Learning the Lessons of Leadership Experience: Tools for Interactive Case Method Analysis

Abstract

The Army Excellence in Leadership (AXL) project at the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies is aimed at supporting the acquisition of tacit knowledge of military leadership through the development of compelling filmed narratives of leadership scenarios and interactive training technologies. The approach taken in the AXL project is to leverage the best practices of case-method teaching and use Hollywood storytelling techniques to create fictional case studies (as filmed media) addressing specific leadership issues. In addition to authoring compelling cases for analysis, we have developed software prototypes that instantiate the case-method teaching approach. These systems engage individual trainees in human-computer dialogues that are focused on the leadership issues that have been embedded in the fictional cases.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA433372

Entities

People

  • Andrew S. Gordon
  • Julia M. Kim
  • Randall W. Hill Jr.

Organizations

  • University of Southern California

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Application Software
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Best Practices
  • Case Studies
  • Computers
  • Education
  • Instructors
  • Machine Learning
  • Psychology
  • Schools
  • Students
  • Trainees
  • Training
  • United States
  • United States Military Academy
  • Universities

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).