AFCLC eMentor RFI Questions 2024.docx

AFCLC eMentor Capability Statements/Questions

Please provide your company’s and/or team’s capabilities using Language Schedule 738 II, SIN 382-3 and/or IT Schedule 70, SINs 132-99 and 132-100 to accomplish the requirements of the Air Force Culture and Language Center eMentor Course Delivery and Management Performance Work Statement (PWS).

Please describe in detail how your company and/or team will:

1. Employ a distance Learning Management System (LMS) to deliver synchronous, online foreign language courses via a Virtual School that incorporates an interactive whiteboard, real-time audio and video; classroom management; and a library for syllabi, lesson plans, and slides (PWS: Sections 1.3 – 1.4 and Section 4).

2. Deliver an LMS that provides simultaneous real time audio and video of eMentor instructors, students, and course material with little-to-no lag time, delay or connection failure with redundant power, servers, databases and internet capabilities to eliminate downtime due to system failure and/or power outages (PWS: Section 4).

3. Recruit, develop, and manage a cadre of eMentor instructors who possess language skills equivalent to an Inter-Agency Language Roundtable (ILR) Advanced Professional Proficiency and who can provide language instruction and assessment in the skills of speaking, listening, reading, and writing from ILR skill level 0 through ILR skill level 3 (PWS: Sections 3.4 - 3.5 & Appendix 2).

4. Employ computer algorithms to group students based on language, proficiency level, and availability days, times, and time zones in an effort to enhance the peer-to-peer academic experience and meet student throughput requirements (PWS: Section 5.2).

Please describe in detail your Past Performance in Language Course Management and Delivery:

1. Do you hold, or have you held, a similar contract of this size and scope, providing synchronous online foreign language courses? If yes, please explain the nature and type of contract.

2. Have you developed software platform(s) for the management and delivery of synchronous online language courses? If yes, please explain the nature of the software platform(s).

3. Do you employ or manage, or have you employed or managed a cadre of language instructors, representing a majority of the languages reflected in the eMentor PWS? If yes, please list the languages and describe the nature of instruction.

4. How has your company developed efficiencies and/or innovations in the areas of online course management and delivery? Please describe these efficiencies and/or innovations.

27 Jun 2024