Training_and_Education_Industry_Forum.docx

ATLZ-AUA

SUBJECT: Comparison of Navy and Army Funding for Credentialing Programs

INFORMATION PAPER

ATZL-AU

23 July 2018

SUBJECT: The Training and Education Industry Forum at Ft Leavenworth

1. Purpose. To provide information on the Training and Education Industry Forum 7-8 AUG 2018 at Ft Leavenworth, KS.

2. Facts:

a. Combined Arms Center and Army University sponsor the Training and Education Industry Forum, 7-8 August 2018 at the Lewis and Clark Center at Ft Leavenworth, KS.

b. Vendor participation is open to both industry and academia. This event provides a Forum for Army education and training leaders to interact with industry representatives and discuss technologies, devices, and services that complement the Army Learning Strategy.

c. Training and Education Industry Forum at Ft Leavenworth focus:

· Industry reps from the areas of learning systems technologies and devices

· Personalized learning platforms to fulfill distributed learning requirements

· Credentialing services that translate institutional learning to an academic program or system

· Evaluation or mechanisms for documentation of credit for various kinds of learning (military to degree, non-academic to academic, etc).

· Credential registry with third party accreditation.

· Broad access, database capacity, software maintenance, and external webpage services to serve as a bridging strategy for a course catalogue.

· Demonstration of the capabilities in DL courseware / products with the intent to encourage schools and centers to innovate how they design learning content.

· Classroom and training simulations; synthetic and virtual.

d. The Training and Education Industry Forum is to enable CAC and ArmyU to frame current and future initiatives and provide vendors an opportunity to engage senior leaders. The exchange of information with industry enables military decision-makers to articulate requirements for education systems of the future and links Army needs to commercially available products. We expect Industry representatives to gain a better understanding of military learning system requirements and for military educators and trainers to establish the framework for the potential use of COTS educational products. The Training and Education Industry Forum serves as market research where industry vendors offer information and demonstrations to enable ArmyU, COEs, and schools to frame requirements based on available technologies and informs to supports the 2019 Education Symposium.

e. On 7 AUG from 1330-1630, ArmyU intends to conduct military information briefing sessions with industry and academia representatives to provide an overview of Army Education focus areas. Discussion is focused on clarifying the training and education concepts presented. Following these briefings, any one-on-one engagements with senior leaders will occur at vendor kiosks on 8 AUG from 0830-1500. The Industry Forum is adjacent to the ILE Branch Day (8 AUG) to better facilitate senior leader travel plans.