Since the issuance of the Secretary of Defense's stop movement directive in March 2020, Motive has delivered online training and education offerings to hundreds of Army, Marine Corps and joint Special Operations personnel. Responding rapidly to the need for remote training to maintain force readiness in the COVID-19 era, our Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and tech innovators adapted Motive’s Governance (Gov), Transforming Crisis Systems (TCS), and Mastering the Information Environment (MIE) courses to a fully virtual format. Since April, we’ve executed multiple iterations of these courses to soldiers and Marines working from home, quarantined on deployment, or constrained to virtual battle assemblies and drills.
Student and unit leadership feedback has been overwhelming. In written evaluations, 98% of students indicated Motive courses were the most “rigorous and professional” they’d completed in the military, even compared to in-person training. Compared to other online courses, “Motive’s virtual teaching format was the best I’ve experienced,” a majority of students reported, citing our use of collaborative web-based platforms, multi-media content, and intense student-instructor mentorship as differentiators from standard remote learning.
“Motive’s TCS course sets a high bar. While typical military courses rely on cookie-cutter practical exercises and memorization, this course challenges students intellectually at a whole new level. The quality of instructors and content far-exceeds typical military courses. Highly recommend!” – Recent TCS student from a FORSCOM unit.
Key to these results has been Motive’s total integration with the DoD’s Commercial Virtual Remote (CVR) Environment – the “Department’s move towards a large-scale telework posture in response to the COVID-19 national emergency.”[1] Leveraging the new capability that was recently extended to all DoD personnel with the CVR, our courses have served as an opportunity to support the migration of personnel onto the CVR’s key platform — Microsoft Teams. With Teams as Motive’s unified course delivery platform, we help students gain fluency with the program while seamlessly supplementing course presentations with embedded multimedia and interactive technologies.
In a time of technology fatigue and disruptions to normal workflow, embracing DoD-authorized platforms has made it easy for students to connect, engage, learn, and continue their missions without having to toil with complicated software integrations or unauthorized tech that doesn’t sync with approved systems. Motive’s online teaching model simply and securely accommodates students using government or personal computers-- across time-zones and devices -- with zero hiccups or IT issues reported among 100+ students surveyed in the last 60 days. Our dedicated Course Producer is available to assist students in real-time providing them with the support they need to ensure our students are able to focus on participation and learning and not technology.
“I take a lot of online college courses, but Motive's learning experience was amazing compared to other online education experiences I've had using Blackboard and JKO/ Army Learning Management System (ALMS). Motive's course technology actually enhanced learning and was enjoyable to use instead of just being a passive or clunky platform.” — Recent Virtual TCS graduate
Ensuring course technology is seamless enables Motive to stay focused on exceptional and innovative content at a caliber simply unmatched in our industry. Featuring one-of-a-kind tools for affecting multi-domain competition like Motive’s Social Contract Assessment Tool (SCAT) and systems-thinking based conflict analysis methods, our Gov and TCS courses have been regaled by more than 2,000 alum over the past five years who routinely credit capabilities gained in Motive courses for being able to advance specific mission objectives they could not have otherwise. A big part of this, students say, is the extraordinary caliber of our instructors. Just like the in-person version of our signature courses, online versions are instructed by career Foreign Service Officers (FSOs) like Geoff Odlum, former directors of interagency task forces and expert guests including Harvard and Georgetown social scientists like Dr. Susan Bryant and Dr. Morgan Kaplan, NSA analysts, and celebrated military strategists. Experts in their field, trained to impart relevant skills and knowledge, and devoted to student’s learning and missions, Motive instructors are best in class.
“Motive’s Gov course equipped my organization with the appropriate knowledge to identify, and analyze social governance layers affecting strategic competition, ultimately enabling our team to become more effective advisors to our partners in ongoing influence campaigns and interagency programming.” – USG official
We are proud to announce that thanks to our proven training & education results -- both live and online – Motive was awarded a contract in May 2020 to deliver an eight-part training & education series to an Army FORSCOM customer, with four events scheduled for online delivery this summer. In addition to Motive’s signature TCS and Gov courses, our partners Strategic Education International (SEI) and Phoenix Consulting Group will deliver Executive Communications and Advanced Negotiation Training under this contract, adopting best practices Motive has pioneered for virtual military education in the COVID era.
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