Action Items

Attendees

Jeff, Amy, Chris, Zac

Note that Carissa Ganapathy from CARB will join our call next month to describe their work on developing online courses

'July Action Items'

Zac: add discussion of this WG's training delivery methods document to the August call; status: sent before call
Chris: post training delivery methods document to EPA Sharepoint for group editing; status: pending
Zac: compile results/summaries from new evaluation pilots for review on next WG call; status: in progress, discuss on Sept call

'Update from EPA on internal work assignment, matrix, and delivery methods doc'

Expecting something later this week, needs EPA review first, before it's send to this WG
Looking for individual comments on the doc, not consensus due to FACA
Sent comments on the matrix to the contractor and these are being integrated into the deliverable

'EPA/ICF presentation on delivery methods to the LMS WG'

Presentation on blended learning methods, and tool used at ICF for people who are designing trainings to answer question on how to apply learning methods
Chris may send slides, don’t circulate the slides, and MARAMA has a recording of the webinar;
Zac reacted to the notice of a presentation on delivery methods to the LMS WG because he felt it was infringing on the domain of this WG
Assured by Chris and Adam that it was an effort to get the LMS WG started on thinking about the capabilities need for the new LMS; will still be coming to this WG for information on delivery options
Discussion on scope and purpose of the ICF slides, can this information be used by this WG w/o violating the ICF IP restrictions?
Should we review the ICF tool? May get some ideas, but want to have some flexibility to develop/customize?
What flexibility could there be in borrowing ideas from the tool?
Concern that once we see the presentation/tool we’ll be held to an agreement to not use/share
Chris decided to not share the slides on the tool for now, will let this WG work through our internal process
Question about whether there are restrictions to using the ICF tool on an LMS developed by someone else?

'Delivery methods discussion'

Question about the objective/scope of the document; decided that it's an internal working document that's developed to normalize the language used to describe delivery options, and to list the universe of options available/appropriate to the national training program
Amy will update the document to include an objectives statement at the top
Began at the top and reviewed comments on the Classroom learning option; decided to remove internship/mentoring as a training option because it's not applicable to the national training program
Amy will parse the definition of lecture vs. training in the document
Amy to clean up the document comments/edits and send to Zac for posting as a Google Doc
All WG members to review/edit/comment on the doc before the next call