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Emerging Training and Performance
Technologies Department
The Emerging Training and Performance Technologies (ETPT)
Department consists of two sections: Emerging Technologies and Applied
Technologies.
Applied and emerging technologies are dynamically
linked. Real-world problems, challenges and opportunities require solid
solutions. Using emerging technologies in new ways to meet the challenges is
critical to innovation. The ETPT Department brings the synergies of these two
worlds together.
Since 1989, the department has produced training and
performance solutions to meet our customers’ needs. This has ranged from such
training solutions as structured on-the-job training and special skills
qualification creation and validation through instructor-led training and
web-based courseware. Since 2004, the Department has developed and implemented a
model to capture valuable, tacit expert knowledge within organizations and
transformed it into usable content for courseware and just-in-time performance
support. Other performance support tools include the Civilian Career Development
Program and Instructional Systems Design Toolkit/Training Object Repository
Two primary customers, the Ogden Air Logistics Center
Training Office and 309th Maintenance Wing, have been visionary in implementing
new technologies to meet the changing and dynamic needs of their workforce in
both training and performance support tools. The Ogden Air Logistics Center at
Hill AFB, Utah, is a large Air Force maintenance depot. SwRI is entering its
twentieth year on site serving the unique needs of this Air Force client.
Technical strengths of the Department include:
- Expert Knowledge Transformation
- Digital Object Integration
- Solid Instructional Systems Design Usage
- Rapid Development Tool Creation and Usage
Research initiatives focus on:
- Informal Learning
- Collaborative Learning Approaches
- Expert Knowledge Capture Techniques
- Natural Language Processing
- Open Frameworks for Learning Enhancement
To learn more about Training, Simulation and
Performance Improvement capabilities and experience at SwRI, visit
www.tspi.swri.org.
Dr. Doretta Gordon,
Director
Division
Publications
Aerospace Electronics, Systems Engineering and
Training Division
SwRI Technical Divisions
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January 24, 2012
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