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U -- DEVELOP TRAINING MODEL CURRICULUM SOL NLM 98-114/LTN DUE 093098 POC Liem T. Nguyen, Contract Specialist, 301-496-6546, Karen D. Riggs, Contracting Officer, 301-496-6127 The National Library of Medicine (NLM) intends to fund follow-on work performed by the SPRY Foundation, 10 G Street N.E., Suite 600, Washington, DC 20002, to further extend and refine the testing and development of a curriculum to teach older adults how to use the Internet/www to access quality health information. The SPRY Foundation has completed previous work in this area for NLM. The SPRY Foundation has developed a methodology and tested elements of a model curriculum, as well as developed a training program for trainers which has had preliminary trials in 20 sites around the U.S. These new activities will build on the outcome of these previous activities. In the follow-on work, NLM is requiring the vendor to use its technical and field experience to further develop the curriculum as follows: 1) to analyze the field results of the training materials which were tested in the Train the Trainers program and identify key components to be included in a formalized curriculum; 2) initiate development of a Training Curriculum organized into four levels of competence [i.e. Beginner Student, Intermediate Student, Advanced Student, and Trainers level] designed to be used to train older adults how to use the Internet/www to access quality health information; 3) design a Screening Tool to assess an adult student's level of computer/Internet competence prior to participating in the training program. All documents will be completed by the SPRY Foundation in print form. However, they will be designed in such a way that they can be easily placed into a html format, for possible future conversion of the curriculum onto the Internet/www. The final products are due to be completed and provided to the NLM Program Officer by February, 1999. Following an internal NLM review and approval of the curriculum, SPRY will have the curriculum presented and reviewed by the participants at a special session during the March 25-26, 1999 conference at NIH entitled: "Old Adults/Health Information/and the World Wide Web. The SPRY Foundation is the only source who can successfully meet the following requirements within the required time schedule. Any other source would have to duplicate the effort already made by The SPRY Foundation. This is a sole source acquisition. This is not a Request for Quotations (RFQ) nor is an RFQ available. ***** Posted 09/14/98 (W-SN249480). (0257)

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