Reviewers Needed for Education Content

Our major emphasis this season will be the introduction of online education. This is not some flashy self-run tutorial that was developed and thrown out there for consumption with no further effort. (Anyone who has followed our project knows this is not our style!).

The courses we will offer are interactive, with multiple methods of communication with instructors as well as other students. It is a somewhat labor intensive undertaking. (The development has proven to be extremely labor intensive and has required a great deal of work over at least two seasons now.)

We have run the course with actual students, some of whom have professional backgrounds ranging from adult education to meteorology. Feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. But before we open up these resources in another month or so we have some additional review and benchmarking to do.

We need a group of people willing to "challenge" some of our level one modules so we can get a benchmark of results. After taking the quizzes these reviewers can complete the actual instructional module. In order to be useful these reviewers need to have a Level 1 class within the past 2 years, recreational in nature. (This means 24 hrs, more or less, offered as a first course for the general public. NSP, National Avalanche School, etc do not count. This isn't a judgement of these programs, but their objectives are curricula are not the same.)

You can get more details on the requirements to be a reviewer as well as on the Level 1 program here: http://www.avalanche-center.org/institute/reviewers/

Please pass along this request to anyone you know who meets the requirement of current Level 1 training.