  Shaping Outcomes National Launch Shaping Outcomes, an online course in outcomes-based planning and evaluation (OBPE), is available to museum and library professionals. Shaping Outcomes is a collaboration between the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI) to create an instructor mediated online course that trains library and museum professionals to master and apply OBPE concepts to museum and library programming, and exhibition planning. Participants in Shaping Outcomes work at their own pace through five interactive modules over 4-6 weeks. With the support of an instructor, they learn the vocabulary and methods of OBPE and they develop a logic model for a program or project at their own institution. The Indiana University School of Library and Information Science, Indianapolis, is pleased to announce that they will offer a new round of the Shaping Outcomes course, beginning in January 2008. The course, accessible from any state and library type, and will teach participants the skills needed to design project evaluation suitable for LSTA and other library grant sources. Individual or team participants will pay a fee of $150 for instructor interaction and certificate of completion/skill attainment; IMLS scholarship funds will be available for institutions serving economically challenged populations. For more information, please visit our website at www.shapingoutcomes.org or contact us by email at outcomes@iupui.edu or through postal mail at: Shaping Outcomes
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