The Air Education and Training Command is working to establish the Enterprise Learning Engineering Center of Excellence, whose overall aim will be to develop airmen and guardians possessing the competencies required by great power competition.
The ELE CoE will be led by a director who will oversee a 24-member cross-functional team comprising learning professionals, researchers, analysts and military leaders, according to an article posted Wednesday on the AETC website.
The center of excellence will be structured to feature interdisciplinary standing teams, which will be focused enduring missions and requirements, and task teams, which will remain established only for a fixed duration to address an emerging mission or task.
The center will employ learning engineering, which AETC Chief Learning Officer Wendy Walsh described as an interdisciplinary approach that seeks to optimize learning experiences and outcomes by applying principles from various domains, including education, engineering, technology, data analytics and cognitive science.
The center will also collaborate with centers of excellence in the Second Air Force and the Nineteenth Air Force as well as other partners, including private industry, to not only ensure learning outcomes but also integrate new technologies and inform potential acquisitions.
The ELE CoE’s core functions include experimenting with and field-testing learning technologies and methods; developing and integrating cross-functional and interdisciplinary learning and training tactics, techniques and procedures; determining capability gaps and science and technology interoperability; and handling learning data management, analysis and integration.