[This article was first published in Army Sustainment Professional Bulletin, which was then called Army Logistician, volume 2, number 4 (July–August 1970), pages 16–17.
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Multi-media Individualized Instruction is a new teaching technique being used by the U.S. Army Logistics Management Center (USALMC), Fort Lee, Virginia, to train 22,000 U.S. Army Materiel Command personnel in the use of two automated logistics management systems — ALPHA (AMC Logistics Program Hardcore Automated) and SPEEDEX (System-wide Project for Electronics Equipment at Depots, Extended).
To insure success of the new technique, three objectives were established in developing the instruction. Firstly, it should facilitate implementation of the automated systems in the commodity commands and depots. Secondly, it should train the student as quickly as possible, to lessen the impact of this training requirement on the commands. Thirdly, the instruction should be standard and not subject to interpretation by the various instructors. USALMC determined that no single medium could accomplish this training task; therefore, the multi-media approach was selected. The instruction was planned to allow individuals to progress at their own pace.
The multi-media instructional package consists of printed materials, television tapes, programed instruction texts, reference panels, computer-assisted simulations, and an automated recordkeeping system. With this instructional package, mobile training teams can also present the instruction onsite at the commands planning use of the new automated logistics management systems.
The television tape presentations give the student an overview of each area to be learned. Then by using the programed instruction text the student learns the details of the use of the automated system for each functional area. Next, by means of computer-assisted simulations, the student applies what he has learned and determines the degree of correctness of his decisions from a computer printout.
The student is periodically tested during his course of study. Test responses are fed into the automated recordkeeping system that grades examinations and maintains cumulative records of the student's progress. Should the student become academically deficient, the recordkeeping system automatically alerts the monitoring instructor.
The MMII techniques were first employed in March 1970 and results thus far indicate that training requirements will be met because of the individualized instruction.
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