ensure our curriculum was connected to real-industry experience, we reached out to professionals working in a wide variety of areas to ask them about their experience as it relates to all of the module topics. We also surveyed our own students about their work term experience. Throughout the modules, you will find quotes from their survey responses. Further details about the industry insights can be found in the instructor guide, including attribution instructions. You can download the raw survey data here (XLSX). Download You can download the raw survey data here (XLSX).

Personas

Throughout the course we mention five "personas" - fictional characters who are ASIP students from different departments. We created a story for each persona character. To read the summary of each persona's bio, click here for Persona Bios Summary PDF Download click here for Persona Bios Summary PDF.

Persona bitmoji images were created on https://www.bitmoji.com/ Links to an external site. and are subject to the Snap Group Limited Terms of Service Links to an external site..

ASIP persona bitmojis

License Information & Funding Acknowledgement

All modules created for Ideation and Planning Skills for Employment Success by the Arts & Science Internship Program (Office of Experiential Learning & Outreach Support, Faculty of Arts & Science, University of Toronto) are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License Links to an external site., except where otherwise noted.

This project is made possible with funding by the Government of Ontario and through eCampusOntario’s support of the Virtual Learning Strategy. To learn more about the Virtual Learning Strategy visit: https://vls.ecampusontario.ca Links to an external site..

CC Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike This course content is offered under a CC Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike Links to an external site. license. Content in this course can be considered under this license unless otherwise noted.