Delivering Training and Technical Assistance - Administration for ...

BENEFITS VS. DRAWBACKS CHECKLIST YES NODoes your organization deliver the same training to multiple participant groups in multiplelocations?Has participant scheduling/attendance been an issue in past trainings?Is some or all of your instructional content purely knowledge-based?Has travel been an issue in past trainings?Are you facing budget constraints in your provision of training and technical assistance?Do your learners have access to the technologies necessary to implement online training andtechnical assistance?Are you able to give up personal, face-to-face collaboration and still achieve all of your instructionalobjectives?Analysis of ProductsThere are several free and low-cost tools that can help with both training and TA, and each has differentfeatures. The tables below highlight just a few of these available tools, broadly dividing them by function asbeing most useful for either training or collaborating.Training ToolsThese training tools are designed for giving either one-to-one or one-to-many presentations. The fewer people,the more collaborative the presentation can be. Features of the training tools include “show my screen”functionality, allowing the presenter(s) to share whatever is on their screen with everyone else, chat boxes, andthe opportunity to conduct real-time polls and evaluations.This chart summarizes the cost, security level, administrator skill level, and user skill level for each product.The administrator is the person who sets up the system and manages the technology for your organization.Users are people who would put the product to use, by conducting a training or by operating the back-end ofthe training while someone else presents.26