ADL 10 Years - NATO School Today Magazine: Special Edition
We are proud to feature the PfP Consortium ADL Working Group in this Special Edition of the NATO School Today. Over the past ten years, the working group, commonly referred to as the ADL WG, has spearheaded an effort to bring innovative and effective methods, practices and technology to the NATO Alliance and the Partnership for Peace Program to enhance education and training initiatives.
Congratulations to all members and supporters. We hope you enjoy this short chronicle of some of the events of the past ten years and we thank the contributors for offering their perspectives of where we’ve been and where we’re headed.
Technology has changed, but the goals of sharing content and concepts via multinational networks have only grown stronger over the years, as we hope you will see in following articles. Even though we celebrate past successes, the ADL WG must not rest on its laurels. The Alliance and its Partners need our outputs more than ever as the challenges, such as the Afghanistan mission, are some of the largest ever facing NATO.
We urge all members to make sure the work remains relevant, useful, practical and accessible. Plus, the cycle of innovation never ceases. We must continue to embrace, adopt, and extend, new ideas and technologies that deliver better services “anytime, anywhere.” Recent years have shown us that the Web has spawned radically new ideas, practices and behaviors, which we apply to better serve our audience. We should be ready for more changes including enhanced mobile capabilities and cloud computing, to name just a few. Ten years from now, today’s technology may seem quite antiquated, yet rest assured that the spirit of mutual support and benefit with the aim of improving education and training will remain consistent in decade to come. Finally, newcomers are always welcome. We want to expand and grow. To keep up to date on this dedicated, dynamic, and engaging group, be sure to join us online via the PfP Consortium Website at Consortium.pims.org/adl-wg
By Tanja Geiss & Gigi Roman
Guest Editors, NATO School Today &
Representatives of the ADL Office at the NATO School.
In this issue:
3 Commandant’s Greeting
4 Q&A 6 USFJCOM highlights the role of Cooperative Development Teams
8 The impact of the International Relations Security Network (ISN) on ADL
11 A German Bundeswehr perspective
12 NATO School on Collaborative and Distributed Learning 14 Allied Command Transformation discusses their role supporting ADL
16 Timeline: Illustrating the ADL WG journey
18 The ADL Learning Technology Lab takes stock
20 English language training for NATO officers
22 A Romanian perspective on e-Learning
25 The Baltic Defence College takes steps to integrate ADL
26 Future Watch: ACT Joint Education and Training
29 Marketing ADL: A Portuguese perspective
30 Web 2.0 What does it means to education and training now and in the future?
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