Air Force acquisition training moves to virtual schoolhouse.The Air Force Institute of Technology's Virtual Schoolhouse is offering online training to service personnel seeking to learn about the Air Force acquisition process. "The schoolhouse currently has 19 courses online, with five more in development and two under consideration," said Maj. Michele Gaudreault, AFIT AFIT Air Force Institute of Technology AFIT Armed Forces Institute of Transfusion (Rawalpindi, Pakistan) AFIT Arizona Forum for the Improvement of Taxation advanced distributed learning Distributed Learning means a method of instruction that relies primarily on indirect communication between students and teachers, including internet or other electronic-based delivery, teleconferencing or correspondence; (British Columbia, School Act, 2006). branch chief at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 8,023 acres (3,247 hectares), W Ohio, NE of Dayton; est. 1917. One of the largest airport installations in the world, it is the air force's main research and development base, and the headquarters of the , Ohio. Courses include acquisition strategy, product support planning and execution, engineering and science, financial management and technology. "The courses provide continuous learning points, which are required to maintain one's acquisition certification," she said. At the Web site https://www.vsh.afit.edu/, Gaudreault said students can access the catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. of online courses, self-register for courses or log into the schoolhouse and take a course. "Our students are literally around the world," Gaudreault said. "So no matter where one is, if they have access to the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the , they can access the schoolhouse and their courses." Once a student completes a course, she said, the course remains accessible to the student, "sort of like an electronic course book." "The difference between this and a hardcopy course book is that as our courses are updated to reflect the latest changes in acquisition policy, the students' electronic course book is also updated, because they are accessing the real course, not copies of a course given several months ago," she said. Since May, Ronald Stanberry, a logistics manager in the B-1B Lancer system support manager division here, has accumulated ac·cu·mu·late v. ac·cu·mu·lat·ed, ac·cu·mu·lat·ing, ac·cu·mu·lates v.tr. To gather or pile up; amass. See Synonyms at gather. v.intr. To mount up; increase. more than 100 hours through the AFIT's Virtual Schoolhouse. "Because I attend many meetings for the B-1B community concerning areas [about which] I didn't have any previous knowledge, I wanted to understand their process so I could benefit my section better," he said. "The AFIT Virtual Schoolhouse made available education on Air Force-related courses that I would otherwise have to go [on temporary duty] to accomplish," he said. "This has made me better at my job and has allowed me to expand my training beyond my career field, with no lost time on my present job or use of limited TDY TDY abbr. temporary duty funds." |
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