Distance Learning Coordination Committee DLCC

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Distance Learning Coordination Committee (DLCC)

• MECC W/G Briefing
• 25 April 2007

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Agenda

• Annual DLCC Conference
• Future Conferences
• Service Capabilities Lessons
• SCORM
• Business Practices
• Style Guide
• Content Access
• FOUO
• CAC
• OPMEP Changes
• JKDDC
• EMERC Participation

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DLCC Conference

• Topic Culture and Language at a Distance
• 20-22 March at NPS in Monterey, CA
• Macro agenda
• Day 1 AM foundation
• Da1 PM Players (JKDDC, ADL, SOCOM)
• Day 2 AM Players (Service briefs)
• Day 2 PM realm of the possible (vendor briefs)

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Why Culture and Language

• DJS comments at November MECC
• Everyone likes language because it is
  measurable. We make it Language (big L) and
  culture (little c) instead of vice versa. We
  need to change that paradigm and start thinking
  about how to measure, or what items are
  measurable WRT culture.
• At the next MECC, lets discuss ideas for
  cultural awareness training what are the trade
  offs, what help do you need at JS or OSD to make
  it happen, etc.

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Measurements Trade Offs

• Two elements of measurement
• Cognitive
• Knowledge and comprehension
• Necessary for later application
• Affective
• Valuing and beyond
• May call for expansion of OPMEP to include
  Affective domain
• Trade Offs
• Zero sum game
• May be able to apply DL to make learning
  available
• DOD should break language and culture apart
• Above our pay grade

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Future Conferences

• Offers venue for DLCC to focus on a topic
• ROI is questioned
• Looking at multiple options
• Linking spring DLCC meeting to another conference
• Running conference on 2- or 3-year cycle
• Combination

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Service Capabilities Lessons

• Service lead agent develops lesson
• All MECC schools are in the initial stages of
  development
• Members will send what they have to JFSC and we
  will post for review and discussion
• JFSC identified 46 AJPME lessons
• 27 have potential for sharing
• 11 are questionable
• 8 are not probable

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SCORM

• Business Practices
• Adopted 18 practices to facilitate sharing across
  the MECC
• Looking at 4 more over time
• Style Guide
• JKDDC has a style guide we will use for reference
• June meeting planned for instructional designers
  to address common approaches for style

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Content Access

• FOUO
• Some areas of curricula are becoming difficult to
  teach without FOUO references (Force Protection)
• FOUO is limited for DL applications
• DLCC will develop recommendation for next MECC WG
• CAC Access
• Cannot access JDEIS from home without CAC (long
  term)
• More Services are making CAC readers available to
  personnel
• Requires static IP address
• DLCC has no solution

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OPMEP Direction

• JPME Learning Objectives. Non-resident programs
  must meet the JPME learning objectives assigned
  to their respective resident institutions.
  Non-resident curricula and related educational
  products and materials should derive from and
  closely parallel the Program of Instruction
  (POI)/curriculum of their respective resident
  institutions. The differences between the two
  types of programs are primarily in the specific
  delivery methodology and techniques employed to
  achieve the PME and JPME learning objectives.

Enclosure B, paragraph 6.c.
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OPMEP Changes
JPME Dynamic Tension
In-Residence
In-Residence
DL
DL
DODI 1322.26
DL
DL
In-Residence
In-Residence
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JKDDC

• JKDDC would like a conduit between JPME and
  training
• Format of JPME makes that unfeasible
• Can use JPME as common portal for information
  about JPME opportunities
• Learning Management System (LMS)
• JKDDC using Atlas Pro (GOTS system)
• Offered it for use to anyone needing an LMS
• Hosting
• JKDDC offered to host content

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EMERC Participation

• MECC W/G approved EMERC participation with DLCC
• EMERC W/G elected to participate as
  adjunct/observer
• Maintains separation between EPMEP and OPMEP
• EMERC will maintain awareness of DL issues via
  the DLCC
• They will address any DL issues via a separate
  body

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Conclusions

• Culture and Language conference a success
• BZ to NPS team for their support
• A number of issues identified that will be
  reconciled by the next meeting
• Next meeting planned for week of 17 September
• Site Leavenworth or Quantico

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Questions?
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Back-up slides
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Conference Agenda (Tuesday)
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Conference Agenda (Wednesday)
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DLCC Meeting Agenda (Thursday)
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Business Practices3 levels of agreement

• Incorporate
• Next Phase
• Reject

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Incorporating

• Naming Schema
• Content Granularity
• Content Packaging
• Metadata
• ADL-Registry Client
• Content Labeling
• Course Resources

• Versioning
• Points of Contact
• Reuse Metrics
• Plug-ins
• Repository Access
• Intellectual Property
• 508 Compliance

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Next Phase

• Sequencing Navigation
• Style Guide
• GUI
• Taxonomy

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Rejects

• Learning Level
• Interactivity Level
• Source Files
• Other Content