Joint Individual Augmentee Training Program goes online
U.S. Joint Forces Command’s Joint Warfighting Center hosts the last in-residence Joint Force Headquarters Individual Augmentation Personnel course. Army Spc. Andrew Orillion has the story.
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Narrated by Army Spc. Andrew Orillion, USJFCOM Public Affairs
Featuring: Joint Training Group Chief Scott Shephard
Orillion: U.S. Joint Forces Command’s Joint Warfighting Center hosted the last in-residence Joint Force Headquarters Individual Augmentation Personnel course here, April 17.
The course prepares active duty and reserve military personnel assigned to deploy as individual augmentees in support of joint task forces in U.S. Central Command’s area of responsibility.
The center’s Joint Training Group closed out the four-day program, which will move online in conjunction with the upcoming launch of the Joint Knowledge Development and Distribution Capability’s, or JKDDC enhanced Joint Knowledge Online, or JKO portal at the end of this month.
Scott Shephard, chief of the Joint Training Group, said that the launch of the JKO portal provided the tools needed to move the course online.
Shephard: When JKDDC launches the enhanced JKO portal, we will have the tools needed to facilitate interactivity with subject matter experts, forums, guided discussions and peer-to-peer. With these tools we will replicate the appropriate portions of the course and provide extended training opportunities not available in the residence course.”
Orillion: The online course will still take roughly four days to complete. In addition to tests of the material, reserve component subject matter experts will evaluate student progress. In addition to saving on both travel time and money, the online course will add the benefit of increased flexibility.
Shephard: If you have a residence course where everybody is sitting there in the classroom, you are limited in how much you can tailor the training for individual knowledge levels. By bringing the course online we are enabling the students to adapt the training to their needs.
Orillion: Shephard said another advantage of the online course is the opportunity to use the JKO portal to build an online community in which deployed augmentees and students can stay in contact with each other to help keep the online forums and discussion threads up-to-date and relevant.
Shephard: What we want to do is get folks to make this, if not quite a lifelong effort, at least more than just a four day class of interaction.
Orillion: For Shephard and his staff, the switch to an online course is a step in the evolution of augmentee training.
Shephard: There are a lot of variables but it certainly has the potential to be even more effective, than the in-residence course.
For more information on this and other ways U.S. Joint Forces Command is supporting the warfighter, visit us on the web at www.jfcom.mil.
For U.S. Joint Forces Command, I’m Specialist Andrew Orillion.
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