I developed the Community On Demand™ Game-Based Learning Management System (LMS) because I believe education is most powerful when it aligns with personal, professional, and community development goals. Based on the best practices of what made my farm successful, Community On Demand offers you a clear, cohesive learning journey in three phases that ties courses, tools, and activities into one integrated framework.
Phase 1: Foundation – SIP Certification & Skills Self-Assessment
Every great journey starts with a strong foundation. In this phase, you gain essential skills in decision-making, critical thinking, and collaboration. You will also conduct a skills self-assessment to identify your strengths, weaknesses, and areas for growth as you create a roadmap for your personal and professional development.
Intro: The STEAM Investigative Process Certification
First, you are introduced to The STEAM Investigative Process (SIP) course series. This three-part series helps you build your own decision-making framework so you can gain greater self-awareness of your skillset and measure your level of readiness for future projects.
The SIP Certification course series includes:
- The Strategist Mindset: Learn how to align your approach with your purpose.
- The SIP Roadmap: Master the five phases of decision-making: research, design, plan, coordinate, and evaluate.
- The SIP Grid: Collaborate effectively by mapping different mindsets and strategies.
Activities: Skills Self-Assessment
Once you define your unique STEAM Investigative Process, you will use the Community On Demand™ Skills Self-Assessment worksheet or game board to conduct a skills assessment and evaluate your current skillset. This worksheet helps you identify and categorize over 69 skills as "Skills I Have & Use", "Skills I Have But Don’t Use", or "Skills I Don’t Have" to identify gaps and opportunities for growth. It also helps you build a personal skill map that can serve as a guide throughout your learning journey.
Why It Matters
Your SIP decision-making framework is a personal roadmap and serves as the foundation of your strategic planning process. It will be used to guide you through the challenges and opportunities that arise in future projects and coursework. By starting with a skills self-assessment, your gain a clear understanding of where you stand and how to align your learning with your personal and professional goals. Combined with your SIP Certification, you’re now equipped to make smarter decisions, collaborate effectively, and tackle complex challenges with confidence.
Phase 2: Application – Leadership Pathways
With a strong decision-making and strategic planning foundation in place, it’s time to apply what you’ve learned. Whether you’re a young innovator, leader or entrepreneur participating as a JEM Team member, a community activist participating as a stakeholder, or an individual participating as an aspiring leader, the Unified Learning Framework of the Community On Demand™ LMS provides a step-by-step path to build your skills, create meaningful impact, and measure your success.
This phase splits into two pathways and is tailored to strengthen your skills during our leadership challenge called The Stakeholder’s Dilemma.
Stakeholders Pathway
The Stakeholder's Pathway is a series of courses designed to develop leadership skills and create actionable solutions through community-based challenges for participants 18 yeas of age or older. The course series include:
- Leadership Roles: Learn how to drive projects and inspire teams.
- Community Involvement Growth Strategy (CIGS) Model: Understand how to design impactful solutions for community challenges.
- The Stakeholder’s Dilemma: Use the Canvas Model to identify resources, skills, and strategies to address an issue and hand it off to JEM Teams for implementation.
JEM Teams Pathway
The JEM Team Pathway is a series of courses designed to equip youth and young adults ages 17 & under with skills in team-building, leadership development, and project execution. With a focus on team structures, detailed project plans, and implemented service-learning projects, this course series includes:- The Money Guide for Young Entrepreneurs: Build financial literacy and entrepreneurial skills to implement Stakeholder solutions.
- Fresh Bites Service-Learning: Apply entrepreneurial skills to food systems and community-focused solutions.
Why It Matters: This phase bridges learning and action and is designed to helps all participants work in teams, take on leadership roles, and create tangible outcomes for their communities.
Phase 3: Mastery – Skill Impact & SROI
The final phase focuses on mastery. It takes everything you have learned and gives you opportunities to apply and measure your impact and value you contribute to society (i.e. your social return on investment (SROI).
Through the Build For Your Future: Skill Development course, you participant in A capstone experience that brings all the pieces of your learning journey together. This is where you present your the final results of your collective efforts and highlight your advanced skills in project management, community engagement, and ROI measurement and present finalized SROI reports, actionable community-based solutions, and clear evidence of personal and professional growth.
Why It Matters: Mastery demonstrates that participants have the ability to not only create solutions but also measure their success and understand their impact.
Why the Dashboard Is Important
By tying our courses and pathways together, participants:
- Start with Awareness: The skills self-assessment ensures a personalized learning journey from the start.
- Gain Real-World Skills: Transition from foundational learning to applying knowledge in impactful ways.
- Achieve Measurable Growth: Track their progress and contributions through SROI metrics and project outcomes.
This framework ensures that participants don’t just take courses—they embark on a transformative learning journey that prepares them for leadership, career success, and community impact.
Your Call to Action
Ready to start your journey? Whether you’re laying the foundation with SIP Certification, stepping into leadership roles, or mastering advanced skills, the Community On Demand Game-Based Learning Management System has a place for you.
👉 Join Today: Explore our courses, pathways, and opportunities to make a difference in your community.
👉 Take the First Step: Begin with your Skills Self-Assessment and SIP Certification courses and start building your future today!