The Army’s new online NCO education system is live and operational

Thank you, my friend SSG(P) (Join to see) for posting that the Distributed Leader Course [DLC] "is replacing Structured Self-Development as the online complement to the Army’s in-house noncommissioned officer professional military education program, with six levels corresponding to each of the NCO ranks. It will be rolled out in stages through 2020.

“I think the biggest thing we’re proud about is the fact that the actual DLC course is tied to the brick-and-mortar schoolhouse,” Command Sgt. Maj. Jimmy Sellers, commandant of the U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy, told Army Times in a Jan. 30 phone interview."
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Interesting article thank you!

Renaming a "course" and adding a GPA to it does not fix the problem that we rely too much on "online courses" AT level 1, TARP, Cyber awareness, Derivative classification, the list goes on. These courses don't do anything be degrade readiness. They are either too easy to even bother doing, or so controlled that it runs in the background while you do other work and occasionally switch windows to click "next". Didn't SECARMY say we have too much of this stuff and its getting in the way, like safety briefs and the such?
The bigger problem is despite SSD and NCOES, most the the NCO Corps still cannot write a NCOER properly, can't lead, teach, or do any NCO stuff.
Here's an idea. Don't automatically promote people to SGT and SSG. Make the NCOES courses much longer and actually teach, not just give a 1 hour block of instruction on topics. Cut out all the online training, taskings, and crap that interfere with an NCO being able to train his soldiers in their tasks.
Maybe not have a 300 APFT be the deciding factor on if a Soldier is quality for promotion or not. How many absolute morons have gotten promoted based on their APFT score? A LOT. Can they even tell the difference between there, their, and they're? NOPE
But lets waste money on developing more online courses that our soldiers can just click through.