Modernizing Learning: Advanced Distributed Learning

JJ Vogel-Walcutt · Sae Schatz

Jun 2019 · Government Printing Office

About this ebook

Modernizing Learning: Building the Future Learning Ecosystem is an implementation blueprint for connecting learning experiences across time and space. This co-created plan represents an advancement of how and where learning will occur in the future. Extensive learning and technological research has been conducted across the myriad disciplines and communities needed to develop this holistic maturation of the learning continuum. These advancements have created the opportunity for formal and informal learning experiences to be accessible anywhere, anytime, and to be personalized to individual needs. However, for full implementation and maximal benefits for learners of all ages and within all communities to be achieved, it is necessary to centralize and coordinate the required connections across technology, learning science, and the greater supporting structures. Accordingly, the ADL Initiative has taken the lead in this coordination process, connecting Government, Military, Academia, Industry, and K-12 teachers, instructors, technologists, researchers, and implementers to create and execute a coordinated transition process. Input was included from stakeholders, communities, and supporting entities which will be involved in this advancement of the life-long learning ecosystem.

 

About the author

ABOUT THE AUTHOR/AGENCY:
The Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative is a government program reporting to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Education and Training (DASD(FE&T)).  The ADL Initiative bridges across Defense and other Federal agencies to encourage collaboration, facilitate interoperability, and promote best practices for using distributed learning to provide the highest-quality education, training, informal learning, and just-in-time support; tailored to individual needs and delivered cost-effectively, anytime and anywhere, to increase readiness.  Dr. Sae Schatz is the Director of ADL.  She is a human-systems scientist, with an emphasis on human cognition and learning, instructional technologies, adaptive systems, human performance assessment and modeling and simulation. Dr. JJ Walcutt serves as the Director of Innovation at the ADL Initiative, helping them create and implement innovative methods for developing and disseminating future-focused learning science and technology advancements.