Distributed Learning Advanced Technology Development (ADL)

Abstract

Established by Executive Order, with policy oversight by the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense/Readiness (Training Readiness and Strategy), this program leverages emerging learning technologies to provide cost effective training and education to employees and Service members of the Federal Government. The mission of the ADL Initiative is to provide access to the highest-quality education, training, and performance aiding tailored to individual needs and delivered cost-effectively. The ADL Initiative is a DoD program responsible for research and development of distributed and networked learning technologies, to include: online courseware, training games, virtual worlds, and mobile technology. ADL developed the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM, the de facto industry and internationally accepted standard for e-learning interoperability. It is mandated for all Department of Defense (DoD) agencies through DoD Instruction 1322.26. The ADL initiative, working with ADL Partnership Co-Labs and the NATO community, has reduced costs and increased interoperability and sharing of distributed learning content, enabling discovery, retrieval, and reuse. Online course completions in DoD increased to 20.4 million in FY12, and will likely increase in the future. The ADL Initiative enables the migration of distributed learning content to multiple hardware platforms and software applications using the SCORM standard. The ADL Initiative is working in collaboration with the Services, other government agencies, industry, and our international partners to develop the next generation learning architecture that will be platform agnostic and enable the use of new software applications, including mentoring, social media and experiential learning. The research project for the future is Project Aristotle. The first phase is to develop a Personal Assistant for Learning (PAL), a ubiquitous, 24/7 advanced concept research effort that will provide an untethered, tailored training and learning capability that will adapt to fit the learner’s specific strengths and weaknesses, learning style, and level of proficiency. As we look to the future, the PAL will become more sophisticated, intelligent and comprehensive.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2015
Source ID
0603769SE_3_0400_PB_2015
Change Summary Explanation
In FY 2013, reduction was due to sequestration. In FY 2015, reduction was due to Budget Control Act and other program adjustments.
Service Agency Name
DoD Human Resources Activity

Entities

Organizations

  • Defense Human Resources Activity

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Application Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Best Practices
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Distance Learning
  • Education
  • Governments
  • Human Resources
  • Learning
  • Machine Learning
  • National Governments
  • Social Media
  • Standards
  • Training
  • United States Government

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • STEM Education

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