Military Review English Edition November-December 2013 | Page 22
Regardless of venue—resident, satellite or distributed learning—all officers receive the same
curriculum. Contractors convert the resident materials into computer-based instruction modules for
access in the Blackboard learning management
system. Such global access is extremely important
to officers who already have a full-time military
and/or civilian job and must complete the common
core and AOC at night, on the weekends, or during
deployments. The distributed learning venue also
makes the Army’s common core portion of the
Command and General Staff Officer Course available to all interested sister service officers and
makes AOC available for the Army’s majors working in interagency fellowships.
Learning at the Operational Edge
The Department of Distance Education’s
common core course—like the resident common
core—has nine blocks of instruction broken into
three phases. Students have a maximum of 18
months to complete the course at their pace, though
many complete it in less than a year. Having all
the course materials accessible online allows flexibility for students deploying in and out of theater,
moving to new assignments, and receiving longterm medical treatment. In addition to reviewing
approximately 100 lessons with 60-plus quizzes,
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