The Center brings a customer-based approach to devising comprehensive training, education, and technical assistance programs. The Center’s most important function is to share information and develop training materials on project finance for surface transportation improvements. The Center will develop and deliver an array of learning platforms for capacity building and training geared toward target audiences with varying levels of technical knowledge and different needs. These products will be developed to address the objectives of the target audiences, their base knowledge, areas of interest, and their preferences for instructor-led or self-directed learning.
| Peer Exchanges | Expert Panel Sessions | Webinars | Workshops/Training Seminars | Website Resources | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Description | Gatherings of technical experts from different organizations who perform similar technical roles, consultants who support them, academics, and other stakeholders who desire to learn from them. | Roundtable, facilitated discussion among senior personnel from different organizations on a thematic topic. | Interactive, online conferences or workshops where a speaker(s) discusses a technical topic, usually with an accompanying slide presentation, web tour, or video stream. Participants join the webinar from disparate remote locations through an Internet connection that allows real-time communication from the sender to multiple receivers. | Structured gatherings of technical colleagues to exchange information on thematic topics. They often involve panel presentations, question and answer sessions, group exercises, and in some cases, breakout discussion groups to explore narrower topics. | Online comprehensive practitioner’s resource for project finance capacity building. |
| Learning Objective | Implementation & application | Implementation | High-level topical overview | Industry knowledge sharing; best practices | In-depth topic analysis and reference data |
| Content Type/Format | Instruction, discussion & activity | Instruction & discussion | Presentation and Q&A | Discussion & presentation | Online technical content and information |
| Length | 1/2 hour-2 days | 1/2 hour-1 day | 1-1.5 hours | 1-2 days | As determined by reader |
| Format | Instructor led | Facilitator led | Instructor led | Facilitator led | Self-directed |
| Delivery | Discussion with group activities | Presentation and discussion | Presentation with visual and video | Discussion | Online |
In-Person
Workshops.
Structured gatherings of technical colleagues to exchange information on thematic topics. They often involve panel presentations, question and answer sessions, group exercises, and in some cases, breakout discussion groups to explore narrower topics.
Expert Panel Sessions.
Roundtable, facilitated discussion among senior personnel from different organizations on a thematic topic.
Peer Exchanges.
Gatherings of technical experts from different organizations who perform similar technical roles, consultants who support them, academics, and other stakeholders who desire to learn from them.
Training Seminars.
Teaching forums of customizable length where a team of technical and/or policy experts leads the participants through a series of sessions that begin with background information and then proceed to illustrate the use of different types of analysis or tools, and provide detailed how-to information on the actual conduct of analysis or tools for use by practitioners.
Online
Webinars.
Interactive, online conferences or workshops where a speaker(s) discusses a technical topic, usually with an accompanying slide presentation, web tour, or video stream. Participants join the webinar from disparate remote locations through an Internet connection that allows real-time communication from the sender to multiple receivers.
Website.
Online comprehensive practitioner’s resource for project finance capacity building.
