The ADL Initiative Technical Webinars

One of the ADL Initiative goals is to foster collaboration within the communities of practice and communities of interest for distributed learning. The ADL Initiative Technical Webinar Series is a collection of live webinars and pre-recorded webcasts that spotlight advancements in the field of distributed learning and technology. Below, you will find a list of upcoming technical webinars along with a list of past technical webinars. Read more about each webinar by clicking the title and viewing the descriptions. For live webinars, registration is required and available by clicking the “REGISTER” button.

Note: Live online attendance is not mandatory. Registration ensures the webcast video release will be delivered to your inbox on the release date.

Past Technical Webinars

xAPI Cybersecurity | VIEW VIDEO | DOWNLOAD SLIDES
January 25, 2023
Shelly Blake-Plock, chair of the IEEE LTSC Working Group on xAPI Cybersecurity
Integrated Digital Training Environment for Aircraft Maintenance | VIEW VIDEO | DOWNLOAD SLIDES
October 26, 2022
Petra ten Hove, Rik Bosma, and Dirk Thijssen, Royal Netherlands Aerospace Center
Flavors of xAPI – How to Use xAPI Profiles (xAPI Learning Cohort) | VIEW VIDEO
February 10, 2022
Andy Johnson, Specifications and Standards Manager; Brent Smith, R&D Principal (ADL Initiative, SETA Contractors)
MADLx ROI Dashboard Prototype | VIEW VIDEO | DOWNLOAD SLIDES
January 26, 2022
Biljana Presnall (Jefferson Institute)
An Overview of the DoD's DevSecOps Reference Design and its Intersection with the Learning Technology Warehouse | VIEW VIDEO | DOWNLOAD SLIDES
November 17, 2021
Jason Weiss (Chief Software Officer, DoD), Brent Smith (ADL Initiative, SETA Contractor), and Chad Udell (Float)
Accelerating cmi5 Adoption: Exploring the Conformance Test Suites and Tools | VIEW VIDEO | DOWNLOAD SLIDES
September 21, 2021
Brian Miller, George Vilches (Rustici Software) and Andy Johnson, (ADL Initiative, SETA Contractor)
NATO Standards for ADL in Exercises | VIEW VIDEO | DOWNLOAD SLIDES
September 15, 2021
Aaron Presnall, Ph.D. (Jefferson Institute)
People at the Center: Talent, Education, and Modernization (War on the Rocks) | LISTEN TO PODCAST
August 31, 2021
Maj. Gen. Andrea D. Tullos (Deputy Commander, Air Education and Training Command); BG Charles T. Lombardo (Deputy Commanding General, CAC–T, U.S. Army Combined Arms Center); The Hon. Alan R. Shaffer (Regent, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies and former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment); Moderator: Ryan Evans, (Founder and CEO, War on the Rocks)
Enterprise Learner Record Repository (ELRR) Demo and Quarterly Review | VIEW VIDEO
August 25, 2021
Eric Flamer and Adjoa Adusei-Poku (Deloitte)
Enterprise Course Catalog (ECC) Demo and Quarterly Review | VIEW VIDEO
August 18, 2021
Eric Flamer (Deloitte) and Matt Drayer (edX)
Designing and Testing xAPI Profiles Using the xAPI Profile Server and DATASIM | VIEW VIDEO | DOWNLOAD SLIDES
July 21, 2021
Andy Johnson and Florian Tolk (ADL Initiative, SETA Contractors)
Impactful Specifications and Standards from the Total Learning Architecture
May 18, 2021
Ashley Howell, Andy Johnson, Yihua Liu, Hunter Smith, and Florian Tolk (ADL Initiative, SETA Contractors)
Virtual Reality in Training | VIEW VIDEO | DOWNLOAD SLIDES
April 20, 2021
Nicholas Deslandes (Canadian Department of National Defence Enhanced Performance Innovation Centre)
cmi5 Overview and Way Ahead | VIEW VIDEO | DOWNLOAD SLIDES
March 17, 2021
Brian Miller, Bill McDonald, and Andy Johnson (ADL Initiative, SETA Contractors)
Measuring and Assessing Human Readiness | DOWNLOAD SLIDES
March 9, 2021
Ashley Howell and Hunter Smith (ADL Initiative, SETA Contractors)
ADL-DAU Sandbox: TLA and Competency-Based Learning Demonstration | VIEW VIDEO | DOWNLOAD SLIDES
February 17, 2021
Phil Abi-Najm, Rob Chadwick, Jonathan Poltrack, Brent Smith, Juli Tompkins
Enterprise Course Catalog: 2021 Demo #1 and Open House | VIEW VIDEO | DOWNLOAD SLIDES
January 26, 2021
Brent Smith, Ashley Howell (ADL Initiative), Eric Flamer (Deloitte), Matt Drayer (edX)
Authoring xAPI Profiles with the xAPI Profile Server | VIEW VIDEO
December 16, 2020
Aaron Silvers ; (MakingBetter)(MakingBetter)
Transforming DoD’s Learning Infrastructure | VIEW VIDEO
August 26, 2020
Lora Muchmore, SES (Director, Defense Business Systems Directorate, Office of the Chief Management Officer, Office of the Secretary of Defense); Fred Drummond, SES (Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Education and Training, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Personnel and Readiness)); Jim Seacord, SES (Acting Director, Human Capital Management Office (HCMO), Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Intelligence)); Amy Rogers (Chief Learning Officer for the Civilian Workforce, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel and Readiness)); Sae Schatz, Ph.D. ((Moderator) Director, Advanced Digital Learning (ADL Initiative)
Total Interoperability and Learning Outcomes with NILE | VIEW VIDEO
June 3, 2020
Prasad Ram (CEO and Founder, Gooru) and Michelle Newstadt (Director of Research and Innovation, Gooru)
Data Analytics and Visualization Environment (DAVE) | VIEW VIDEO
March 25, 2020
Shelly Blake-Plock (Yet Analytics)
Data and Training Analytics Simulated Input Modeler (DATASIM) | VIEW VIDEO
March 11, 2020
Shelly Blake-Plock (Yet Analytics)
xAPI Profile Server: Advancing Learning Interoperability Across Systems (Part II) | VIEW VIDEO
January 15, 2020
Aaron Silvers (MakingBetter)
The Danish Army NCO Academy’s Use of Lightweight Simulation Before Field Training | VIEW VIDEO
December 11, 2019
Bob Ludvigsen (Denmark ADL Partnership Center)
xAPI Profile Server: Advancing Learning Interoperability Across Systems (Part I) | VIEW VIDEO
November 30, 2019
Aaron Silvers (MakingBetter)
Past, Present and Future of Education, Training & Simulation within the Dutch Defense | VIEW VIDEO
November 6, 2019
Frank Gaiser and Armand Vincentie (Netherlands ADL Partnership Center)
Will It Work Online? | VIEW VIDEO
September 25, 2019
Cmdr. Geir Isaksen (ADL Initiative - Norway)
Maturing ADL in Exercises (MADLx) | VIEW VIDEO | DOWNLOAD SLIDES
September 18, 2019
Aaron Presnall, Ph.D. (Jefferson Institute)
CHUNK Learning: Curated Heuristic Using a Network of Knowledge | VIEW VIDEO | DOWNLOAD SLIDES
July 31, 2019
Ralucca Gera, Ph.D. & LTC Michelle Isenhour (Naval Postgraduate School)
User-Tailored Privacy for TLA (Parts I & II) | VIEW PART I | VIEW PART II
November 14, 2018 & November 21, 2018
Bart Knijnenburg (Clemson University)
The U.S. National Park Services (NPS) Common Learning Portal | VIEW VIDEO
July 25, 2018
Dale Carpenter, Ryan Jennings, Rebecca Wyatt, and Molly Russell (NPS Workforce Learning and Development- Common Learning Portal Team)

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