Using web-based interactive multimedia to supplement traditional teaching methods: a pilot program for medical training of non-medical personnel

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Authors
Gellman, Gregg W.
Subjects
Blended learning
e-learning
Interactive media
COTS
Training
Simulation
Web-based training
GITMO wounds
Medical training
ADDIE
Adult training
Advisors
Darken, Rudolph P.
Buttrey, Samuel E.
Date of Issue
2005-03
Date
March 2005
Publisher
Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
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Abstract
This thesis proposes that it is possible to create an adjunct to traditional instructor-led training that will reduce training time and costs and at the same time improve performance using commercial off-theshelf (COTS) software. Motivated by the lessons learned following the attack on the USS Cole on October 12, 2000 in which 17 sailors were killed and 42 were wounded, we created a simulator using readily available software in minimal time with zero funding and tested it against small sample sizes of eventual recipients of the training. The simulator, as part of a blended learning solution, was shown to be as effective as traditional instructor-based learning but was conceived at a fraction of the cost and with a significant reduction in total training time. Both of these factors are increasingly being valued in today's reality of increased operational tempo and reduced resources.
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Thesis
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Department
Department of Operations Research
Organization
Naval Postgraduate School
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Format
xx, 144 p. : ill. (some col.)
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.
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