Special Report from Denver International Airport.
I spent this week at a Training and Readiness Standards conference in Quantico, VA. We revised and update the content standard for the training that we conduct at our school in Twentynine Palms as well as our sister schools in Gulfport, MI and Ft Sill, OK.
Quantico is home to Marine Corps University and the General A.M. Gray Research Center which is the "Library of the Marine Corps." I took advantage of this opportunity to use the Gray Center by locating and copying government reports, journal articles, and theses/dissertations regarding military training. Their index of theses and dissertations proved particularly useful since it contains not only the student products from Marine Corps University but also those from other military universities such as the Naval Post Graduate School up in Monterey. (These proved particularly useful since they offer the Master's in Education.
A couple classmates asked about SCORM. To me SCORM is like car insurance; I know I have to have it, but don't really understand it completely. Sadly, I was unable to take the class this term since I'm already taking 12 units. What I know about SCORM is that it is mandated by the Department of Defense for all Interactive Multimedia Instruction. If DoD is paying a contractor or other vendor to develop courseware for use online the statement of work must specify that the deliverable be compliant with the current version of SCORM. As I understand it, this ensures that a given learning object will work on any number of platforms and learning management systems. For our purposes, SCORM is a relatively pain-free requirement because we have chosen an authorware package that has SCORM built-in. We chose Articulate, but it is very similar to Camtasia; you just chose the SCORM radio button before you finalize or export your movie and you're done. The requirement to use SCORM combined with the ease of creating PowerPoints makes Articulate an obvious authorware choice for my project.
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