When attempting to search out historical information within the domain of education and technology I knew my difficulty was the narrowing down of a suitable topic to which to briefly share my thoughts. In reference of my employment within the Royal Canadian Air Force, I found it befitting to give a historical context to learning and technology from a military vantage point. One of the most influential technologies employed within the United States Armed Forces combining all major elements, Marines, Navy, Air Force, and Army, was SIMNET (Simulator Networking). The project started in 1983 and was employed thoroughly within training in the early 90s. \u201cAs of January 1, 1990, its components consisted of about 260 ground vehicle and aircraft simulators, communications networks, command posts, and data-processing facilities distributed among eleven sites\u201d (Alluisi, 1991, p. 343). Simulators are mostly known to train individuals on a specific job or task(s). A flight simulator is used in the training of a pilot to fly a specific aircraft within all critical and en route phases of flight or an air traffic control tower simulator is used to train air traffic controllers how to control air traffic at a specific airport. The unique and highly advantageous quality of SIMNET was its ability to combine many types of simulators with the purpose of allowing each person involved to get a realistic experience of the entire battle space. There decisions effected others within the entire simulated battle space. This included Land, Sea, and Air elements combined. War zones are chaotic and highly unpredictable spaces in which to conduct specified and calculated missions and operations. By having a multi-simulator environment, instructors could give students real-time experience into how to complete their missions whilst all the other dynamic elements and unpredictable elements were at play. In end, although there were challenges with the system, its main premise opened the door for more relevant and robust multi-simulator technologies to emerge. Many types of those multi-simulator environment technologies are employed within the entire Armed Forces.<\/p>\n
Reference:<\/p>\n
Alluisi, E.A. (1991). The development of technology for collective training: SIMNET, a case history. Human Factors: The Journal of Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 33<\/em>(3), 343-362. doi: 10.1177\/001872089103300308<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When attempting to search out historical information within the domain of education and technology I knew my difficulty was the narrowing down of a suitable topic to which to briefly share my thoughts. In reference of my employment within the Royal Canadian Air Force, I found it befitting to give a historical context to learning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lrnt523"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0114\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0114\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0114\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0114\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0114\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0114\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0114\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0114\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0114\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0114\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0114\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}