Finding the Balance Between Schoolhouse and On-the-Job Training

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Air Force Nonrated Technical Training: Selected Topics to Improve Efficiency

“…4 For training wings that share common resources at a base (e.g., classroom space, dormitories), making some training available in this format would additionally reduce pressure on other resources for AFSCs that would still require in-person training (see Part III's discussion on binding resources). However, doing so would first require demonstrating that the reduced cost of initial skills training offsets the greater cost of on-the-job training (Manacapilli et al, 2007), as well as ensuring that such a system is employed with due consideration as to how to handle any students who have to be released from the Air Force or reclassified for failing to complete training. Alternatively, blended learning could reshape the eight-hour instruction day by having students view lectures in multimedia formats before scheduled classroom sessions (i.e., flipped classroom).…”