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At the center of DARWARS lies the DARWARS Core,
a technical infrastructure for experiential training that
supports a full suite of technologies for making training
more effective. Before training begins, the DARWARS Core matches
potential training partners for multistudent scenarios based
on objectives and skill, and allows anyone to schedule training
events easily. During a training event, instructors and students
can communicate with each other using built-in voice over
IP, as well as instant message, chat, email, and message boards.
After a training session, the DARWARS Core supports playback,
automated AARs, and other feedback methods to ensure that
experience translates into learning.
The
DARWARS Core is also designed to stimulate new training system
developers into providing their own experiential training
solutions. The tools, components, and Web services built into
the DARWARS Core will make it easier and less costly for developers
to build, deploy, maintain, and update high-impact applications
and training systems.
The
DARWARS Core is built to reduce costs for deploying agencies
as well as lowering barriers to entry. The architecture is
designed to complement, not replace, existing training infrastructures.
It interfaces with the full range of learning management systems
and works with standards such as SCORM and HLA. DARWARS allows
training systems to share information about students' objectives
and progress so that each system can leverage the value of
the others.
In
addition to providing a technological architecture for training
systems, DARWARS pushes the envelope of training science by
providing a general pedagogical framework for simulation-based
instruction – meeting training objectives by providing
students’ experiences in simulations and virtual worlds.
DARWARS trainees find appropriate training courses; choose
ones that match their needs; review their performance; track
their progress; and estimate their readiness for the next
training experience or real-world event. DARWARS trainers
will schedule training sessions based on the training objectives
required of individuals, units, and teams. They will have
access to performance information to enable the development
of new curricula; tools to provide individualized real-time
coaching; and applications that will allow them to conduct
effective After Action Reviews (AAR). DARWARS supports all
of these features in its single, unifying framework of specified
objectives, conditions, and measures.
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