Training Delivery WG

National Training Program Wiki Main Page

Members

Co-Lead(s): Jeff Gabler (WESTAR), Zac Adelman (LADCO)

Amy Mathison (WI DNR), Chris Stoneman (EPA OAQPS)

Overview and Charge

Tasks

1. Develop/maintain list of instructors by subject categories and course topics.
2. Develop and implement a process for recruitment of new instructors.
3. Develop and implement use of improved tools for evaluation of instructors and course materials.
4. Oversee interactions with instructors to address needed improvements to instructional materials and to provide other course support.
5. Develop and implement delivery format alternatives for all courses including classroom and e-learning/distance learning.
6. Provide updates to instructors regarding course library additions and updates.
7. Provide information to instructors on use of LMS functionalities and enhancements to aid them in fulfilling their instructor roles for downloading and uploading information to the LMS.

Conference Calls

3rd Wednesday @ 11:00 Central

May 17, 2019

Action Items

Attendees

Agenda

• Review April action items
• Orient new WG members to tasks and priorities
• Review charge and ask for this WG
• Review Jeff's terminology memo
• Discuss how to identify the best deployment options for a course

Attendees Jeff, Amy, Zac

Call Notes

April 2, 2019

Action Items

• Jeff: research terminology
• Jeff: reach out to MJO training coords for upcoming trainings to test new evaluation instruments
• Zac: draft WG charge
• Zac: draft WG ask to get people on board for April 17 call

Attendees Jeff, Zac

Agenda

• Review action items
• Review tasks and prioritize
• Work on charge and ask for this WG
• Discuss current e-learning options available through APTI-Learn and elsewhere
• Review materials sent by other WG's (e.g., instructor list, course inventory)

Call Notes

• Review tasks and prioritize
  • (1) Instructor list - received from Kara, Jeff will take this on
  • (2) Instructor recruitment flyer - received from Kara, will need to have active recruitment efforts
  • (3) Evaluation instruments - recently developed, passed forward from the JTC workgroups, now need to test the new formats
  • (4) Interactions with instructors
  • (5) Delivery format alternatives - need help from learning/teaching experts, recruit into this workgroup, want to generate excitement about this task in the recruitment ask;
  • (6) Updating instructors on course library updates
  • (7) Update instructors on functionality

• Brainstorm on ask
  • Terminology - what do we call this?
  • Commitment: At least 1 hour/month, a bit more time earlier on getting familiar with the process
  • Objective is to identify learning alternatives, find opportunities in the training program to implement alternatives, what courses fit
  • Need people with experience in learning alternatives (distance learning? e-learning?)
  • Can we bring in people from outside of the state agencies?
  • How involved are the e-learning courses? Do some courses require more formatting than others?
  • What is the student experience? What is the course developers experience? Is there a role for a learning expert to tailor courses to an e-learning format
  • Need people with experience developing/using e-learning technology, knowledge of alternatives, people with experience using e-learning from the student perspective, people with knowledge of the air pollution training courses to identify opportunities to use e-learning in the curriculum
  • Develop recommendations for the new LMS, what capabilities are needed in the new server
• Direct Recruit: Lisa Bush (CARB), Kevin ? (VA)

March 20, 2019

Action Items

• Zac: Create this wiki
• Zac and Jeff: research current training curriculum e-learning options
• Zac: develop a charge for this WG
• Zac and Jeff: develop and ask for the regions/states for recruitment
• Jeff: identify past JTC WG efforts that transition into this new WG (i.e., list of instructors) and facilitate handoff of these efforts

Attendees

Zac and Jeff

Agenda

Kick off the WG and discuss member recruitment

Call Notes

• Reviewing JTC workplan and discussion of tasks
  • Instructor list, recruitment, evaluation, interfacing with instructors seem manageable as they will carry forward work recently completed or already underway in the previous JTC workgroups (identify the WGs and facilitate handover to this WG)
  • Delivery format alternatives (scope #5) is going to be the biggest challenge; need to get learning exports in this WG to help us understand what technologies/techniques are possible and best suited for the training materials
• Need to review what's currently available for training, check APTI SI
• Direct recruit of WG members: VA and CARB staff
• Broadcast wide recruitment message to MJOs for bringing in state/local staff
  • Need to develop and ask: how much time, what's the charge of the group, what's expected of the WG members
• Develop list of deliverables for this WG, with timing
• Regular call schedule