NATO’s e-Learning programme award

The Federal Government Distance Learning Associationinducted NATO’s e-Learning Programme Manager, Paul Thurkettle, into its 2018Hall of Fame.

Each year, this award is presented to an individual who hasmade significant contributions and accomplishments in promoting and developingdistance learning.

"This award shows just how far we have come since westarted this programme," Thurkettle stated. With a small budget and a verysmall team, we are now reaching all of NATO, NATO nations and partners,delivering courses online as well as training and assisting them with thesharing of courses and furthering their national e-Learning development."

Since the creation of Allied Command Transformation in 2003to support NATO’s transformation into the future, NATO’s ability in adoptingtechnology for education and training has greatly improved, with onlinelearning now being used by all NATO education and training facilities as wellas in the support of operations, exercises and academic training.

Introducing a NATO-owned e-Learning delivery capability, aswell as creating an online course production facility to support the NATOCommand and Force Structure, has allowed Allied Command Transformation tosupport over 150,000 users in the delivery of quality online courses.