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Accella Learning is currently under contract with the Department of Defense's (DoD) Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) at Ft. Detrick, MD to do research and development in Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS). The ITS will train Army Clinical Specialists and ultimately civilian First Responders to provide care for victims of a nuclear, biological or chemical attack. Click here to see Accella Learning at a White House briefing on February 3, 2005, where TATRC presented Accella's work as one of the most critical projects supporting military healthcare telemedicine efforts.
An intelligent tutoring system is content-independent technology that adapts the content and format of on-line coursework to fit the specific needs of any learner. A completed ITS will modify Army medical training applications to make them "intelligent". In the ITS, simulations or other educational applications will "learn" about users and then customize the training and presentation, making training much more effective.
Using artificial intelligence (AI) and data-cube technologies, the ITS dynamically modifies - on the fly - the content and the coursework to present subject matter in the formats and modalities that fit the individual student's style of learning and depth of knowledge.
The development of a universal ITS technology will greatly enhance the Army's ability to rapidly train and prepare military medical team personnel for biological and chemical warfare. Immediate identification and response to an attack that uses a biological or chemical agent is imperative, yet the wide range of knowledge and experience among Military First Responders creates a problem. In most cases, the medical care team includes staff ranging from the non-clinically-trained clerical triage team to highly specialized physicians. The ITS that Accella is developing for the Army will focus on training each staff level in the emergency response team about the recognition, treatment and management of people afflicted by CDC Category A and B bio-threat agents. This will better enable team members to respond to an attack - rapidly, and in concert.
Click here for a brief demonstration. |
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