Cameron University and AST Develop Web-based Basic Immigration Law Principle Courseware
Professor Don Aguilar, Chair of Multimedia Design at Cameron University in Lawton, OK is working with Advanced Systems Technology (AST) using funds from a grant supplied by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, a component of the Department of Justice to convert existing text based courseware into web-based training (WBT.) The Basic Immigration Enforcement Training (BIET) pilot program is designed to provide approximately four hours of instruction, practice exercise and testing for the law-enforcement professional, teaching basic immigration law enforcement procedures.
Mr. Aguilar said “Cameron University Multimedia Design students are using AST’s web-based electronic performance support system known as iKe™ to develop BIET training. The BIET pilot program is designed to provide approximately four hours of instruction, practice exercise and testing for the law-enforcement professional. This is a pilot program in teaching basic immigration law enforcement procedures. Although these lessons are very thorough, they only scratch the surface and we hope to be able to go into greater depth in the future.”
“This project supports Cameron’s Capstone and Advanced Problems courses. Capstone is a requirement and the Advanced Problems course is an elective. Three of the original five interns were seniors and two were very talented juniors with a great work ethic. They have developed interactive PE's and test items, final assembly of tutorials and Quality Assurance for the entire project. The courseware features extensive use of narration, level-3 interactivity in the practice exercises, the use of rollovers and click boxes to provide factual information, and the use of .swf files to display graphics in the test questions portion,” said Aguilar.
“iKe enables Cameron interns to collaborate from multiple sites to create SCORM-conformant and 508-compliant training courseware. A rapid prototype of the first lesson was created while students watched Aguilar and a student developer. Then the other interns were able to emulate the look and feel of the approved lesson. The development of this course provided an important opportunity for students to participate in every aspect of the analysis, design and development of a complete web-based training program. The interns were able to experience real life situations and problems encountered by a corporate training development team. Most importantly, the student interns were able to experience ground floor of development with iKe, a browser-based management and development tool that is currently used by Fort Sill. This college experience using iKe will enhance the students standing in the eyes of military training developers and the contractors who offer their service to Training and Doctrine (TRADOC) posts nationwide.” Aguilar said.