An adaptive digital flashcard app that integrates with the
Marine Corps eLearning ecosystem
An adaptive digital flashcard app that integrates with the Marine Corps eLearning ecosystem
Marine Adaptive Schoolhouse Training with E-learning Repetition Technology (MASTERY)
- Adaptive digital flashcard app
- Currently integrated with MarineNet
- Enables secure control of your data and content
- Enables instructors to explore course material in greater depth.
- Helps you learn, retain, and review information
In recent pilot testing at US Marine Corps schoolhouses, participants noted the KWYN® MASTERY flashcard system’s ability to improve student preparedness and allow instructors to go deeper into course material. The flashcard app is now fully integrated into MarineNet, part of the Marine Corps’ internal eLearning ecosystem.
Convenient and secure access to the current Marine Corps’ education
Rote learning is critical for developing the foundational knowledge that sailors and marines must acquire to perform effectively in their classifications and occupational specialties. They need intelligent study tools to help them memorize facts and details. Commercial digital flashcards are helpful for civilian education, but they are not secure or integrated with the Marine Corps’ education platform. MASTERY provides military-level cybersecurity with convenient and secure access and integrates with the current Marine Corps’ education software, allowing instructors to easily create content from existing course material.
Adaptability and easy content ingestion
The digital flashcards are supported by Charles River’s KWYN® artificial intelligence (AI) platform, which automatically implements learning science principles to help students better comprehend and retain information. This adaptability, combined with ease of content ingestion, ensures that the system can be tailored to meet the specific needs of each instructor and student, enhancing its effectiveness and usability.
“We’ve worked on adaptive algorithms and making the algorithms flexible so that instructors can bring adaptive training to their courses without having to be experts in psychology to do it. For example, MASTERY decks intelligently fine-tune when a card will appear based on how well the student has learned it in the past.”
Dr. Spencer Lynn
Senior Scientist and Principal Investigator on KWYN® MASTERY
The goal is to accelerate knowledge acquisition and modernize the military’s training and education approaches. In previous phases of the project, the team successfully created a prototype that demonstrated the tool’s functionality.
The funding supports development of a minimum viable product for the Marine Corps, with a focus on addressing bugs and implementing feature enhancements such as multimedia flashcards, performance metrics, and new use cases including homework and quizzes.
In the future, KWYN MASTERY could expand to all Marine Corps schoolhouses, wider Navy training programs, and other military training instances. Charles River Analytics is also able to create adaptive flashcard abilities for commercial customers.
On the job, the KWYN® AI platform augments skills through intelligent guidance and coaching.
Contact us to learn more about KWYN MASTERY and our other adaptive intelligent training capabilities.
This material is based upon work supported by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) under Contract No. N64267-24-C-0013. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of ONR.
