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You can help to transform training. Whether
you represent a procurement agency, a training system developer,
a researcher, or an organization with training needs, there
are opportunities to work with DARWARS.
If
you represent an organization with training needs:
We want to work with you to provide DARWARS Enterprise Solutions
that will help your organization become more effective. We
can assist you to deliver training to distributed students
and monitor their competency development through our unique
tool set. There are also opportunities to acquire fielded
systems, and to co-develop specifications for future functionality
of either individual training systems or the DARWARS Core.
Please let us know how we can help you. Also, we encourage
you to attend our PlugFest! events where we conduct roundtable
discussions on training methodologies and plan future enhancements
to the Core capabilities.
 If
you represent a training system developer or an interested
professional: DARWARS is more than a successful project
– it is also a community of training systems whose members
use the DARWARS Core to leverage their own experiential training
packages. We are looking for partners to join this growing
DARWARS community, and we have made it very easy to join.
The DARWARS Core is designed to be as close to plug-and-play
as possible, so that new systems can be initially integrated
within hours, and tightly compatible within a few days. If
you have an experiential training system, we encourage you
to become a DARWARS Partner, to join in the DARWARS community
with its goal of delivering experienced-based learning environments,
providing the tools to create them, and the refining the infrastructure
to unite them in an effective training marketplace.
After
a successful PlugFest! conference in 2005 in which many new
training systems were added to DARWARS in very short order,
will be holding another PlugFest! in 2006, and we’d
like you to participate. To start now, extensive documentation
is available so that you can begin planning how to integrate
with DARWARS in the coming year. To learn more about becoming
a DARWARS Partner, please contact
us.
Levels
of Integration
Levels of integration have been defined so that the process
of becoming part of DARWARS is a progressive one, where additional
effort brings corresponding benefits. The following five levels
describe the increasing responsibilities of training systems
at successive levels of integration:
Level
1: Basic Launch
Launch a training event, as defined by a Training Package,
from the DARWARS Interface command line. The training system
may require additional user input to initialize and terminate
the session.
Level
2: Good Citizen
Launch and conclude a training session cleanly; that is, without
the need for any information beyond what is supplied in the
command line. Participation in the event is recorded in the
training record for the trainee.
Level
3:Workstation Independence
Record all persistent state information about a user’s
training experience in the DARWAR Core, so that trainees can
move freely from one computer to another for successive training
sessions.
Level
4:Training Interoperability
Read the Objective-Condition-Measure
document, which discusses how training systems get information
from and provide information to the DARWARS training profile
for each user. Measures linked to objectives and conditions
are recorded at the end of a training session. These measures
become available at the start of subsequent training sessions
and support assessment and recommendation of training packages.
Level
5: Training System Adaptation
Adapt the instruction to the particular strengths and weaknesses
expressed in the training profile in order to provide a tailored
training experience for each trainee.
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