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Army Replaces Blackboard And Chalk With Bytes And Chips
CRAIG LIDDELL

Once the domain of universities, technology based training (TBT) is being adopted by The Australian Army to train recruits. Flexible, less resource intensive and easy to deploy, TBT is ideal for military purposes. In the case of the Australian Army, "the consequences of failure in training are significant, says Colonel Wayne Sercombe, commandant of the Technology Training Centre. "Through the introduction of TBT and the use of Macromedia technology, we have significantly increased the quality of our training."...

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