G A Redding

As the ADL Co-Laboratory (ADL Co-Lab) Hub Director, G A is responsible for developing and directing an open and collaborative environment for sharing learning technology research, development, implementation and evaluations across public and private sector domains.  G A's responsibilities also include managing multiple support contracts on behalf of the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative.

G A serves as the Senior Policy Advisor for the ADL Initiative and is the ADL Registry (ADL-R) Registrar (http://adlregistry.adlnet.gov). He has been a Core Team Member since the ADL Initiative’s inception.

G A comes to the Hub from the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) as an Adjunct Research Staff Member.  Prior to IDA, he served in senior government public affairs, multimedia, and training systems management positions handling a broad range of strategic programs.  He has operated at the Office of the Secretary of Defense level in the diplomatic and international affairs arena developing public affairs and military training policies, applying his managerial and technical expertise to a wide range of programs, participating in and contributing to all aspects of military and government education and training programs.

Currently, G A is involved in activities (partial list) encompassing – credentialing standards and protocols (per ISO 17024), intellectual property and data rights management, applied research in learning programs and technologies, S1000D, e-portfolios, Professional Military Education (PME) and Voluntary Education (VolEd) programs, and open source software (OSS) applications.

G A is also the senior editor, SME, and contributor in publishing DoD Instruction 1322.26 “Development, Management, and Delivery of Distributed Learning,” June 16, 2006, and DoD Instruction 1322.20 “Development and Management of Interactive Multimedia Instruction (IMI),” and other related documents.

G A received his Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communications from the University of Denver, a Bachelor of Science from Butler University in Radio and Television, and a Master of Science degree in Business Administration from Indiana State University.