(1)Initiation of the DAF Family Legacy Online Learning Platform
In order to support the DAF Family Legacy Office and other participants of the DAF Ecosystem in carrying out training projects, to build a non-profit knowledge service platform for the DAF Family Legacy Office and other participants of the DAF Ecosystem to display excellent resources of training achievements and video courses, and to promote learners to experience the resource-based interactive learning, the DAF Family Legacy Office will initiate the ‘DAF Family Legacy Online Learning Platform’.
(2)Nature of the DAF Family Legacy Online Learning Platform Project
The DAF Family Legacy Online Learning Platform Project (hereinafter ‘This Project’) is a charitable project in nature, initiated solely by the DAF Family Legacy Office. During the preliminary operating stage, the DAF Family Legacy Online Learning Platform will operate and carry out activities in the name of the DAF Family Legacy Office. During the mature operating stage, the DAF Family Legacy Office will manage and operate the DAF Family Legacy Online Learning Platform jointly with third-party non-profit organizations. The establishment and operation of the DAF Family Legacy Online Learning Platform is not for profit-making and has non-profit characteristics.
(3)Positioning of the DAF Family Legacy Online Learning Platform
a) Positioning during the Preliminary Operating Stage
During the preliminary stage of its establishment, the DAF Family Legacy Online Learning Platform is mainly positioned at:
i. Serving as a Charitable Platform for Providing Training Resources under Different Scenarios to Particularized Relevant Parties
During the preliminary stage, the DAF Family Legacy Office will explore a non-profit To-business cooperative model with particularized relevant parties. By promoting relevant video courses to specific relevant parties in a non-profit form through the DAF Family Legacy Online Learning Platform, the DAF Family Legacy Office will meet the resource requirements of specific relevant parties to conduct high-end charitable training for its employees or customers under different scenarios, provide new business development sites for and empower specific relevant parties, thereby encouraging them to provide mission-based high-end charitable services for their clients.
ii. Serving as a Charitable Platform for Professionals to Record Courses and Provide Knowledge
The DAF Family Legacy Online Learning Platform is a charitable platform for professionals domestically and abroad to record courses and provide knowledge. On the basis of public charitable training needs, the DAF Family Legacy Office will invite or encourage outstanding professionals in related fields (such as lawyers, accountants, tax advisors, and so on) to record the corresponding training courses for the DAF Family Legacy Online Learning Platform. While providing professional, authoritative, rich, and in-depth theoretical knowledge, the DAF Online learning Platform also focuses on the development and design of practical courses to make course contents more applicable, practical, and operational.
iii. Serving as a DAF Ecosystem Online Course Publication Medium and a Professional Content Provider of the DAF Ecosystem
The DAF Family Legacy Online Learning Platform will serve as an online medium for excellent courses in the fields of donor advised fund (DAF), family legacy, social finance, and so on, and is a professional content provider for the DAF Ecosystem. During the preliminary stage, the DAF Family Legacy Online Learning Platform will make it a priority to provide professional and high-quality course resources in the field of Strategic Philanthropy in a non-profit form.
b) Positioning during the Mature Operating Stage
i. Establishing a Customized Non-profit Online Interactive Learning Platform Integrating Social, Emotional and Knowledge Needs
A mature online interactive learning platform shall meet trainees' multiple social, emotional, and knowledge needs. Based on this, the DAF Family Legacy Online Learning Platform will establish a customized non-profit online interactive learning platform integrating social, emotional and knowledge needs: By continuously exploring trainees’ characteristics, so as to promote the trainees’ community communication, and to meet the trainees’ social needs; by building relationships among the trainees so as to seek recognition and emotional support from the trainees’ community; by leading trainees to develop good online learning habits, so as to promote learners to experience a resource-based interactive learning and help them to acquire knowledge more conveniently, attentively and continuously.
ii. Promoting the Development of the Adaptive Learning Management System
For the purposes of creating a well-developed, efficient and systematic online training platform available for trainees domestic and abroad, when conditions are favorable, both parties may collaborate with other institutions in developing the Adaptive Learning Management System, which is suitable for every trainee. The development of the Adaptive Learning Management System is trainee-oriented based on the DAF Family Legacy Online Learning Platform, advanced software for course design such as GIFT (generalized intellectual frame for tutoring), and trainees’ past experiences, educational backgrounds, and work experience. A Learning Record Store for each trainee will be established to maximize the achievements of individualized teaching, and to provide trainees with an interactive learning platform that combines modules including pre-class guidance, course learning, group work, assessment, and learning records.
The DAF Family Legacy Online Learning Platform does not establish an independent official website for the time being. For more details about the DAF Family Legacy Online Learning Platform, please refer to the website of the DAF Family Legacy Office (www.DAF-familylegacy.org.cn).