“Maximizing Human Potential”

1. Management and Training Consultants, Inc. Department of Defense Third Party Education Assessment CCME, 24 February 2013 “Maximizing Human Potential”

2. About MTCI • MTCI is a woman-owned small business that provides superior military, government, and corporate solutions on time and above expectations by teaming with our clients, business partners and community in “Maximizing Human Potential” • MTCI has deep experience educating service members and managing military programs • MTCI has been executing the DoD Third Party Education Assessment (3PEA) program since it began in September 2011

3. Assessment Staff • David Truncellito, Ph.D., 3PEA Program Administrator Over a decade as a university professor, including face-to-face, distance-learning and hybrid instruction of traditional and adult learners • John McCall, M.S., 3PEA Program Assistant Navy veteran, beneficiary of voluntary education, adjunct faculty member, extensive project management experience • Both have been with the program since its inception

4. Assessment Process • Designed to ensure that voluntary education opportunities offered to service members using Tuition Assistance are of the same high quality as the opportunities offered to civilian adult learners • Efficient process to minimize burden on military installations and educational institutions • Standardized, yet flexible and dynamic process • No template for data collection – we will accept information in any format that an entity might already be producing See www.MTCI.us for complete FY13 assessment process

5. Types of Assessments • Installation assessments focus on the relationships between installations and educational institutions that provide instruction on those installations • Educational institution assessments focus on entire institutions and their educational offerings to service members

6. Timeline of Assessment Activity

7. Areas to be Assessed (at a minimum) • Academic partnership of the institution(s) with the service • Needs assessment • The methods whereby academic institutions are invited onto the installation; • Monitoring of institutional compliance with the MOU; • The support provided by various levels of the military for voluntary education; • The degree of congruence among various missions • The degree of consistency of programs for both military and civilian students • Responsiveness and flexibility toward service members • Students’ opportunity to evaluate the learning they receive • Marketing and communications • Institutional outcomes • Resources to support student learning • Faculty qualifications and standards • Policies to evaluate the performance and needs of faculty members • Academic and administrative student services See www.MTCI.us for elaborations

8. FY13 Assessment Schedule and Status

9. Best Practices for Educational Institutions • Minimizing costs for service members • Employing specialized staff members to work with military students • Providing training for faculty who will work with military students and ensuring that faculty have flexibility to handle deployments • Providing a mechanism to determine students’ suitability for distance learning. • Providing training for faculty who teach via distance learning • Teaching at additional locations beyond the education center • Maintaining relationships with education office staffs at installations • Participating in military education conferences and organizations • Participating in self-improvement programs

10. Best Practices for Military Installations • Remaining knowledgeable about the distance-learning landscape • Developing and deploying robust needs assessments • Holding an annual graduation ceremony • Automating the processing of TA • Ensuring that adequate opportunities for advising exist as TA processing becomes automated

11. Management and Training Consultants, Inc. Questions/Discussion Thank You! http://www.MTCI.us “Maximizing Human Potential”