Learning Asset Integration (LAI) initiative.The Defense Acquisition University has embarked on a major new initiative focused on providing significantly improved job performance support to the AT&L workforce. The Learning Asset Integration initiative will allow the workforce anytime/anywhere access to the principal DAU DAU - /dow/ [German Fidonet] D"ummster Anzunehmender User. A German acronym for stupidest imaginable user. From the engineering-slang GAU for Gr"osster Anzunehmender Unfall (worst foreseeable accident), especially of a LNG tank farm plant or something with similarly disastrous learning assets that previously have been available previously only in the classroom or through a controlled formal distance learning course. Career-long Learning DAU provides career-long support through the products and services offered in its Performance Learning Model (PLM (Product Life cycle Management) A comprehensive information system that coordinates all aspects of a product from initial concept to its eventual retirement. Sometimes called the "digital backbone" of a product, it includes the requirements phase, analysis and design ). A major DAU goal is to integrate and leverage all learning assets developed by and available to DAU to maximize the value of all assets to the AT&L workforce. Learning assets range from small objects like a graphic representation of the acquisition framework, to a large online career field community of practice and its body of knowledge. Learning assets cover the spectrum from internal and external sources as follows: * Learning objects and courses developed by DAU's authoring tools * Classroom course presentations and information artifacts artifacts see specimen artifacts. * Continuous learning modules/courses * Rapid deployment training assets * Targeted training assets * Performance support assets * DAU and Department of Defense guidebooks and handbooks * Policy and reference documents (in AT&L Knowledge Sharing repository) * Database of questions and answers ("Ask a Professor" in AT&L Knowledge Sharing repository) * Case studies, best practices, automated templates/tools * Knowledge communities, subtopic sub·top·ic n. One of the divisions into which a main topic may be divided. areas, and contributed assets * Student-developed studies, reports, and lessons learned, * Faculty business cards with identified areas of expertise (from the human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. database) * 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). repository of DoD sharable learning objects. What is LAI LAI Leaf Area Index LAI Lean Advancement Initiative (MIT) LAI Lean Aerospace Initiative LAI Long-Acting Injection LAI Lambda Alpha International (honorary land economics society) and how will it be accomplished? LAI is capturing, organizing, life cycle managing, and providing open access to a broad spectrum of learning assets in a central digital repository or repositories. An architecture of the initial Learning Asset Integration is shown to the right. DAU is in the process of selecting and purchasing a new learning content management system that will include a robust central digital repository. The repository will be configured con·fig·ure tr.v. con·fig·ured, con·fig·ur·ing, con·fig·ures To design, arrange, set up, or shape with a view to specific applications or uses: to accept learning assets in structures/taxonomies that will make it easy for users to access the stored knowledge. The system will have easy-to-use templates for knowledge owners to contribute learning assets and describe them by using meta tags An HTML tag that identifies the contents of a Web page for the search engines. Meta tags are hidden on the page, but they, as well as all the HTML code on a page, can be viewed by selecting View/Source or View/Page Source from the browser menu. . Why is LAI an imperative? DAU believes it must integrate its learning assets to: * Leverage and maximize the value of all DAU products and services * Provide the most accurate and current knowledge available in all DAU products and services * Enrich the activities and content in courses and course modules * Minimize the cost of development and maintenance through asset reuse reuse - Using code developed for one application program in another application. Traditionally achieved using program libraries. Object-oriented programming offers reusability of code via its techniques of inheritance and genericity. * Help AT&L workers to develop career qualifications and competencies * Help AT&L workers to stay current in their profession * Help AT&L workers to do their jobs efficiently and in real time * Help AT&L workers to make smart business decisions * Support DAU's e-Learning vision and support future competency-based training. |
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