The ISN Training & ADL Competence Center

The ISN’s Training and ADL Competence Center (TACC) is made up of a team of experienced professionals who promote and support technology-enhanced education, primarily in the defense and security sectors. The products and services provided by the TACC team are designed to address the needs of any and all organizations working in these areas worldwide.

To support interoperable technology-based education, the ISN TACC uses and promotes the e-learning standards of the US Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative. Since 1999, the TACC has also led the ADL Working Group, a collection of distributed learning professionals who benefit from joint Swiss-US contributions to the Partnership for Peace Consortium. Finally, the Team, in collaboration with ETH LET, hosts a public learning platform which features a wide range of free defense and security-related content.

Our key activities:

• Research/studies on new learning technologies and applications more
• Training and coaching of e-Learning/ADL production specialists more
• Lead/support of international networks of ADL professionals more
• Evaluation/development of open-source technologies more 

Some past milestones:

2011 Launch of the ILIAS SCORM Editor 4.2 and the Multimedia Slideshow Editor
(Supporting a range of new features to produce high-quality interactive content)

2009 The ISN-led PfP Consortium’s ADL WG celebrates its 10th anniversary
(See the list of ADL WG courses here)

2008 Launch of the new ILIAS SCORM Editor
(Developed by ISN as a component of the open-source ILIAS software)