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Examining United States Air Force Enlisted Professional Military Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Examining United States Air Force Enlisted Professional Military Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic./
Author:	keys, Jason.
Description:	1 online resource (141 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-11, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-11A.
Subject:	Military studies. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798379546038

Examining United States Air Force Enlisted Professional Military Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
keys, Jason.

Examining United States Air Force Enlisted Professional Military Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic. - 1 online resource (141 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-11, Section: A.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--University of Louisiana at Monroe, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

United States Air Force Enlisted Professional Military Education (EPME) was forced to conduct leadership development interventions in a synchronous online format for the first time in the history of the program due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Over 500 instructors across 80 schools globally taught online courses without formalized pre-service or in-service training to prepare them for this new learning environment. Community College of the Air force guidance stated that EPME instructors were not mandated to complete any additional training specific to teaching in online learning environments. This mixed methods research challenged that policy, analyzing the efficacy of these interventions by triangulating data from three studies: surveys of instructors from all levels of EPME, in-depth interviews with and observations of instructors who graduated pre-service education and taught online immediately thereafter, and a comparison of student learning, demographic, and process data from three of the largest Airmen Leadership Schools worldwide. Results indicated instructors generally felt confident and competent teaching online, leveraging their backgrounds as military supervisors, past instructor experience, instructional support specialist help, and modeling the behaviors of pre-service trainers to create engaging online learning environments. Analyses also revealed that there was a statistically significant increase in student grades online when compared to in-person courses and disciplinary releases from schools were eliminated in online courses. This data can be used by military leaders when determining the value of implementing future online EPME courses and examining how to best prepare instructors to teach in online learning environments. Future research should utilize hierarchical linear modeling and regression to examine which variables related to online EPME result in student behavioral changes upon returning to operational work centers and compare the differences in how online and in-person EPME interventions affect a graduate's motivation to transfer learned skills to the work environment.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798379546038Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Military studies.
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Military educationIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

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