Introducing a Virtual Emergency Operations Center into a Higher Education Curriculum

Autor/inn/en	Hueston, Harry; Orton, George K., III
Titel	Introducing a Virtual Emergency Operations Center into a Higher Education Curriculum
Quelle	In: Administrative Issues Journal: Connecting Education, Practice, and Research, 9 (2019) 1, S.48-52 (5 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2153-7615
Schlagwörter	College Curriculum; Emergency Programs; Natural Disasters; Crisis Management; Internet; Law Enforcement; Educational Cooperation; Computer Software; Curriculum Implementation; Texas + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hilfsprogramm; Natural disaster; Naturkatastrophe; Krisenmanagement; Gesetzesvollzug; Education; cooperation; Kooperation
Abstract	At West Texas A&M University, faculty members in the Criminal Justice and Emergency Management programs teach students how to deal with man-made and natural disasters. These program courses require students to learn about the National Incident Management Systems (NIMS) in addition to passing certain requirements. Each student must pass NIMS courses 100 and 200 as part of their coursework where students are given the opportunity to work through a table-top exercise involving a natural or man-made disaster. Over the past several years, due to the success of these exercises, one of the criminal justice professors proposed a funding project to create a classroom designed for crisis management exercises in the future. This article conveys important qualitative discussions in two significant areas: how the crisis management classroom was created, designed, and integrated into the emergency operations center for the Texas Panhandle; and how the crisis management classroom was provided with the opportunity to integrate a virtual emergency operations center (VEOCI), making West Texas A&M University the fifth university in the United States to have access to the new virtual management system. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Southwestern Oklahoma State University. 100 Campus Drive PAX 208, Weatherford, OK 73096. Tel: 580-774-7175; Fax: 580-774-7020; e-mail: aij@swosu.edu; Web site: https://aij.scholasticahq.com/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01