National Maritime Law Enforcement Academy

Let's meet "aLEX", The Academy's

Accessible, Adaptable, Affordable, 

and Advanced Learning Exchange

 

• Accessible:

For managers and supervisors

Time is an ever decreasing commodity, especially when it comes to training. Managers and supervisors are continuously trying to keep up with training standards, requirements, currency, and documentation. All of this is made easy through our aLEX Learning Management System, that allows you to view any of your staff's training record at any time from anywhere. You can see how much time they have spent on a particular course or module, questions that they got correct, where they left off and when they did all this. Most importantly, you can set up alerts to remind them of courses that they need to take to meet a certain requirement, and remind you of those who have not yet met that requirement. 

 

For learners/officers/first responders

Going "mobile" means that learning can keep up with the learner's busy schedule and responsibilities. It means that now officers and first responders can access course material instantly from the convenience of their home, office, or while on patrol, and do so at the time that works best for them. You can learn from your desktop at work, from your laptop at home, on your smartphone while sitting beachside, or on your Mobile Data Terminal on your break time.

 

For trainers/SMEs

The Academy recognizes that our community of professionals is full of Expert Trainers and SME's who want to expand their reach and share their knowledge/curricula with first responders throughout the country (and the world.) Now, through our Advanced Learning Exchange (aLEX), professionals can upload their course material, and upon Academy approval, start to share it with officers, first responders, and public safety professionals, faster and further than they could ever do on their own. By using our Master Trainers and Instructional Designers, trainers/SMEs can convert their material quickly and efficiently to a mobile learning platform, and save thousands of dollars and hours it would have taken to do it otherwise. Most importantly, that can get rewarded for their knowledge and training skills by getting compensated for every one of their classes that are taken online, while retaining the rights to their intellectual property. aLEX is the publisher of your expert instruction!

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• Adaptable:

Training today must keep up with an increase in requirements, and an ability to adapt to the changing environment as the workforce evolves and the job gets more complex. Learning and training programs must be able to adapt to these changes quickly and affordably, without putting any additional stress on the system, the managers, or the officers. The AcademyOnline Program accomplishes this through aLEX, by being our own internal Learning Management System, we can respond to changes quickly for our members. We provide this Learning Management System to our members as individuals (so they can keep track of their own training progress and records) and for agencies that want to utilize this Advanced tool to assist in the management, monitoring, and training records of their personnel.

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• Affordable:

For Agencies and Departments

As mentioned here and throughout the public safety realm, budgets shrink as operational (and training) requirements increase. Agencies are constantly looking at ways to stretch their funds and balance those training efforts. The Academy's Advanced Learning Exchange (aLEX) now provides those managers with a way to lower their training costs, without having to buy an expensive Learning Management System. Agencies can take existing curricula, and through the Academy's Master Trainers and Instructional Designers, convert those courses into mobile training programs.

 

For Individuals

Those officers/first responders/public safety professionals that want to improve and expand their knowledge can use aLEX to get access to thousands of modules that would otherwise be extremely expensive. This is an affordable way to get great training applicable to your job, your future, and your personal goals.

 

For Trainers

For those SMEs and trainers who have developed programs that they want to share with the whole public safety/first responder community, they can upload their course material to aLEX and have it converted into a mobile training program, savings thousands of dollars, time and effort. More importantly, by publishing their training product through aLEX, trainers can make money on a continuous basis without leaving their homes.

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• Advanced:

 Because aLEX is a platform that is owned and operated through the Academy, we can provide the latest and most advanced Learning Management System (LMS) available, while adapting to the needs of our members. aLEX allows you to manage all of your learning, individually as an officer, or as a training manager/supervisor for a whole department. Through one portal, learning is made easy, and the management of that training is made seamless, and effortless... and FREE*. That's right. We provide our LMS free to those agencies that sign-on to have their courses converted and uploaded to the Learning Exchange.

 

More importantly, the delivery tools used by aLEX ensure that the learner experience is the most enjoyable, rewarding, and technologically sound available today. Put simply, this is not just a bunch of videos that you are going to watch... you can do that anywhere. aLEX is focused on true adult learning and skills transfer. This is about advancing training, not degrading it or diminishing it.

 

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• A True Learning Exchange:

As the name suggests, this is a true learning exchange, were people from all around the country (and the world) can come together and share the best courses of instruction from recognized and accomplished professionals that meet and exceed the quality and delivery standards established by aLEX.  

 

For the trainers, this is an opportunity to exchange curricula amongst your peers and colleagues throughout the country, and reaching public safety professionals in every town, city, county, territory, and state.

 

Additionally, aLEX is about Academies exchanging and sharing curricula with Academies. Often departments are limited in their available resources and are making do with what they have and what they have collected over the years with regard to their training programs. Through aLEX, those smaller departments can now access training programs from other agencies all around the country. And by capturing and implementing these best practices, agencies can enhance and improve their training, and the capabilities of their officers.

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