Transforming Learning Henry Kelly Federation of American Scientists Transforming Learning Henry Kelly Federation of American Scientists NDIA National Security Science and Technology Workforce Division July 17, 2007

Increase in what must be learned Increase in what must be learned Increased diversity in the people who must learn Increased diversity in the people who must learn Highly constrained resources Highly constrained resources The Challenge This can’t be done with incremental change!

New Tools for Learning  It’s Personal  It’s Active  It’s Available Any time Anywhere  It invites collaboration and continuous improvement

The Opportunity Revolution in Pedagogy: back to the basics Revolution in Pedagogy: back to the basics Revolution in Assessment: authentic, motivating, multi- dimensional Revolution in Assessment: authentic, motivating, multi- dimensional Revolution in the way learning systems are built and operated Revolution in the way learning systems are built and operated allow specialties to developallow specialties to develop competitioncompetition

Continue to establish and operate an affordable, on-demand, global Web-based individual training capability Continue building the live, virtual, and constructive (LVC) integrated and distributed joint training environment for export on a global scale Provide the Total Force with the training and education needed to be adaptable, agile, operationally effective, and fully integrated. expand to include the development and support of adaptability-related learning opportunities. Develop and promulgate a set of standardized interfaces to integrate emerging service advanced instrumentation and simulation systems across the live, virtual, and constructive domains in air, ground, and maritime operating environments.

Persistent Online Environments World of Warcraft 6.6 million registered users World of Warcraft 6.6 million registered users Second Life 4.5 million users Second Life 4.5 million users Sony BigLittlePlanet Sony BigLittlePlanet Google Earth Google Earth

Collaborative Design Interoperability and simple authoring tools Interoperability and simple authoring tools Open architectures Open architectures Certification and peer review Certification and peer review Integrating proprietary and open source materials Integrating proprietary and open source materials Payment systems (virtual spaces & real people) Payment systems (virtual spaces & real people) Security, privacy, age-appropriate Security, privacy, age-appropriate

Policy Peer review (bugs & content) Peer review (bugs & content) IP and ownership/payment issues IP and ownership/payment issues Security Security Privacy Privacy Durability Durability

Next Steps Collaboration in choosing a common framework for an initial experiment Collaboration in choosing a common framework for an initial experiment Federal agency collaborationFederal agency collaboration Corporate and other private sectorCorporate and other private sector Public and private school systemsPublic and private school systems Starting a spiral development cycle Starting a spiral development cycle Experimenting with courses easy to transferExperimenting with courses easy to transfer Experimenting with collaboration and reuseExperimenting with collaboration and reuse Rapid move from RDT&E to practiceRapid move from RDT&E to practice

Starting the Innovation Engine We are Here

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