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Navy Rewrites Its Course-Writing Software to Enhance Online Distance Education
By MICHAEL ARNONE

Thousands of sailors and officers in the United States Navy will be able to learn technical skills via the Web as the Navy redesigns its course-writing software to embrace new computer standards being developed in part at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The Navy currently trains thousands of sailors and officers each year in courses designed through its Authoring Instructional Materials system, which was developed by the training-systems division at the Naval Air Warfare Center, in Orlando, Fla. The Navy offers more than 400 courses created through the system in classrooms on bases around the world, says Alan D. Litz, manager of the program....

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