How We Created Nuclear Material Accounting Elearning Modules To Enhance Distance Elearning Courses And Self-study

The goal of the nuclear material accounting (NMA) eLearning modules is to deliver high quality learning objects to supplement the delivery of State System of Accounting for and Control of Nuclear Material (SSAC) courses. At the beginning of 2020 the SSAC course was moved completely on-line and this gave the IAEA trainees the opportunity to “think out of the box”. Instead of lectures and quizzes, the IAEA implemented the method of blended learning called flipped classroom where the aim is to increase student engagement by having the students complete the readings and lectures at home, and work on live problem-solving during class time. Participants were asked to view the NMA lectures and eLearning modules at home; during class time a brief introduction to NMA concepts was conducted and a question and answer session followed. In addition, participants broke out into smaller groups and together with experts, completed interactive on-line reports for the IAEA. The flipped classroom approach provides the traditional in-person benefit of working with safeguards experts, and provide the learners with on demand topic-based learning where they are free to skip the portions of content they already know, and focus on the content that they do not know. Moreover, the on-line resources are available to the participants long after the course has been completed and are easily accessible to anyone with an account to the IAEA learning management system. This paper will describe how engaging eLearning modules were created and implemented that provide topic based learning for NMA concepts.