1. A Training Design Tool for Stakeholders Tasked with Evaluating New and Innovative Treatment Technologies for Small Drinking Water Systems
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Joy Barrett, Ph.D.
Director of Training and Technical Services
Rural Community Assistance Partnership

2. National Centers for Innovation in Small Drinking Water Systems
Funded by EPA Office of Research and Development - Science To Achieve Results (STAR) Program
Identify, develop, demonstrate
and facilitate widespread acceptance and applicability of
novel and innovative technologies
funded in 2014
WINSS = Water Innovation Network for Sustainable Small Systems (WINSSS)

3. Objectives:
The Center’s overall objectives focus on applying principles of risk reduction, sustainability and new implementation approaches to innovative technologies that will reduce the risk associated with key contaminant groups and will increase the chance of adoption and sustainable use in small systems.

4. Objectives:
The Center’s overall objectives focus on applying principles of risk reduction, sustainability and new implementation approaches to innovative technologies that will reduce the risk associated with key contaminant groups and will increase the chance of adoption and sustainable use in small systems.

5. DeRISK =
Design of Risk-­‐reducing, Innovative-­‐implementable Small-­‐system Knowledge

6. DeRISK Team Members What do you notice: All universities except RCAP
That’s the on-the-ground implementation part

7. RCAP’s Role at the DeRISK Center
Facilitate widespread acceptance and applicability of innovative technologies and approaches through:
New strategies for technology assessment and implementation

8. “New strategies for technology assessment and implementation”
Develop and test a multi-criteria decision support methodology
Develop approaches to training
Target audience: stakeholders that are making choices about new water treatment facilities
Understand, apply, and approve innovative technologies

9. Training-Related Activities
Develop a Training Design Tool
Conduct face-to-face pilot training
Conduct web-based training events to explain the Training Design Tool
Disseminate information on the tool

10. Training Design Tool Development
Create a “Technology Characteristics and Operating Data Sheet” that will be used to gather information on a given technology
Utilize a facilitators’ outline template with detailed instructional plan
Develop slide bank templates for trainings
Provide guidance on its use to training developers
Intended for use by technical assistance providers

11. Developing the Templates
Determine the stakeholders
Group stakeholders based on information needed
Develop learning objectives – topics
Format for workshops
Participant centered

12. Determine the Stakeholders
Utilized input from RCAP’s Training Work Group
Stakeholders were listed and grouped by information needed:
Management and finance focused stakeholders – general information
Technical focused stakeholders – detailed information

13. Overall Learning Objective
Be able to participate constructively in a facilitated decision process – be able to have a discussion on the technology
The overall learning objective of this training is not to convince the attendees that this is the best technology for their system, but rather to provide them with the information that they will need in order to make informed decisions about the technology.

14. Topics for M & F stakeholders
Contaminant(s) addressed
Background on the contaminant(s)
Overview of the technology
Capital costs, O&M costs, and useful life
Required level of operator certification
Case studies – where it has been approved and utilized
Other feasible technologies

15. Topics for Technical Stakeholders
Contaminant(s) addressed
Background on the contaminant(s)
Overview of the technology
O&M details
Required level of operator certification
Other feasible technologies
Advantages and disadvantages
Capital costs, O&M costs, and useful life
Case studies – where it has been approved and utilized

16. Template Format 1.5-hour workshop Full-day workshop Less detail
Management and finance focus
Can be combined with other technologies
Full-day workshop
More detail
Technical focus
Includes site visit

17. Learning Objectives Developed for each session (10 to 60 minutes)
Use first two levels of revised Bloom’s taxonomy
Remember
Recognizing
Recalling
Understand
Interpreting
Exemplifying
Classifying
Summarizing
Inferring
Comparing
Explaining

18. Facilitators’ Outline – Instructional Plan
Schedule and topics
Detailed description of activities
Materials list (flipcharts, handouts, etc.)
Learning assessments
Pre- and post-tests
Follow-up contacts
Reference materials

19. Two Templates Developed
90-minute instructional plan and slide bank
Managerial and Financial stakeholders
Full-day instructional plan and slide bank
Technical stakeholders

20. 90-Minute Instructional PlanTemplate

21. Full-Day Instructional PlanTemplate

22. Slide Bank Templates

23. Technology Characteristics and Operating Data Sheet Developed
Collect information from:
Researchers
Vendors
Literature
EPA sources
Fill out template for training
This data sheet includes information for the decision support methodology

24. Next steps Finish the full-day slide bank template
Pilot test the training tool
Webinar on how to use the tool

25. Contact Information
Joy Barrett