The Initiative of Distance E-Training System for Advanced Military Education in Taiwan

The military advanced education can prepare officers to become skillful in war tactics for future combats. Traditionally, this is done through on-campus and correspondence courses. The on-campus education is impossible for line-officer whereas the correspondence program is known to be inefficiency. This paper aims to content the learning purposes of the correspondence program with the learning efficiency of the on-campus education. This paper presents an alternative distance learning architecture, called Distance Learning for Advanced Military Education (DL4AME), to offer the advantages of on-campus education (immediate interaction) be available in the correspondence program (asynchronous learning). The major contribution of this integrated platform is that instructors and learners are no longer constrained by geographical and temporal barriers; they can teach and learn more effectively.