United States Coast Guard Explores Potential to Enhance Training With Digital Note-Taking Solution

The United States Coast Guard is known for its impeccable standards and service. To maintain these levels of performance, USCG habitually goes above and beyond the call of duty to seek out new tools and resources that support the ongoing education of its members. In preparation for upgrading its computer system to the Windows Vista operating system and the 2007 Microsoft Office system, USCG began examining ways to gain maximum value from these new technologies. Curriculum Developers at the USCG Training Center in Petaluma, California, undertook an initial test of the Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 digital note-taking program to evaluate how this tool could be used to complement USCG's comprehensive, performance-based training process.