Practical Academics

Practical Academics develops, operates, and hosts training and development programs in a variety of markets:

Young Adult Education
Professional Development Programs
Personal Development and Life Long Learning programs and communities.
The foundations of our model are learner-centered design, competency-based organization, and blended delivery. What does this mean?

Learner-Centered design means more than “it’s all about you, baby,” it’s a design philosophy that focuses on developing a deeper capacity that you would get in a lecture-based or online DIY class. By incorporating active learning strategies with rich learning experiences, you get you more value for your educational investment.

Competency-Based means three things: 1) you learn practical skills that you need to develop your work or grow your personal or professional capacity, 2) program are generally short and targeted, focusing on practical knowledge and skills, and 3) competency-based learning is defined by the achievement of mastery of the subject, not a function of the time spent on a topic or the age of the student.

Blended delivery means part in class and part online: A learning management system (LMS) opens the doors of the classroom for anytime communications with cloud-hosted original and curated content. In class meetings are used where needed, where face to face communications are most effective:

Building the team
Developing core understandings of program details and concepts
Team-based and hands-on project time
Contact us to discuss your training and development program needs.