E-Learning Content Development

Terms of Reference

1.         Introduction

Plan International’s mission is to empower children and youth to reach their full potential. With more than 75 years of experience, Plan is one of the world’s largest and oldest international development organizations. The Plan Federation consists of 50 Country Offices in Africa, Asia and the Americas, 21 National (fundraising) Offices, 4 Regional Offices, its global headquarters in the UK, and employs more than 9,000 staff worldwide.

Although Plan is global in its reach, it is grassroots in its approach. One of its main strengths is its long-standing presence on the ground and solid relationships with partners; last year, Plan managed thousands of collaborations with local governments and NGOs. With the help of more than one million individual donors and more than 500 corporate and institutional partners, Plan worked with more than 90,000 communities in 2013 – reaching more than 165 million people. Plan’s total income was $930 million, including $248 million in institutional grants from donors such as USAID, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, African Development Bank, UN agencies and multinational corporations.

2.         Background

Plan has been quite successful in building market driven skills sets to ensure decent work for youth, and consequently commissioned Accenture Development Partnerships to look at viable options for scaling this up. That cooperation is gathering high-level requirements, choosing a country for piloting an ICT solution, assessing various ICT options and developing a feasible implementation plan. The aim of this project is to successfully scale up Plan’s proven market-driven skills building successes through a learning management system in order to secure decent work for 50,000 youth in the Asia region by 2016. In the longer-term, Plan intends to share lessons learned across a broad array of international civil society actors, educators, private sector partners and governments to help revolutionize the way the global community approaches youth employment.

Plan is currently in the development of learning management system (LMS), enabling the organization to digitize some of its classroom-based, instructor-led vocational training.  This will enable Plan to extend the program’s reach to: prospective youth who are unable to travel to the training centers due to distance or cultural constraints; alumni who wish to further improve their knowledge and skills to improve career mobility; and existing students who will be better engaged and increase their IT skills. The LMS platform will allow individual Plan country programs to quickly adapt shared curriculums based on student or marketplace needs and provide flexibility to test approaches by reducing the time and cost to rework them. The course content will also provide flexibility to students as they can learn at their own speed or access content during non-classroom hours. The system will also provide a collaborative space for students, alumni, and trainers; and offer a comprehensive overview of participation, feedback, and training outcomes for easier evaluation and program improvement. The LMS’ reporting features will also enable improved tracking of program results and assessments of learning outcomes.

The LMS will not only enable program scaling, but will also ensure greater efficiency by ensuring limited resources are fully leveraged. For example, the development of a training course developed in one market can then be used across Asia and beyond, rather than requiring each country to invest in its own course design, production and execution. Scale, efficiency and learning are tangible hallmarks associated with this approach.

3.         Objectives

The project aims to embed ICT in the existing vocational training program to achieve the following objectives:

Increase the quality and consistency of programs by promoting best practices, streamlining processing, and automating procedures;

Create reusable assets including course content, instructional pedagogies, standardized assessments, and reporting mechanisms that can be rolled out to various countries and regions more effectively;

Increase the number of courses offered, due to:

Decrease in time taken to prepare lessons

Percentage increase in course usage at multiple locations

Decrease time taken for students to successfully complete coursework in a classroom setting

Decrease in cost per student over the lifetime of the project

Maximize the impact on student learning outcomes through cost effective and efficient initiatives without compromising quality:

Increase in test scores measuring learning outcomes

Reduction in financial and human capital associated with course creation and execution

Reduction in time associated with facilitator-led instruction

Percentage increase in number of students trained and in completion rates

Increase in rate of transition into decent work

Technology will help vocational training programs achieve their strategic goals, and will support sustainability and scalability. Having a consolidated learning platform to deploy vocational training will allow for greater collaboration between educational providers and authorities, business and youth, and will have impacts for employment and career mobility that reach far beyond the classroom.

Deliverables and Output

Develop a an e-learning course, 10-30 hours of content in both English and Thai languages, to be hosted on the Plan YES!Academy Moodle Platform

Approved outline of content framing for online concourse

Approved benchmarks for each course development based on midpoint and final product

Incorporation of Plan feedback into subsequent content

Delivery of training on utilization of final products

Course modification based on technical problems up to 1 year after final approval of contract

Schedule

This is an output based contract based on the successful completion and approval of the deliverables outlined above (versus specific number of days). 

The vendor will be required to spend specified amount of time (to be agreed with vendor) working with local/national/regional staff.

Vendor must deliver a draft of each key deliverable for approval based on a mutually agreed upon timeline.

Vendor must deliver an approved set of final product based on a mutually agreed upon timeline.

The vendor must deliver training on course use based on a mutually agreed upon timeline. 

Qualifications and Experience

Relevant academic and professional qualifications relevant to online educational development

The interested parties must have 3 years of relevant experience including understanding of technology solutions. 

Proven track record of undertaking similar assignments successfully—or compelling rationale as to why they can undertake such an endeavor.

Good interpersonal skills and able to work in a dynamic environment with multiple stakeholders at different level.

Ability to think strategically, but also result oriented and get things done.

Culturally and socially sensitive, and able to work successfully with partners and sector professionals

Our recruitment and selection policies and procedures ensure our commitment to gender equality and child protection against abuse.

 How  to apply:

       Please submit your profile, sample of  previous works and proposal to:

                        Ms. Dusnee Tantijindaporn

                      Email address: Dusnee.tantijndaporn@plan-international.org

                      by Monday 28th  December 2015.