The Army Science of Learning Workshop (CD-ROM)

Abstract : ELECTRONIC FILE CHARACTERISTICS: 5 files; Adobe Acrobat (.PDF). PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 CD-ROM and 1 hard copy document; 4 3/4 in.; 26.6 MB. ABSTRACT: At the request of TRADOC, ARI brought together key stakeholders in Army training and education together with experts from academia, industry, and other Military Services for a 3-day workshop. The purpose of this workshop was to identify learning science findings and technologies to help the Army train Soldiers and grow leaders for today and tomorrow. Ninety-five individual workshop participants were divided into four working groups that discussed four distinct problems in training. The following are some of the more notable findings and recommendations from those four working groups: (a) Learning Model-try out an instructional development and execution strategy that is grounded in the science of learning; (b) Develop Leaders-integrate social networks, communities of practice, and Army Knowledge Online (AKO) as an electronic supplement to socialization and relationship building; (c) Train Soldiers-use distance learning (dL) to accelerate training, reduce costs and personnel requirements and to improve operational effectiveness without adversely affecting Soldiers or their families; and (d) Future Capabilities-maintain a robust agenda of multidisciplinary research to include (but not be limited to) the following general topic areas: learning and performance, social and cultural behavior, human-machine performance, predictive models of readiness and performance, and collective performance modeling.