Development of a ComputerBased Training Tool: Ice Tutor

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Development of a Computer-Based Training
ToolIce Tutor

• Dean Flett and Sheila Bourque, Canadian Ice
  Service

IICWG-II, Reykjavik, Iceland, 3-5 October, 2001
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Why CBT?

• CIS has low staff turnover - ad hoc training
• varied student entry level
• trainees geographically spread
• content delivered in 1/2 time with CBT
• standardization is important
• self-paced learning - can start anytime
• highly modular - updates and amendments easy to
  do - can also structure individual programs
• can be used as refresher training

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Training Development Cycle

• Needs Analysis
• Task Analysis
• Knowledge and Skills Inventory
• Instructional Strategies
• Design
• Pilot
• Evaluation

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Ice Tutor 1.0 - Features

• For beginner to intermediate levels
• interactive exercises and review tests with
  feedback to reinforce subject matter
• user-friendly navigation including bookmarking
• individual student tracking and scoring
• review tests, final tests, glossary
• appeals to visual and kinesthetic learners

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Ice Tutor 1.0 - Content

• VISUAL ICE RECOGNITION
• identification of various ice types, forms,
  concentrations, and arrangements
• SAR IMAGERY INTERPRETATION
• SAR Imaging of Sea Ice and Image Interpretation
  Techniques
• Radar Remote Sensing
• RADARSAT-1
• Interpreting SAR Imagery in the Gulf of St.
  Lawrence and Canadian East Coast
• Regional Considerations
• Interpret Sea ice Types
• Interpret Sea Ice Formations and Openings
• Interpreting SAR Imagery in the Canadian Arctic
• same as Gulf/East Coast with addition of Melt
  Season interpretation

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Ice Tutor 1.0 - Example
Reproduced by permission of Noetix Research Inc.
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Ice Tutor 1.0 - Example
Reproduced by permission Noetix Research Inc.,
RADARSAT, CSA
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The Future

• CIS and NIC working in partnership with Noetix
  Research
• 3 new modules
• Ice Physics
• Remote Sensing
• AVHRR, OLS, SSM/I
• Geography
• similar functionality and feel