The e-learning project for institutional learning

Every large organisation has to deal with institutional and professional learning, especially if it is responsible for the education and training of its own personnel. This paper presents the e-learning model, designed and developed in order to satisfy all potential educational needs in a life long learning perspective and to innovate the institutional learning in a modern working and operational environment within the Italian Army. This model is based on a long experience in the e-learning field gained through the years by the IT-Army Education and Training Command and School of Applied Military Studies - Turin with its Virtual Learning Centre and the University of Turin who work together for the education of the officers. The e-learning model for the Army was developed in a multifunctional way and human centered because the idea is to consider the personnel in both aspects as provider and consumer of educational services. For these reasons a net of several interconnected portals was built up, each of them with a specific goal, mainly based on MOODLE, the Learning Management System largely used by several universities, integrated with several tools. A specific attention was dedicated to define user friendly solutions in order to ease surfing the net and to be used by a wide range of potential users, where all categories of personnel are involved, like Officers, NCOs, Volunteers and civilian staff. In the paper a multidimensional analysis of the model is discussed with particular attention to three different main dimensions: pedagogical, users' perspective and technical.