hoping they will raise questions? Seriously.
hoping they will raise questions? Seriously.
Since it is Training and Doctrine I'm wondering about changing the training methods and better assessment of learning by soldiers at all levels. Where do they see education going? Are they looking at adoption of advanced distance education tools that enhance presence, education objectives, and peer-to-peer interaction? I've got questions like that.
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Please post questions - they could be read and answered here - or we may bring them up at the conference - that is really why we set this up...
on all that -- the distance learning bit being money dependent...
I think Outcome Based Training is a critical need but will be resisted by many in TRADOC citing cost as a deterrent -- the actual deterrent is that it's not easy, so trainers have to work harder...
Hi Ken,
I'm pretty sceptical about distance education myself. I've seen some really good examples of it, but I've also seen some really bad ones. There do seem to be some excellent ones in the pipeline.
The money really comes in at the start. Really good online training, depending on what you are training for , costs like crazy at the start, but the per unit delivery cost drops significantly. It's a basic software model that's operating - insane upfront cost and totally insignificant replication costs. Where the real costs come in, IMO, is in the time required to download, install and, most importantly, actively use the material.
I'm a great believer in working smarter than harder . The USAF Culture, Region and Language Program is a good example of working smarter.
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Marc W.D. Tyrrell, Ph.D.
Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies,
Senior Research Fellow,
The Canadian Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies, NPSIA
Carleton University
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Sam Liles
Selil Blog
Don't forget to duck Secret Squirrel
The scholarship of teaching and learning results in equal hatred from latte leftists and cappuccino conservatives.
All opinions are mine and may or may not reflect those of my employer depending on the chance it might affect funding, politics, or the setting of the sun. As such these are my opinions you can get your own.
It will probably work best if any questions get asked by launching them as a new thread in this forum with a descriptive short title and articulated in the first post.
Whether they get answered, we'll see.
Learning methods will progress as we learn more about a burgeoning field of study called the Human Dimension and we develop better means of training and educating Soldiers and civilians using such techniques as Outcomes- Based Training and Education. We realize that the new generation does not learn and retain the same way we Cold War Soldiers learned. For example, rather than read a scenario to a group of AIT Soldiers about to go through an exercise, we will present the scenario in video format using the Army's gaming engine, Virtual Battle Space 2, so that the scenario becomes more realistic. Gaming allows instructors to develop their own scenarios, scenarios that can be changed in real time, to illustrate points in the lesson--with only a minimal amount of training. Rather than using the old range live fire techniques, we are experimenting with Soldiers moving down a firing range to spot and engage targets as a team--building not only marksmanship but also teamwork. We have moved away from the Cold War ways of training and educating, but we still have a long way to go. As for dL, we are investigating the integration of gaming into dL, and we continue to refine our synchronous and asynchronous learning using blended (an instructor is in the loop) techniques. These new techniques and insights on teaching, training, and retaining information will be especially important as we continue to build our capability to conduct full spectrum operations--offense, defense, and stability or civil support--anywhere along the spectrum of conflict. Wherever we can, we are gleaning better ideas on how to train and educate.
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