Client:
Lester B. Pearson Canadian International Peacekeeping Centre (PPC), an internationally recognized not-for-profit institution serving individuals and organizations involved in peace operations.
Challenge:
The International Peacekeeping Centre and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police developed a course to train police officers in international peacekeeping - In the Service of Peace: Police in Modern Peacekeeping (ITSOP). The course includes a classroom component and an interactive exercise component called Exercise Blue Buffalo.
PPC wanted to explore the feasibility of delivering the exercise component online, in a distributed environment, with trainees and trainers at multiple geographic locations.
Objective:
Supplement costly face-to-face training exercises with interactive, online courses, and train more individuals more frequently.
To determine how to do this, PPC turned to ThoughtLink to conduct a proof-of-concept project to demonstrate if the Blue Buffalo course could be successfully executed in a distributed environment.
ThoughtLink Solution:
To help PPC determine how to best train online, ThoughtLink created a collaborative environment (i.e., web portal) in which participants trained over the internet, while at their various home/office locations, with PPC role-players.
Value Added:
ThoughtLink's Blue DICE experiment proved that Pearson Peacekeeping Centre could use distributed technologies to teach this course. ThoughtLink converted a collocated training exercise into an interactive online course, with a virtual office and collaboration tools. Find out more: http://www.thoughtlink.com/bluebuff/home.htm.
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