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Phase 3

During Phase-3: Distance Mentoring by Online Coaches & Consultants, using the Internet/Web-based distance learning methods and facilities, will be provided to facilitate and support participants to practice their newly acquired training skills, and to develop their training curricula/modules in their respective home-base/training institution. More specifically the following activities, among others, will be carried out during a 6-month period:

  1. Each participant will be assigned an Online Coach, and 4-6 participants will be assigned to a Virtual Working Group which will also be supported by Online Consultants (i.e., resource persons with various training methodology specialization). Participants will be assigned to the Working Group, based on the training subject-matter/topic of interests (i.e., health-related issues, environment, economic management, agriculture, etc.).

  2. A structured work plan based on an inventory-analysis of specific training competencies will be prepared by each participant in consultation with his/her assigned online coach, with specific "project" tasks/activities to be completed at a certain period (e.g., work progress will be monitored and reviewed every two-weeks by the online coaches, etc.). Reports on the progress and results of participants' individual work will be posted every month through a Website so that participants, coaches and consultants can learn from, comment, and help improve each other's work. Participants can at any time request specific comments and advise from his assigned online coaches and/or online consultants.

  3. In practicing and completing the "project tasks" at his/her own training institution, each participant should be assisted by at least two or three of his/her colleagues who are subject matter specialists, training materials developers, trainers, etc. This Training Improvement Team should develop improved training strategies, curricula, methods and/or learning modules and, if possible, validate their relevance and appropriateness by trying out or pretesting such learning activities or products with the intended target audience of the training course to be offered by their training institution.

  4. Workshop participants are expected to report their Phase-3 activities, summarizing the accomplishments, including the lessons learned and best practices from such experiences, to their workshop peers during the next meeting in Bangkok, Thailand (see Phase-4).