Course Overview
Standards make a positive difference in our lives, impacting the quality and safety of almost everything we do at home, work, and play.
Learning how to find standards will help you access best practices, guidelines, and minimum requirements when you need them.
Once you've found and reviewed the standards you need, how do you apply them?
Getting involved in the standards development process means that you can:
- Contribute to standards that impact people at home, at work, and in the community.
- Gain insight into the development of a standard and have a say on what is included.
- Make valuable industry connections
Learning Objectives
Standards: Why Care?
- Define standards and the role they play
- Describe the relationship between standards and regulations and how their purposes differ
- Advocate for the value of standards
Standards: How Do I Find What I Need?
- Identify standards catalogues
- Navigate to a standard
- Navigate within a standard
Standards: How Do I Apply Them?
- Identify when, in the design and development process, standards should be taken into consideration
- Describe considerations for how to apply standards
Standards: How Do I Get Involved?
- Identify points in the standards development process where a professional can get involved
- Describe the benefits of getting involved in developing standards
- Identify how to get involved in standards development
Standards: Facilitator Guide
This guide contains all the resources instructors need to successfully deliver the four standards lessons to their students.
Target Audience
- All individuals interested in learning more about standards (Modules 1-4)
- University and college students
- University and college professors
Estimated Completion Time
80 minutes
