Creating and Maintaining a Specialized Occupational Force: Marine Information Environment Operations

NPS NRP Executive SummaryCreating and Maintaining a Specialized Occupational Force: Marine Information Environment OperationsMarine Corps Information Operations Center (MCIOC)This research is supported by funding from the Naval Postgraduate School, Naval Research Program (PE 0605853N/2098). https://nps.edu/nrpChief of Naval Operations (CNO)Approved for public release. Distribution is unlimited.

Mobile Learning Technology: Assessment of Distribution Options and Recommendations

NPS NRP Executive SummaryThe transformative Ready Relevant Learning (RRL) effort is transitioning the Navy to a modern, science-of-learning approach. That includes delivering novel training practices and content to the point of need, requiring a true "anytime, anywhere" capability (wireless access) for locations around the world and in CONUS learning centers and schoolhouses. To deliver modern training capability anytime and anywhere, the Navy must be able to support mobile and distributed training. This requires that Sailors have access to both hardware and software that allow them to access training resources outside the classrooms, at the point of need whenever they require it. The study will examine ways to provide Sailors ready access to mobile learning technologies for the delivery of modern training content anytime and anywhere. We will conduct a Business Case Analysis for procuring government-issued devices versus relaxation of policies and determine the cybersecurity safeguards that would allow personal device use. The goal of the study is to identify the best value solution in a form of an effective technology ecosystem with respect to the categories of hardware (laptop, tablet, mobile phone, etc.) and present a roadmap describing how to implement and adopt the best value solution.N1 - Manpower, Personnel, Training & EducationThis research is supported by funding from the Naval Postgraduate School, Naval Research Program (PE 0605853N/2098). https://nps.edu/nrpChief of Naval Operations (CNO)Approved for public release. Distribution is unlimited.

Mobile Learning Technology: Assessment of Distribution Options and Recommendations

NPS NRP Project PosterThe transformative Ready Relevant Learning (RRL) effort is transitioning the Navy to a modern, science-of-learning approach. That includes delivering novel training practices and content to the point of need, requiring a true "anytime, anywhere" capability (wireless access) for locations around the world and in CONUS learning centers and schoolhouses. To deliver modern training capability anytime and anywhere, the Navy must be able to support mobile and distributed training. This requires that Sailors have access to both hardware and software that allow them to access training resources outside the classrooms, at the point of need whenever they require it. The study will examine ways to provide Sailors ready access to mobile learning technologies for the delivery of modern training content anytime and anywhere. We will conduct a Business Case Analysis for procuring government-issued devices versus relaxation of policies and determine the cybersecurity safeguards that would allow personal device use. The goal of the study is to identify the best value solution in a form of an effective technology ecosystem with respect to the categories of hardware (laptop, tablet, mobile phone, etc.) and present a roadmap describing how to implement and adopt the best value solution.N1 - Manpower, Personnel, Training & EducationThis research is supported by funding from the Naval Postgraduate School, Naval Research Program (PE 0605853N/2098). https://nps.edu/nrpChief of Naval Operations (CNO)Approved for public release. Distribution is unlimited.

OFRP Phase Variation in Signature and Destructive Behaviors

NPS NRP Executive SummaryThis study will investigate the destructive behavior surge during the maintenance phase of the Optimized Fleet Response Plan (OFRP). The Culture of Excellence Campaign's Perform to Plan effort will empower warfighting capability by fostering psychological, physical and emotional toughness. To meet this goal, the Navy needs to understand what encourages signature behaviors and reduces destructive behaviors and how these behaviors impact readiness. This study will provide critical insight to encourage signature behaviors and counter destructive behaviors. Researchers will use a mixed-methods, explanatory sequential design to answer the questions: What are the rates of signature and destructive behaviors during phases of OFRP? Do rates differ by command type? How do signature and destructive behaviors impact readiness?N1 - Manpower, Personnel, Training & EducationThis research is supported by funding from the Naval Postgraduate School, Naval Research Program (PE 0605853N/2098). https://nps.edu/nrpChief of Naval Operations (CNO)Approved for public release. Distribution is unlimited.

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Blended Learning Strategies in Navy Training

NPS NRP Project PosterThe Navy needs better ways to train, educate, and assess higher-order cognitive skills, applied proficiencies, and teamwork abilities. Currently, the Navy's approaches to Instructional System Design (ISD) do not adequately address the development of personalization and adaptive training techniques integrated into the future learning continuum concept required by Ready Relevant Learning (RRL). Adopting a blended training environment approach, which combines a plethora of learning approaches empowered by the modern technology solutions, web-based delivery, and traditional classroom methods, could offer a balanced solution to developing modernized, efficient, effective, and adaptable training delivery systems with integrated ability to assess training quality and impact on Fleet readiness and on-the-job performance. This study will evaluate the effectiveness of blended training environments against traditional training methods currently used in Navy rating training. The evaluation will use the existing classroom-based curriculum and learning materials in carefully designed reconfigurations that mix web-based interactive content and in-class activities, coupled with an online student evaluation system. Based on the findings, we will present a roadmap on how to implement, adopt and integrate the most efficient training solution that supports the CNO directed acceleration of RRL and provides lessons learned across all Navy formal accession training.N1 - Manpower, Personnel, Training & EducationThis research is supported by funding from the Naval Postgraduate School, Naval Research Program (PE 0605853N/2098). https://nps.edu/nrpChief of Naval Operations (CNO)Approved for public release. Distribution is unlimited.

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Blended Learning Strategies in Navy Training

NPS NRP Executive SummaryThe Navy needs better ways to train, educate, and assess higher-order cognitive skills, applied proficiencies, and teamwork abilities. Currently, the Navy's approaches to Instructional System Design (ISD) do not adequately address the development of personalization and adaptive training techniques integrated into the future learning continuum concept required by Ready Relevant Learning (RRL). Adopting a blended training environment approach, which combines a plethora of learning approaches empowered by the modern technology solutions, web-based delivery, and traditional classroom methods, could offer a balanced solution to developing modernized, efficient, effective, and adaptable training delivery systems with integrated ability to assess training quality and impact on Fleet readiness and on-the-job performance. This study will evaluate the effectiveness of blended training environments against traditional training methods currently used in Navy rating training. The evaluation will use the existing classroom-based curriculum and learning materials in carefully designed reconfigurations that mix web-based interactive content and in-class activities, coupled with an online student evaluation system. Based on the findings, we will present a roadmap on how to implement, adopt and integrate the most efficient training solution that supports the CNO directed acceleration of RRL and provides lessons learned across all Navy formal accession training.N1 - Manpower, Personnel, Training & EducationThis research is supported by funding from the Naval Postgraduate School, Naval Research Program (PE 0605853N/2098). https://nps.edu/nrpChief of Naval Operations (CNO)Approved for public release. Distribution is unlimited.

Comparison of Women's Policies in Six International Navies

The present study compares policies, programs, and practices relating to women in six international navies. Navies from the following nations are included: the United States, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Information is drawn from answers by representatives of the six international navies to a detailed questionnaire fielded from May through September 2014. The questionnaire covers eight topic areas: General Information; Maternity/Paternity Issues; Deployments; Assignment; Marriage; Career Path & Development; Navy Policy Development; and Other Information. Additionally, project researchers organized and advised three Master’s thesis projects at the Naval Postgraduate School; these are reported separately. Questionnaire responses are catalogued and compared in 23 tables. Results reveal a similar emphasis on family, the flexible workplace, and various initiatives to encourage the recruiting and retention of highly-qualified women. Selected “best practices” are also identified. A preliminary factors model is introduced for future use in identifying and comparing international policies and practices. Recommendations for further research include expanding the study to include more international navies, continuing to evaluate Life-Work Balance and the flexible workplace, refining the factors model for practical application, and comparing the policies of international navies on women’s equity and safety.Office of Women’s Policy (OPNAV N134W), Chief of Naval Personnel, 701 South Courthouse Road (Bldg. 12, Rm. 3R180), Arlington, VA 22204Chief of Naval Personnel, US Department of the Navy.Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited

Organizational Culture and Institutional Theory: A Conversation at the Border

The article of record as published may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/105649261141979

Creating a university technology commercialisation programme: confronting conflicts between learning, discovery and commercialisation goals

Author Kathryn Aten wrote this paper when affiliated with the Naval Postgraduate School.Our knowledge-based society is pressing universities to transform from monastic scholarly enclaves into producers of new technologies and incubators of start-up firms. However, converting scientists’ curiosity-driven discoveries into commercially viable innovations has proven so difficult that observers liken the journey to crossing a ‘Valley of Death’. We conceptualise the challenges of commercialising university inventions in terms of three gaps: the technology discovery gap, the commercialisation gap, and the venture launch gap. We chronicle the inception and evolution of a technology commercialisation programme at the University of Oregon, relating how the university confronted and dealt with the three gaps, and describing the intra-organisational partnerships developed to address them. We find that negotiating the gaps requires assimilation of a technology commercialisation mission into the traditional academic missions of education and scientific discovery. To do this, universities must confront fundamental contradictions between learning, discovery, and commercialisation.National Science Foundation’s Partnerships for Innovation ProgramOregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies InstituteUniversity of Oregon’s Vice President for ResearchLundquist Center for EntrepreneurshipCenter for Law and Entrepreneurshipdeans of the UO business and law school