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  title info:
    title: Enhancing critical thinking skills for Army leaders using blended-learning methods
  name:
    name part: Straus, Susan G.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Arroyo Center
  name:
    name part: Rand Corporation
  name:
    name part: JSTOR (Organization)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xxxiv, 134 pages) : illustrations.
  abstract: The U.S. Army's Command and General Staff School offers its Advanced Operations Course (AOC) for junior field-grade officers using both traditional resident instruction and a model referred to as blended distributed learning (BDL). The BDL course lasts 12 months and uses a variety of information and communication technologies to support synchronous and asynchronous collaboration among students and instructors entirely at a distance, with most students completing the course on discretionary time. This report assesses the effectiveness of AOC-BDL based on student and graduate surveys and identifies best practices for BDL from empirical research and case studies. Results show that the course has a number of strengths and that students were generally satisfied with the course. However, student responses also suggest that improvements are needed to support computer-supported cooperative learning and collaboration in distributed teams, particularly for instruction and collaboration on complex tasks. Furthermore, while students were satisfied with instruction for some operational topics, their responses may indicate needs for improvement in instruction of critical field-grade competencies, such as the military decision making process, problem solving, and communication skills, and in teaching leadership skills corresponding to a range of operational environments. Case studies and the research literature point to a number of best practices and options for improvement. Adding a resident segment may offer the greatest potential for improvement but may not be feasible in this context. Alternatives for improvement include modifying the composition of student teams to alleviate coordination challenges, moving the course delivery platform to a dotcom to improve technology reliability and functionality, and addressing policy to ensure that the chain of command and employers provided dedicated time for students to work on the course.
  table of contents: Introduction -- The Blended Distributed Learning Advanced Operations Course -- Satisfaction and Perceived Learning Effectiveness in the Blended Distributed Learning Advanced Operations Course -- Literature Review and Case Studies of Blended Distributed Learning -- Conclusions and Options for Improvement -- Appendix A: Intermediate-Level Education Advanced Operations Course Blocks, Learning Objectives, and Cognitive Levels of Learning -- Appendix B: Psychometric Properties of Exit and Postgraduate Surveys -- Appendix C: Proposed Exit Survey Questions -- Appendix D: Case Study Interview Questions.
  note: Susan G. Straus, Michael G. Shanley, Maria C. Lytell, James C. Crowley, Sarah H. Bana, Megan Clifford, Kristin J. Leuschner.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-134).
  note: The research described in this report was sponsored by the United States Army under Contract No. W74V8H-06-C-0001.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Army
    topic: Officers
    topic: Training of
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Army.
  subject:
    topic: Military education
    topic: Technological innovations
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Blended learning
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Distance education
    geographic: United States
    topic: Computer-assisted instruction
  subject:
    topic: LAW
    topic: Torts
  subject:
    topic: Armed Forces
    topic: Officers
    topic: Training of
  subject:
    topic: Blended learning
  subject:
    topic: Distance education
    topic: Computer-assisted instruction
  subject:
    topic: Military education
    topic: Technological innovations
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  classification: U408.3 .S84 2013
  classification: 355.5/5
  related item:
    title info:
      title: RAND Corporation research report series ; RR172
  identifier: 9780833081988
  identifier: 0833081985
  identifier: 9780833079091
  identifier: 0833079093
  identifier: 22573/ctt4bmt3r JSTOR
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: DID
    record creation date: 130718
    record change date: 20260728172434.4
    record identifier: in00003909472
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng