MINUTES OF CURRICULUM COMMITTEE MEETING 10 OCTOBER 1985

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• Publication Date: October 11, 1985
• Content Type: MEMO

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11 October 1985
for for Curriculum
SUBJECT: Minutes of Curriculum Committee Meeting
10 October 1985
1. The Curriculum Committee met on 10 October to assess
requirements and resource plans for FY 1986 and to approve
Media Production and CBT priorities for FY 1986.
2. The Curriculum Committee reviewed proposed training
programs and resources for the remaining divisions within the
Office of Training and Education. The review resulted in the
following:
a. Information Systems Training Division.
--New Courses Under Development. In Category one,
ISTD has proposed these new courses: Wang Word Processing for
CTs, Introduction to PC Training, Safe2, and Wang Word
Processing/CRAFT for support to WOTS (this support will
probably require a Systems Administrator and Word Processing
Instructor located at Arlington Hall), AIM, Fundamentals of VM
and Script retain for Category one priority. ISTD is looking
into alternative ways of delivery for these courses, i.e.,
multi-media in a self-study environment. Category two new
courses proposed are BARS, Graphics, IDMS (a new data-base
system to replace GIMS), Advanced PC training, REX,
Tele-communications/Wang. These courses are placed in Category
two primarily because they are contingent upon the development
of such systems within various Agency components. ISTD is also
looking for alternative ways of delivery.
--Deletions. Eight courses are placed in the
Category three priority which essentially translates into high
probability that they will be deleted from the ISTD
curriculum. They are: EXEC-2, PL-1 (CBT course is available
and will be placed in the Self-Study center), NBI Word
Processing (low demand and may disappear this fiscal year),
Introduction to ADP (under review with the prospect of
developing a self-study approach to delivery), RAMIS I and
RAMIS II (available on CBT and may be made available in the
Self-Study Center), Writing JCL (CBT delivery in Self-Study
Center) and the Survey Course (already dropped from the
curriculum).
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--Backlogs. Chief, Information Systems Training
Division reported that where there are significant backlogs
these are soft requirements, i.e., they may disappear when
students are asked to provide evidence that they are qualified
to attend the backlog courses.
--Resources ISTD has n for 13 instructors,
but with the cut they currently only
have nine. They may experience some difficulty in meeting the
full curriculum deadlines but are optimistic that this year at
least few courses will have to be cancelled. The number of
training assistants required and available are on target.
C/ISTD indicated that he is making a major effort to find
alternative ways to deliver his programs of instruction. He is
concerned about the amount of instructor time it takes to
develop alternative systems. His estimate is that one man year
is required for such development.
--The Curriculum Committee agreed that ISTD should
arrange to brief the STOs concerning the proposed changes in
its method of delivering courses.
Language Training Division.
--Language Training Division proposed the
continuation of programs. These will be
the major costs outside of personnel costs for the Language
Training Division. Language School was advised to continue
these. No new courses were identified or reviewed for
deletion.
--The representative from CTD reported that the CTDC
has recently been reviewed. As a result of that review the
CTDC has been reduced in length by two weeks.
--Review. The CTD will look at alternative ways to
deliver the Spouses Orientation Course. It is believed that CT
Spouses need some information but it is not practical to
deliver this training in a five-day course. After this review
is conducted, the Curriculum Committee will look again at
deleting this course from the curriculum. Following a
discussion of the DO reports segment done in CTDC, it was
agreed that there is a need to integrate the reports writing
function into WOTS. CTD will retain the slot and seek to fill
it with a DO officer but WOTS ought to pick up the function.
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10 October 1985
e. Management Administrative Training Division/
Secretarial Training.
Since secretarial training is current responding
to a major new Agency initiative to upgrade training for
secretaries, it was generally agreed that this program must be
responsive to that initiative. Three new courses were
identified in this initiative which are under development.
They are: Office Protocol, Grammar Review, and Intelligence
Issues. MATD intends to drop the following courses:
Reentering the Work Force, Working in CIA, Personal
Transitions, Supervisor and Secretary as a Management Team, and
Telephone Techniques. C/MATD wants to review the entire
administrative training effort in FY 1986 and has asked this be
placed under Curriculum Committee review for October 1986.
C/MATD also reported that two new courses are under development
-- an Agency wide procurement course and a budget course.
f. Communications Training Branch. Courses
identified for review: Grammar Review (there is a good
liklihood that that course can be taught through CBT).
Courses for Review. C/MATD, in conjunction with
C/IT, will examine the entire writing effort of both divisions.
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g. Management Training Branch. This entire
curriculum is currently under review. MTB is conducting a
skills needs survey and a course evaluation. A report is due
in February to the Curriculum Committee with a paper to the ADD
Steering Committee making recommendations regarding changes in
the MTB curriculum. EEO training is also under review. This
review is being accomplished in conjunction with the D/EEO.
Recommendations will be made to the Curriculum Committee
shortly thereafter.
3. The Curriculum Committee finalized Media Production's
priority schedule for the next six months. A copy of this
final priority list is attached.
4. C/CBT developed a priority list with curriculum
committee for the CBT effort during FY 1986. The priorities
are established in rank order as follows:
Proofreading, Writing for the DI,
Financial Systems/
Administration, Operational Records, Introduction to CIA.
5. C/CBT provided cost estimates for CBT development
projects (copy attached). He advised that given his budget,
the ability of his branch to develop all courseware in FY 1986
is not feasible. He will purchase approximately 375K worth of
hardware. Finally, he advised that he wants to receive
approval from the Curriculum Committee to develop a C of C
Learning Center. He will present the proposal in detail during
the 16 October session.
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26 September 1985
MEMORANDUM FOR:
FROM :
SUBJECT:
19867 Video Production List (January-June)
The following is the 1986 Video Production List
(January-June) as determined by the OTE Curriculum Committee on
26 September:
CID - "Personal Meeting" (Wo t KO &atc
LS - "SURS" Videodisc project (pn go,'KJ)
ISTD - "WANG-WANG", or WANG-VM Overview and Connection
(TELECOMM) (,GUV
"Introduction to PC-Mainframe Line" ( Stv2~'- Jah
"SAFE" C FY 4)
"PASSWORK'SECURITY" ( QCt
MATD - "Just Plain English" Grob-r -id-) JVV46"P41 e,(~ojz
IT - "Insurgency"
"Harvard Problem"
"Overview of Military Analysis in CIA"
DOTE - "OTE Briefing Tape"
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CONFIDENTIAL
MEMORANDUM FOR: OTE Curriculum Committee
FROM: C/CBTG
SUBJECT: Estimated Budget Summary for CBTG Major
Projects, Fiscal Years 1986-88
Priority CBT Development Projects (as of 10/85)
Spanish course (finish TICCIT)
Financial Records
Writing for the DI
TOTAL COURSEWARE ESTIMATE
ISTD budget
10) 0)
200
$850
ESTIMATED BUDGET BY FISCAL YEAR,
FY'86-88
Item
Budget_estimate
FISCAL YEAR 1986
Authoring system (incl. VAX 750))
$150
Interactive video CBT lab at OTE
225
SOFTWARE BUDGET (from above)
375
CBTTOTAL BUDGCTs_FY'86
$75)
FISCAL. YEAR 1987
I n r t i v v i d e o CRT 1 .ah-- at HQTRS $7,00 )
SOFTWARE BUDGET (from above) 450)
CBTTOTAL BUDGET1_FY'87 $750
FISCAL YEAR 1988
Equipment upgrade, expansion,
maintenance
HARDWARE SUBTOTAL
$150
SOFTWARE BUDGET (from above) 60)0)
CBTTOTAL BUDGF_"T1_FY' 88 $750
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