News - Category Continuum of Learning

June 10, 2019
Two 364th TRS students at Sheppard AFB earn ACE award

To earn the ACE award, an Airman must maintain a 100% average throughout an entire training course. Two Airmen from the 364th Training Squadron electrical and environmental course were able to remain dedicated to their training and earn this noteworthy award.
June 10, 2019
372d TRS, Det 11: Small unit, big global impact

The 372d Training Squadron, Detachment 11, is a unit specifically dedicated to improving maintenance Airmen skills surrounding the many lethal aircraft assigned to the 355th Wing at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz.
June 10, 2019
“Learning 2030” topic of latest “Developing Mach-21 Airmen” podcast

Episode 11 of Air Education and Training Command’s “Developing Mach-21 Airmen” professional development podcast series, released June 10, dives into learning trends today that will help the command shape the future learning environment of 2030's. On the pod, Dr. Christine Covas-Smith from the HQ,
June 10, 2019
Air Force Basic Military Training continues to fine-tune program with major modernizations

The opportunity for an Airman to leave Basic Military Training fully-qualified on the M4 rifle is just one of the new tactics being implemented as part of the recent changes to curriculum centered on readiness and lethality, airmanship, fitness and the warrior ethos.
June 10, 2019
Air University phases out Blackboard with new learning management system

The Air University Communications Directorate has been hard at work over the past 21 months implementing the Canvas learning management system into all Air University schools to improve student and teacher workflows and the gradual phasing out of its old LMS, Blackboard.
June 7, 2019
SOS students pitch ideas to solve Air Force issues using artificial intelligence

Air University’s Squadron Officer School students pitched their initial ideas on how to better certain processes within the Air Force to the school’s commandant, Col. Wayne Straw and a panel of subject matter experts, May 31, 2019, at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama.
June 6, 2019
Sheppard Airman aces aerospace ground equipment course

Fifteen blocks of instruction. Eighty seven training days. Countless hours of hard work and dedication. This is what it takes to become an Air Force aerospace ground equipment apprentice. Airman 1st Class Cole R. Davidson, an Oregon native and 361st TRS aerospace ground equipment apprentice, did
June 6, 2019
34 officers complete Graduate Medical Education at Keesler AFB

Thirty-four Air Force officers at Keesler AFB, Miss., graduated from the Graduate Medical Education program May 23. The program is available to postgraduate medical students, officers and civilians to help further their knowledge and expertise of a specific medical practices such as internal
June 5, 2019
First Vietnamese student graduates from US Aviation Leadership Program

Capt. Toai Dang, of Vietnam Air Defense-Air Force, became the first Vietnamese student to graduate from the Aviation Leadership Program (ALP) on May 31 at Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi. ALP is a U.S. Air Force-funded program, providing students of partner and developing countries with
June 4, 2019
Technology, AFWERX, helping SF Academy graduates become more lethal, ready

Recognizing the pace of change is accelerating, the Security Forces Academy here has taken full advantage of an opportunity to help field tomorrow’s Air Force faster and smarter by adding innovative technology into its apprentice course to help produce more lethal and ready Airmen.