Norway ADL Partnership Lab

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Norwegian Defence University College ©2008

About

The Norway ADL Partnership Laboratory (Norway ADL Partnership Lab), formed in 2008, is located in Oslo, Norway. It is a collaborative project between ADL and the Norwegian Ministry of Defence. The Norwegian Defence University College directs the work of the Norway ADL Partnership Lab. Its mission is to develop ADL capabilities in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Defense.

Mission

The Norwegian Defence ADL Office (NoD ADL-O)/Norway ADL Partnership lab is responsible for the development, procurement, and implementation of ADL products and services within the Norwegian armed forces. The NoD ADL-O runs the Defence Learning Portal and supports all units in the process of implementing an ADL capability.

NoD ADL-O seeks to enhance the armed forces’ ADL capability and quality through Nordic and international cooperation with organisations such as the ADL Initiative, the ADL Partnership Labs and Co-Labs, and North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO Training Group and Nordic Defence ADL counterparts.

Early NoD ADL-O/Norway ADL Partnership projects will involve harmonizing the S1000D technical publication standard into the ADL strategy and initializing a Norwegian CORDRA™ (Content Object Repository Discovery and Registration/Resolution Architecture) implementation. The latter project will be patterned on the ADL-Registry, the U.S. DoD instance of CORDRA.

Lieutenant Commander Geir Isaksen, Acting Director

Lieutenant Commander Geir Isaksen is an ADL Adviser at the Norwegian Defense ADL Centre (NoDADLC), a part of the Norwegian Defense Academy in Oslo. NoDADLC has oversight responsibility for all development, implementation, and acquisition of ADL within Norwegian Defence. LtCdr Isaksen’s main area of focus is development of eLearning, simulator training pedagogy, standards and specifications, Defence ADL regulations, NoD ADL Partnership Lab, and NATO Training Group projects. He is the current Chairman of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Training Group Working Group on Individual Training and Education Developments (NTG WG IT/ED) subgroup.

LtCdr Isaksen has worked in the field of Advanced Distributed Learning since 2001. Before that he served on Norwegian submarines for six years. He graduated from Vestfold University College in 1998 as a Maritime Electro-engineer and has completed further education within adult pedagogy, crew resource management, project management, and learning styles. LtCdr Isaksen also worked at the Norwegian Navy Submarine School as a head instructor in the ULA-class submarine simulator in Bergen for two years.

This ADL Partnership Lab is not sponsored by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness (OUSD P&R) and therefore may not reflect the views and policies of the U.S Government and the ADL Initiative.