Fasteners/Rivets for Watertight Integrity and Corrosion Prevention in Permanent Application

Intelligent Automation, Inc. (IAI) proposes to design The Instructional Designer's Workbench (IDW), an expert system that incorporates an extensive set of rules and heuristics derived from (1) research literature; (2) the advice of successful, expertinstructors; and (3) policy and parameters set by the Navy. This automated tool will support courseware authors by advising the author on relevant cognitive issues and learning principles and how they should impact design of instruction. An instructionaldesigner will use this tool as he/she considers and implements the design for an instructional program.IDW complements the Instructional Systems Design (ISD) process, advising the designer throughout the stages of the process. As a tool that provides expertise in pedagogy and psychology, IDW will strongly influence the quality and effectiveness ofinstruction in environments where courseware developers may not have a level of theoretical expertise to inform the development decisions they are asked to make. Regardless of the instructional delivery platform (including classrooms), IDW will be designedto answer queries about design, using cognitive learning principles, pedagogy, and relevant examples of instructional intervention.We believe that the potential for commercialization of our product is closely tied to the rapid growth of the computer-based training (CBT) and distance learning markets. As a participant in the Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative sponsored by OSD,we are keenly aware of the explosive growth and interest in distributed learning systems used in a distance-learning context. We believe that the issue of quality becomes critical in a Web environment, where materials