Program evaluation for U.S. Army Lifelong Learning Centers (LLCs) : extension to Military Operational Speciaty (MOS)-based LLCs / Anna Cianciolo.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Cianciolo, Anna T., author.

Contributor:

U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, issuing body.

Human Resources Research Organization

Series:

Study report (U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences) ; 2008-05.

Study report ; 2008-05

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military education--United States--Evaluation.

Military education.

Continuing education--United States--Evaluation.

Continuing education.

Military education--Evaluation.

Continuing education--Evaluation.

United States.

Genre:

Online resources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 147 pages).

Place of Publication:

Arlington, Virginia : U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 2008.

Summary:

Lifelong Learning Centers (LLCs) comprise a suite of technologies that enable online posting of schoolhouse curricula and collaboration among distributed learners. These technologies connect the field Army to Army schoolhouses, simultaneously improving course currency and supporting training in the field. The impact of lifelong learning on organizational excellence seems clear. However, it is unknown how LLCs promote readiness using educational technology and how LLC effectiveness should be measured. The purpose of this research was to develop a comprehensive, generalizable framework for conceptualizing the effectiveness of LLCs and for capturing the drivers of success. The framework and associated metrics were used to conduct an evaluation of a pilot LLC located at Fort Leavenworth. This evaluation indicated the importance of taking a causal approach. An assessment of outcomes alone would have indicated that the initiative had achieved its goals but would have obscured the fact that some of these goals--teaching and learning effectiveness--were achieved largely independently of the use of learning technologies. The basis of the framework in theory makes it generalizable not only across current and future LLCs, but also across other blended learning initiatives, addressing a gap in the scholarly literature regarding the effectiveness assessment of educational technology.

Notes:

"May 2008."

"Army Project Number 665803D730."

"Performing Organization: Command Performance Research, Inc.; Human Resources Research Organization"--Report documentation page.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 71-74).

Description based on online resource, PDF version; title from title page (DTIC, viewed July 25, 2018).

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified]: HathiTrust Digital Library. 2025.

Other Format:

Print version: Cianciolo, Anna T. Program evaluation for U.S. Army Lifelong Learning Centers (LLCs)

OCLC:

609120738

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