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Joint Knowledge Online extends cultural awareness training for U.S. Forces Korea
The Joint Knowledge Development and Distribution Capability (JKDDC) Joint Management Office has used Joint Knowledge Online’s distance learning capability to ensure U.S. Forces Korea’s ability to train incoming personnel on important issues like cultural awareness. Army Spc. Andrew Orillion has the story.
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Narrated by Army Spc. Andrew Orillion, USJFCOM Public Affairs
Featuring: Mike Barnum, JKDDC knowledge management division chief.
Orillion: The Joint Knowledge Development and Distribution Capability, or JKDDC, has expanded the Joint Knowledge Online, or JKO, capability to U.S. Forces Korea, or USFK, by providing cultural awareness and other training for all personnel entering the country, a USFK requirement.
Mike Barnum, JKDDC’s knowledge management division chief, said USFK first approached JKDDC about revising the USFK Theatre Specific Required Training Course and hosting it on JKO in early May 2007.
Barnum: Prior to that they had a distance learning course but they weren’t satisfied with how it was being accessed and tracked. They chose to come to us, Joint Knowledge Online. They liked our capability, our platform; they liked our ability to track their students.
Orillion: JKO officially launched the USFK training May 31, 2007. JKDDC developers and USJFK personnel soon revised the courseware reducing the time from 16 hours to three hours per guidance from Army Gen. Burwell B. Bell, USFK commander.
The training can be accessed on both unclassified and classified systems and is even available at a cyber-café at the airport in South Korea for those who don’t have an opportunity to take the training prior to arrival.
In addition to access via internet portals the training can also be delivered in an offline form if need be.
In January, Carrier Strike Group 11 was on its way to the Korean theater to support exercise Foal Eagle and required the training for its personnel. They requested help from JKO.
Barnum: They could not get the training online prior to the deployment and they were concerned about bandwidth and accessibility from the ships. Within a day we developed CDs to support the carrier strike group and sent them to the ship.
Orillion: To date 8,000 personnel have completed the USFK Theatre Specific Required Training Course on JKO. Barnum estimates that 12,000 temporary duty personnel and 10,000 permanent change of station personnel will complete the training on the JKO site per year. Barnum said the success of this course has prompted other combatant commands, including Pacific Command and Africa Command to look into similar types of online training.
Barnum: Feedback has been very positive. It’s been an outstanding partnership with USFK and Joint Knowledge Online.
Orillion: For more information on this and other ways U.S. Joint Forces Command and JKDDC are 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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