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Distance learning in the Canadian military: Quality of life and familial considerations

2025· article· en· W4412351810 on OpenAlex

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational journal of e-learning & distance education · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEducation and Military Integration
Canadian institutionsUniversity of New Brunswick
Fundersnot available
KeywordsQuality (philosophy)PsychologyEpistemologyPhilosophy

Abstract

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The Canadian military is a large organization that relies upon people to accomplish a variety of tasks. While individual experience might differ, the idea that one needs to continue to learn as they advance within an organization is neither unique to the military nor novel. However, the Canadian military differs from most institutions in two ways. First, they design and deliver almost all their own training and education. Second, most training and education tends to occur elsewhere, which increases the time one spends away from home. Given current issues with recruitment and retention within the military, an issue common in many, it is important to consider how increasing the use of distance learning (DL) might contribute to a reduction in time away. Yet, simply increasing DL without recognizing how this might affect family and partner relationships may not be the solution. This paper describes qualitative research focused on understanding individual perceptions regarding increased DL with a particular focus on what this might mean for the quality of life of military members and their families.Keywords: distance learning; Canadian Armed Forces; military pedagogy, family Enseignement à distance : qualité de vie et considérations familiales Résumé : L'militaire canadienne est une grande organisation qui compte sur des personnes pour accomplir diverses tâches. Même si les expériences individuelles peuvent différer, l’idée selon laquelle il faut continuer à apprendre à mesure qu’on progresse au sein d’une organisation n’est ni propre au milieu militaire ni nouvelle. Cependant, l'armée canadienne diffère de la plupart des institutions de deux manières. Premièrement, ils conçoivent et dispensent la quasi-totalité de leur propre formation et éducation. Deuxièmement, la plupart des formations et des études ont tendance à avoir lieu ailleurs, ce qui augmente le temps passé loin de chez soi. Compte tenu des problèmes actuels de recrutement et de rétention au sein de l'armée, mais d'une expérience commune dans de nombreux domaines, il est important d'envisager comment l'augmentation du recours à l'apprentissage à distance (AD) pourrait contribuer à réduire les délais. Pourtant, se contenter d’augmenter la AD sans reconnaître comment cela pourrait affecter les relations familiales et conjugales n’est peut-être pas la solution. Cet article décrit une recherche qualitative axée sur la compréhension des perceptions individuelles concernant l’augmentation du AD, avec un accent particulier sur ce que cela pourrait signifier pour eux et pour la qualité de vie de leurs familles.Mots-clés : enseignement à distance; Forces armées canadiennes; pédagogie Militaire, famille

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.007
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.621
Threshold uncertainty score0.871

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.025
GPT teacher head0.372
Teacher spread0.347 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it