EVERYWHERE VIRTUALLY
Defense Acquisition University has made drastic changes to its of ferings in the face of COVID-19, to bet ter support Army acquisition professionals around the world.
by Shannon Seay and Matthew Sablan
Virginia, and the regional headquarters moved to virtual environments, DAU never lost sight that the Defense Acquisition Workforce was relying on faculty and staff to help them achieve their career milestones and deliver vital support to the warfighter.
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THE MODERN LEARNING PLATFORM “Nothing demonstrates that DAU [is the learning platform of the future] better than the instant respon- siveness faculty and staff had when the pandemic forced us to close physical classrooms and convert all courses and support to virtual offerings,” said DAU President Jim Woolsey.
When the pandemic hit, many academic institu- tions and DOD organizations were left scrambling to modify practices and establish virtual environments. DAU, however, already had a significant online pres- ence with its robust set of acquisition guides and tools,
long with the rest of the world, Defense Acquisition University (DAU) was hit with the full force of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020. As Fort Belvoir,
communities of practice, ACQuipedia, the Defense Acquisition Guidebook and more. “DAU is forward leaning and pushing the boundaries of what we can do with our technology, and we’ll continue to push those boundaries looking for continuous improvement,” said Tim Hamm, DAU’s chief information officer.
As a result of this presence, DAU was able to convert 99 of 126 classroom courses to online learning assets— approximately 85 percent of scheduled courses—within three weeks of closing physical campuses while faculty worked remotely. “We continued to deliver classes,” DAU professor Amy Timmermann said, “but we were delivering material that was not meant to be conveyed in this virtual forum. We had material designed for a traditional classroom learning to deliver that as we best saw fit.”
Beyond leveraging the virtual classroom, DAU launched several new learning opportunities. In total, it ensured that 23,000 students were able to continue their mission-critical learning by doubling the number of webcasts (more than triple the webcasts offered in
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