Title: College of Distance Education
1College of Distance Education
CDE Programs Brief for DLCC 11 September 2007
Professor Tim Jackson Director Professor Walt
Wildemann Deputy Director
2 College of Distance Education
CDE established by General Order 89 of 01 April
1914 to conduct extension courses for the
benefit of officers who are not available for
attendance at the college. Josephus Daniels
Secretary of the Navy
3CDE Functions
- Extend the reach of the NWC by providing
educational opportunities and options to eligible
students anytime and anywhere. - Encourage and enable students to complete their
Navy and Joint Professional Military Education.
4CDE Tasks
- Offer tailored versions of the College of Naval
Command and Staff program through faculty-led
seminars, mentored and directed study, and
Web-enabled and CD ROM-based correspondence
courses. - Use distance learning methods to match the
learning needs and styles of our students.
5College of Distance Education
College of Distance Education
- Intermediate Level Programs
- Fleet Seminar Program (FSP)
- NWC-at-Naval Postgraduate School Program
- Web-enabled Program
- CD/ROM-based Program
- Primary PME/JPME May 2006
- Senior Level Program POM 10 Issue
- Enlisted PME Sep 07
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6College of Distance Education
College of Distance Education
- The CDE Team
- 39 Full-time faculty
- 24 in Newport
- 14 in Monterey
- 1 in Washington D.C.
- 85-100 Adjunct part-time faculty
- FSP professors
- Web professors
- Contract graders
- 18 Civilian staff assistants
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7NWC/CDE Total FSP Enrollment 1074 NWC
at NPS 310 Web/CD
ROM programs 647/601 Master Degree Program
417 Total 3049
Locations Enrollment September 2006
Bangor (16)
Great Lakes (17)
Newport (65)
Everett (11)
Whidbey (17)
Annapolis (66)
Washington, DC (368)
Fort Meade (57)
Patuxent River (22)
Monterey (310)
Norfolk (129)
Dahlgren (14)
Pt. Hueneme (22)
San Diego (81)
Mayport (20)
Jacksonville (42)
Pensacola (19)
New Orleans (19)
Dallas/FT Worth (22)
Pearl Harbor (64)
Enrollment for Academic Year 2006-2007
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9Navy PME ContinuumWhere we are today
NON-RESIDENT
NON-RESIDENT
10 Totals
2950
3070
3550
3670
4710
4710
4710
4710
4710
4710
11Fleet Seminar Program
- Established in 1974 PAJE accredited in 1991and
re- - affirmed in 1998 and 2004
- Replicates resident methodology in weekly evening
- seminars using tailored curricula requiring
the same - learning outcomes.
- Delivers NWC Diploma and
- intermediate level NPME
- and JPME I
- M.A. option offered in 2001
12Fleet Seminar Program
- Three core courses taught by Adjunct Professors
- under yearly contract at 19 sites in U.S.
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- CDE Resident faculty assess and also teach
- annual Adjunct conference in August at NWC
- August-May AY of 35 weeks seminars meet
- one night per week for 3 hours
- 1047 students 06-07 capacity for 1200
13Fleet Seminar MA Program
- Established in 2001 after NEASC approval for M.A.
- Three core courses plus three approved electives
for 30 total credits required - FSP students must apply and be accepted in a
separate process after completion of first core
course electives are taken on their own after
approval
14NWC at NPS
- Established in 1999
- Delivers NWC CDE diploma and intermediate
- level NPME and JPME I
- PAJE accredited in October 2004
- Taught by NWC faculty organized in 4 quarter-
- long courses (SP/NSDM/JMO I/JMO II)
- Embedded in 21 of 28 URL curricula integrated
in - NPS scheduling program
15Web-enabled Program
- Three core courses taught online using Blackboard
LMS - Designed for completion in 18 months
- Delivers NWC CDE Diploma and intermediate level
- NPME and JPME I PAJE accredited October 2004
- Students in 20-person cohorts interact with
professor - each other in asynchronous mode 1110 quotas
in FY07 - Awarded the Crystal Award by the Association
for - Electronic Communications and Technology (AECT)
16CD ROM-based Program
- Provides flexibility and increased access to PME
for all Navy officers O-3 and above active and
reserve - Delivers NWC CDE Diploma and intermediate level
NPME and JPME I PAJE accredited in October 2004 - Maritime focus/not internet dependent/CDs and
texts - About 12-14 months of student effort at 4-6 hours
- weekly
- 600 new quotas per year about 900 students at
any time
17Primary PME (Officer)
- A broad cross-community view of the Navy, and an
introduction to Joint warfare designed for O-1 to
O-3 - Know and Comprehend levels of learning at the
Operational and Tactical levels of war - 70-hour, integrated course on NKO divided into 7
blocks of 135 lessons with quiz at end of each - Proposed as prerequisite for entry into
Intermediate level PME and promotion to O-4 -
18Primary PME (Enlisted)
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- Tailoring of PPME(O) course for E7-8 deleting
some officer material and adding CPO material - Online and available February 2007 over 3000
students registered as of today - Proposed prerequisite for entry to SEA
19Enlisted PME Courses
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- Enlisted Introductory (E-1 to E-4) and Enlisted
Basic (E-5/6) courses scheduled for delivery on
NKO in FY08 - Contracts awarded for curriculum transition to
electronic mode on NKO - SMEs at CDE and others developing curriculum now
on schedule for 2nd quarter FY08 delivery
20Reserve Component Topics
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- NWC includes RC officers part and parcel in the
PME continuum - CDE Programs are the education of choiceor
circumstancefor RC officers - Increase of RC officers over last few years from
10 to about 20 of CDE students in our budgeted
programs - RC special courses begun on demand
- Dallas/Fort Worth in FSP
- Web Cohorts
- CDROM seats
21Summary
- CDE intermediate-level programs derived from, and
- parallel to, the resident programs accredited
for JPME I - M.A.
- All programs provides flexible and accessible
education - to the students where they work and live.
a model programsets a tremendous standard for
other institutions to emulate.
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