Marine Corps College of Continuing Education

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Marine Corps College of Continuing Education

• Implementation Fest 2008
• Mr. Terence Kerrigan
• Director, CCE

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Agenda

• Introduce the Marine Corps Team
• Organization/Mission
• What we do and how we deliver it
• Transforming our officer Distance Education
  programs
• Enduring challenges

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The Marine Dream Team

• Mr. Larry Smith- Technical Director
• Capt Melissa Chestnut- MarineNet Officer
• Mr. Dennis Chinault- Operations Officer
• Capt Jim Lester- Infrastructure Officer
• LtCol Mike Pitts- Head, E-Courseware Dev
• Ms. Susan Akers- Deputy, E-Courseware Dev
• Mr Steve Kunkel- Project Lead
• Ms. Anne Sullivan- PM TRASYS APM for ADL
• NOC- Mr. Eric Bose- NAVAIR PM and Mr. Mike
  Rodriguez BAH PM
• Ms. Sara Foley, PM, Ms Nancy Cabrera and Mr. Mike
  Pack- MITRE

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Command Relationships
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The Mission of the College of Continuing Education
Design, Develop, Deliver, Evaluate, Manage and
Resource Distance Learning Products and Programs
across the Marine Corps Training and Education
Continuum in order to increase operational
readiness.
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MarineNet TECOM Asset Key Enabler
Filling the gaps and seams in the TE Continuum
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What We Do

• Electronic Courseware Development
• Manage Electronic Delivery Systems
• Oversee/Manage MarineNet
• Develop and Manage Officer
• Distance PME Seminar Programs
• V. Service level representation on DADLAT

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Courseware Development- Snapshot

• -Over 2000 electronic courses
• -over 150 custom-built courses
• -First generation courses built to AICC
  std
• -Second generation courses built to SCORM
  1.2 std
• Courses currently in development
• FEAs conducted first (DoDI 1322.26)
• built to SCORM 2004 ver 3 std

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Multiple customers different needs

• DL to replace resident instruction
• Information Assurance
• DL alone to fill a gap where no resident
  instruction exists
• Common combat skills and most of the skill
  progression courses now handled mostly through
  OJT
• DL to serve as refresher course or initial MOS
  qualification for reservists
• Combat Engineer Officer course
• DL to serve as primer before resident instruction
  
• Joint Terminal Attack Controller Primer
• Combat Lifesaver

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Goal of DL Support to COE
Prerequisite Distance Learning
Instructor-Led Classroom
Distance Learning Performance Support
Learning Continuum
Knowledge
Refresher/Sustainment Training
Provide a desired prerequisite knowledge level
IOT decrease the amount of time in resident
school
Continuous Learning Support
Student 4
Student 3
Student 2
Student 1
Time
Prerequisite Distance Learning
Classroom
On-the-Job
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MarineNet Course Completions and Enrollments
550,000
350,000
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Distance Learning InfrastructureProviding the
Access
Desktop
Learning Resource Centers
Video Tele-Training
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CCE Learning Resource Center Utilization
181,137
119,306
111,016
133,517
224,594
9021
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MarineNet- 2008-Tomorrow

• LMS Centralized Service Oriented Architecture
  Consisting of Multiple COTS Products Integrated
  Together
• Rustici SCORM Engine
• Questionmark Perception Assessment Tool
• SQL 2005 Database
• All Customizations in Separate Module written in
  MS .NET 2.0 - operational- Fall 2007
• Web-based Interface no client software
  requirements except standard plug-ins

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Officer Distance PME
Back
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Officer DPME Transformation
Transform Correspondence course-based program to
a Seminar-based program employing technology that
increases student access to and interaction with
adjunct faculty and other students. OPERATIONAL-
Summer 2007

• Execute Registrar and testing capability via
  MarineNet
• Expand on-site and on-line seminar capabilities
• On site
• VTT
• Asynchronous seminars via Blackboard
• Look to add synchronous,on-line seminar by FY-11
• Expand and refine adjunct faculty development
• Increase incorporation of electronic courseware

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Challenges

• Balancing different customers different needs
• Current high operational tempo
• SME availability
• Re-visiting old courseware for SCORM
  re-modeling
• Cultural bias against DL is present but improving
• The Key- deliver high quality products that
  fulfill real requirements/content relevance
• ADL- future bill payer for other higher priority
  OM requirements?

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Questions?
MarineNet
SMART, AGILE, EXPEDITIONARY
MarineNet www.marinenet.usmc.mil MarineNet Help
Desk (888-435-8762)
College of Continuing Education www.tecom.usmc.mi
l/cce CCE Help Desk [phone]