Interactive Video Training Systems (IFTS): Fruitful Ground for Air Force Exploration?

Abstract

Although computers have been used for conducting training for more than ten years, the Interactive Videodisc Training Systems (IVTS) technology (which uses a totally interactive format with the trainee) is a comparatively new one. Much of the commercial world is moving in the direction of IVTS for their training needs because evidence has shown trainees using IVTS learn their tasks faster, retain the knowledge longer, and the training can be conducted less expensively over the long term. The Air Force has taken a fragmented approach thus far in exploiting the IVTS technology as an Air Force-wide effort. Available IVTS technology, coupled with expected technological advances in the IVTS area, offer great potential in the future as Air Force training dollars dwindle. The Air Force can exploit that potential best through a centralized funding/implementation/management approach at Air Staff and Major Command levels.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA241258

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  • Chandler D. Mapes

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  • Air War College

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  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Anti-Tank Missiles
  • Compact Disks
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer-Aided Instruction
  • Computers
  • Image Processing
  • Instructors
  • Military Personnel
  • Military Training
  • Personnel Management
  • Students
  • Three Dimensional
  • Trainees
  • United States
  • War Colleges

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