Enhancing critical thinking skills for Army leaders using blended-learning methods

The U.S. Army's Command and General Staff School offers its Advanced Operations Course (AOC) for junior field-grade officers using both traditional resident instruction and a model referred to as blended distributed learning (BDL). The BDL course lasts 12 months and uses a variety of informatio...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Straus, Susan G.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Santa Monica, CA RAND 2013©2013, 2013
Series:RAND Corporation research report series
Subjects:
Online Access:
Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The blended distributed learning advanced operations course
  • Satisfaction and perceived learning effectiveness in the blended distributed learning advanced operations course
  • Literature review and case studies of blended distributed learning
  • Conclusions and options for improvement
  • Appendix A: Intermediate-level education advanced operations course blocks, learning objectives, and cognitive levels of learning
  • Appendix B: Psychometric properties of exit and postgraduate surveys
  • Appendix C: Proposed exit survey questions
  • Appendix D: Case study interview questions
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-134)