Archive for the ‘Military’ Category

Using Technologies to Enhance Warfighter Training and Effectiveness

Colonel Matthew Clarke currently serves as the commander of the Sergeant First Class Paul Ray Smith Simulation and Training Technology Center (STTC) in Orlando, Fla., a subordinate organization under the U.S. Army Research Laboratory’s Human, Research and Engineering Directorate. He assumed his duties in June 2012, after serving as the assistant to the director – […]

EDUCATION NAVIGATOR: Helping Sailors Chart a Course for Success: Interview with Dr. Mary Redd-Clary Director Navy Voluntary Education Program Center for Personal and Professional Development

As director of the Navy Voluntary Education (VOLED) Program, Dr. Mary Redd-Clary is responsible for the supervision of over 180 government personnel assigned to the Virtual Education Center, the Pensacola VOLED support detachment, and 35 Navy college offices located in the continental U.S., Asia, the Middle East and Europe. She also oversees the execution of […]

Military career skills program for spouses under scrutiny

Dana Kendall adored her dog, Toni, but struggled to manage the brindle-coated pit bull terrier she rescued from dog-fighting. The dog was unruly, had not been housebroken and did not respond to simple commands.USA TodayFull Article

Engaging and Informing Military Educators

Linda Frank is the director of Veteran and Military Education at Empire State College, where she manages military and veterans’ education programs and services across the college’s 34 locations, including the Center for Distance Learning, which serves students online in New York, nationally and internationally. Military Advanced EducationFull Interview

Army, Navy and National Guard first to venture onto Pinterest

Several U.S. military agencies have taken the first leaps to establish a presence on the rapidly-growing Pinterest social media website—but it can be difficult to tell apart the agencies’ official “pinboards” and “pins” on the site from those created by fans. Federal Computer WeekFull Article

INVESTED COUNSELOR: Making Soldiers’ Education Goals His Education Goals

Gordon D. Nero serves as the director, Education Services Specialist for the Army Continuing Education System (ACES), Kuwait, where he is responsible for the planning, directing and coordinating of all activities required to accomplish the ACES program mission at camps throughout Kuwait.SOURCE: Military Advanced EducationRead the Interview

U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command Selects Blackboard Learn for Expanded Training Program 1

More Than 150,000 Soldiers Annually Will Train on Blackboard PlatformSOURCE: PR NewsireRead the Press Release

Army to shut down eArmyU

The eArmyU civilian education option that has provided distance learning support services to 64,000 soldiers over the past decade will be shuttered next year.SOURCE: Army Times Read the Full Article

Bring Rifles and Books: College on a U.S. Base in Baghdad

BAGHDAD — It makes for a strange college campus: Cement blast walls, helicopters roaring overhead, packs of wild dogs howling, the risk of mortar and rocket attacks. Faculty keep Kevlar flak jackets at the ready. Students bring their rifles to class and leave them on the floor with the barrel pointing toward the front of […]

Distance learning expanding in Department of Defense

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Every seven seconds, someone within the Defense Department completes an online training course through a program that’s become the gold standard for delivering education and training anywhere, any time.Read the Full Article