Capstone: Master’s Project

EDUC 6960: Capstone: Master’s Project

Week 3: Discussion: Project Outline

Use this week’s Discussion to share your progress and concerns as you develop your project outline and select stakeholders to review your project. It may be helpful to discuss roadblocks and problems, finding background material, questions on deliverables, target audience, and possible models or best practices that are germane to your project.

 

By Day 3

Post your draft project outline in the Discussion Board for feedback. Additionally, share concerns you have about your project. Use the Discussion Board to ask questions and make suggestions to assist each other with your project development.

 

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Week 3: Assignment: Project Outline and Stakeholders

For your Capstone Project this week, you will complete an outline of your plan/proposal and describe the stakeholder audience to whom you will present your draft project.

 

A key element of your Capstone Project is presenting your project to a stakeholder audience and obtaining their feedback on your plan or proposal. In Week 6, you will informally present your draft project plan or proposal to a relevant stakeholder audience – an administrator, staff member, or faculty member at the institution you are targeting for your project, and/or an employer, alumni, or community representative. You may present your project to an individual, several individuals separately, or to a small group. Consider that the more people with whom you share your project, the more useful feedback you are likely to receive on the value and appropriateness of your project for that institution.

 

Using feedback from your colleagues and Instructor, revise your problem statement and rationale (submitted in Week 1), add your literature review, and develop an outline of your project plan or proposal. Your outline should include the following major elements:

 

· Goals for the project

· Description of the local context

· Activities, initiatives, or strategies to be used

· Deliverables or outcomes – what the project should accomplish

· How the project, if implemented, could be evaluated or assessed

· A proposed timeline that could be followed to implement the project

· A list of budgetary items – financial, human, or other resources – that would be needed to support the project

· The stakeholder audience to whom you plan to present your project plan/proposal, and reasons for their interest in the project

Assignment length: 1–2 pages for outline, ½ – 1 page for description of stakeholder audience. Also, include your revised problem statement and rationale from Week 1.