Resumen de Computer‐Aided Interactive Video Instruction:: Closing the Gap between Needs and Outcomes in Competency‐Based Leadership, Management and Organizational Development Training
The US Army Organizational Effectiveness Center and School (OECS) is combining two relatively recent training technologies to assist the military in meeting its goal of significantly enhancing the quality of leadership, management and organizational development.
Interactive Video Training (IVT) (the coupling of microcomputers with video tape or video disc presentations to mentor individualized training) appears to be the most cost effective and practicable method of providing carefully monitored and exemplary human resource management experiences geared to each individual trainee's learning needs and characteristics.
Competency‐based training is training specifically designed to enable the student to recognize, demonstrate understanding, self‐assess, skill develop and apply on‐the‐job validated critical competencies or behaviours which distinguish the superior from the average performer. A competency may be any personality characteristic, motivation, knowledge, skill or other specific or even Gestalt behavioural pattern which correlates with job performance.
Experience in US industry and the military suggests that the development of trainers capable of efficient and effective competency‐based instructing can be most practicably achieved by use of well designed and flexible interactive video training.
This paper includes a short treatment of recent literature on the military application of IVT, briefly discusses some critical assumptions underlying human resource management training, the need for more effective instructional techniques in competency skill development, and presents a possible solution being tested at OECS. The opinions expressed in this paper are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the US Army or any of its component activities.
